User Comments - John
John
Posted on: Holiday Specials and New Friends
December 12, 2007 at 2:50 AMherma48852, That's great to hear! Welcome to the club. BTW, everyone, Aggie and Vera are now on the About page. We'll see what we can do about getting more glamorous photos for everyone. :)
Posted on: Holiday Specials and New Friends
December 11, 2007 at 1:58 AMhenning, Aggie and Vera are going in soon. They didn't get their photos and bios to me in time! :P
Posted on: Holiday Specials and New Friends
December 10, 2007 at 10:14 AMHenning, Ha ha, that is actually a new picture of me! I do agree, though, that I'm not at my most "dashing" in it. I think Connie looks cute in that picture, though!
Posted on: 中国八大菜系
December 8, 2007 at 5:30 AMuser44238, The rollover translations in the Advanced lessons are machine translations. For that reason, we cannot guarantee 100% accuracy. We had enough users begging us to leave them on anyway that we decided to do so. We'll be putting up a "warning" about that soon.
Posted on: 中国八大菜系
December 7, 2007 at 7:06 AMchittywangwang, 这次我好像没说错！ 但其实我打错了一个字：我们的音效主管的名字应该是“徐洲”。Jenny让我意识到这个错误。不好意思，徐洲！
Posted on: Little Friends
December 7, 2007 at 3:19 AMsagarika, You can say: 我不是三十岁。(Wǒ bù shì sānshí suì.) I am not 30 years old. The other sentence you wrote is not wrong, however. Let's take a look at it: 我没有三十岁。(Wǒ méiyǒu sānshí suì) I am not yet 30 years old. In this case, the 没有 (méiyǒu) means something like "to not yet have." So if you're not 30 years old because you're younger than 30, you can use this as well. It might sound like you're whining that people think you look older than you really are, though. :)
Posted on: Death by Ninja
December 7, 2007 at 3:13 AMxiaohu, You are totally right, and we're already working on organizing the various series better. It's coming!
Posted on: 中国八大菜系
December 7, 2007 at 3:05 AMEven if you're a Newbie, you should be able to tell what's going on in this lesson just from the sound effects. 这次徐州（我们的音效主管）真的做得不错！
Posted on: Teacher Salary and Perks
December 5, 2007 at 7:02 AMchittywangwang, What you say has some truth to it, but in the 4 years I taught in China (mostly in Hangzhou), I didn't have problem with contracts or with staff refusing to talk to me in English. So it all depends...
Posted on: Night Cat
December 19, 2007 at 8:03 AMI'm glad you guys enjoyed this one! The "sleep late" tip was gained from years of teaching English to Chinese students back in the day. It could be very confusing for both of us at time.