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John
Posted on: Colors Song
May 4, 2007 at 9:56 AMOh, and smithy, yes, it does often appear in girls' names. It doesn't only refer to the color, though. It also has a meaning of youth, and perhaps tenderness. (I'm guessing this is by metaphorical extension, since it's often young buds or shoots that are light green.)
Posted on: Colors Song
May 4, 2007 at 9:54 AM青 (qīng) or 青色 (qīngsè) is hard to get an exact handle on. When it refers to plants, it's usually a light green. In other cases, it can be more more of a blue-green like a teal.
Posted on: Colors Song
May 4, 2007 at 3:54 AMThe singer was not Jenny, but Joy, one of our audio technicians. She sounds great, doesn't she? The music was arranged by David Xu, our head audio technician.
Posted on: Colors Song
May 4, 2007 at 3:53 AMThe new exercises do not currently show X's or checks after you complete the exercise. In the future they will, but right now we're all on vacation. We'll get to that soon.
Posted on: The Glory of Labor
May 1, 2007 at 8:51 AMI slept in until 2pm today. That was my homage to labor.
Posted on: Do you have a menu?
May 1, 2007 at 8:32 AMchineseman, Can you explain the problem a little more clearly? What happens when you try to download them?
Posted on: Encouraging Words
April 28, 2007 at 9:49 AMThe podcast MP3s, dialogue MP3, and PDFs are all online now. Enjoy!
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 13: A Dad Gives Advice to a Broken-Hearted Son
April 27, 2007 at 4:42 AMLantian, We're already working on that. We miss the characters too. I agree that the original photo for today's lesson was pretty ridiculous. I made this new one myself. We'll be experimenting more with the lesson graphic content in the near future.
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 13: A Dad Gives Advice to a Broken-Hearted Son
April 27, 2007 at 4:41 AMDave, The oldest intermediate lessons were recorded before the current level standards were developed. Since then we have decided that they were too close to the Elementary in difficulty and format. With that small of a leap from Elementary to Intermediate, it would take too many levels to make it to Advanced, and we decided that wasn't ideal. Intermediate dialogues are not repeated as many times as Elementary dialogues not only because of the nature of the difficulty level, but also because they're longer and we don't want to bloat the podcast filesize that much. We still repeat many new words several times.
Posted on: Traveling around China
May 4, 2007 at 10:03 AMjweissgerber, You could say: 跟我想象的一样好玩。(跟我想象的一样好玩 (gēn wǒ xiǎngxiàng de yīyang hǎowán)) You can add the 那儿 to the front or leave it off. You can also see Chinese people using this exact sentence if you follow this link.