User Comments - Mags M
Mags M
Posted on: Left My Cell Phone in a Taxi
August 25, 2013 at 4:59 PMI just can't believe the taxi diver offered to bring it round himself and didn't insist she go to the taxi rank/office/whatever to pick it up. Is this realistic?
Posted on: Upgrading to Business Class
August 2, 2013 at 6:22 AMThis couple sound a bit fishy. Why did they not think ahead and get a class with decent seating when they bought their tickets? Would they have to pay for the upgrade or are they just scrounging? And poor unpregnant man. Surely his reason is just as valid.
Posted on: Put Back the Weights
July 22, 2013 at 5:36 PMCould that new word/character 'jiong' be used instead of 'dao mei' in the dialogue? Are there many new characters being created in Chinese today?
Posted on: For the Kids
June 2, 2013 at 4:29 PMDo grandparents not have jobs then?
Posted on: An Urgent Call to the Embassy
March 13, 2012 at 9:23 PMIn the news report shouldn't it be "many areas on North Island and the northern part of South Island were affected" or did I misunderstand it.
Posted on: Mental Health Counseling
February 26, 2012 at 6:33 PMGoing by the usual tenor of husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend relationship Chinese Pod lessons I'd say there were a good few men ringing up for help with domestic violence issues. In newspapers in the UK and Italy (the two countries I have experience of) women are usually shown as the victims and men as the perpetrators of violence. It seems that in this lesson too the default mode was chosen. Not much attention is given to men who suffer violence both physical and psychological at home. And when it is, it's normally seen as quite a humorous issue.
Posted on: Whose Home for Chinese New Year?
January 23, 2012 at 10:06 AMI can't believe this is a problem. Did I miss something in the lesson. Why don't these people just go their separate ways at New Year and get back together afterwards? Why do they have to live in each other's pockets? And surely an ageing or ill parent would much prefer to see one of the couple rather than neither.
Posted on: Matchmaking in the Park
December 22, 2011 at 4:21 PMWhat I was really curious about was the sound of the voice rather than how old "middle aged" is. I'd just like Jenny and Connie etc to think of their mums and dads (presumably the same age as the parents in today's lesson). Do they speak like that?
Posted on: Matchmaking in the Park
December 22, 2011 at 10:03 AMI noticed in this lesson and in other lessons featuring people presumably in their mid-fifties that they sound like octogenarians. In this one the mum actually sounded like she'd pushed herself down to the park in her bathchair to scout for a husband for her grandaughter. I think this is an important issue. Should middle-aged learners of Chinese be aiming to achieve a feeble tremor in their vioice and to lower the pitch (women)/higher the pitch (men) in order to sound authentic?
Posted on: Teeth Cleaning
September 9, 2013 at 6:12 AMI have my teeth cleaned not by the dentist but by the hygienist working in the same surgery. How do you say "hygienist" in Chinese?