User Comments - John
John
Posted on: Counterfeit Money
October 30, 2008 at 4:01 AMChangye,
Ha ha! Too funny! Thanks for sharing. (You don't have a link to the article, do you?)
Someone should make a "funny but true" Chinese news website...
Posted on: Counterfeit Money
October 30, 2008 at 4:00 AMmikenotinjubei,
OK, I get you. Yeah, I have to agree... our expansion sentence writers (Jiaojie and Connie) do a great job. Thanks for calling attention to these silent heroes! :)
Posted on: Counterfeit Money
October 30, 2008 at 3:18 AMmikenotinjubei,
People really do talk that way! It's not just "having fun"...
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Beijing
October 29, 2008 at 1:48 AMmikenotinjubei,
Grammar intense lessons, huh? I'm not sure which those would be... I'm much more aware of "grammar light" lessons than "grammar intense" lessons.
Posted on: Interview with Cassie
October 27, 2008 at 4:38 AMIt was great finally talking to Cassie. We look forward to meeting her in person someday.
I've been to Fuzhou too, and it was a very pleasant stay. The people were so friendly!
Posted on: Triumph of the Rat
October 26, 2008 at 3:25 AMRJ,
I understand your frustrations, but it's not that we're being stubborn. Allow me to quote myself from the comments of the last story:
Right now the videos are missing some of the features of full lessons: dialogue tab, full transcript in the PDF, difficulty level, etc. This is partly due to an insufficiently flexible backend production system. We're finishing up an upgrade now (it's 80% done), which will allow full support for things like transcripts.
Posted on: Triumph of the Rat
October 25, 2008 at 3:41 PM对牛弹琴 is indeed a cool chengyu (actually one of the first I ever learned), but as far as I know, there's no connection here.
Posted on: Google vs. Baidu
October 21, 2008 at 5:21 AMjoannah,
Thanks for pointing that out about Baigoogledu. I didn't realize. Firefox reports this:
Of the 7 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2008-10-15, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2008-10-04.
Malicious software includes 2 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 6 new processes on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including sexwh321.3322.org, wg171.com.
1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including sexwh321.3322.org.
It's a shame... we wouldn't have mentioned the site if we had known about this, but since we mention it in the podcast, I'll leave up the link with a warning.
Posted on: Google vs. Baidu
October 21, 2008 at 5:17 AMchangye,
This is a case of dictionaries not keeping up with spoken Chinese. It's definitely "下载" (xia4 zai3), regardless of what makes more sense based on character semantics. (Those don't really hold much weight with the people.)
Posted on: My Foreign teacher
November 1, 2008 at 7:29 AMHere's the transcript. (This one is dedicated to RJ!)