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RJ
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 21, 2009 at 12:48 PMChangye
It has always amazed me that counterfit money is sent to relatives in the next world. I would be one mad relative if someone sent me money I couldnt spend. When in China I just write a check and burn that. So far, none have been cashed. ;-)
Posted on: Funny Business 4 -- Farewell, Xiao Zhao
August 21, 2009 at 10:57 AMyes, Paul is right. The last 3 weeks or so the volume of the individual sentences on the dialouge page and the expansion sentences page seems to have suddenly dropped off a cliff. They are very much lower than they were previously. Managable, but I did notice a change.
Posted on: Measure Words for Food
August 21, 2009 at 10:46 AM枚mei2 and 颗 ke1 seem to be measure words for pearls. I have no idea which one is more popular.
Maybe Changye will look it up in his MW dictionary. :-)
一串珍珠 yi chuan zhenzhu - a string of pearls?
Posted on: 国产大片
August 19, 2009 at 10:00 AMGo_manly
yes, sorry, I was thinking of the english on the dialogue page of the Advanced lessons. This was added more recently. The pdf's should all have it.
Posted on: 国产大片
August 19, 2009 at 9:22 AMgo_manly
I believe english in Advanced lesson pdf's was a later development. This is an old lesson.
Posted on: Earlier and Later than Expected: 才and 就
August 19, 2009 at 9:12 AMThanks Matt, looking forward to it. I guess I ran out of patience just one week too soon. I do agree with you about the sentences being expansions themselves, but maybe you can come up with a surprise. Eventually.
Pete
I wouldnt shut the Sat alarm clock off just yet, but it sounds like there is hope :-)
Posted on: Earlier and Later than Expected: 才and 就
August 18, 2009 at 10:42 AMgo manly
thank you for the effort and hard work but I really want to see cpod create a pdf. I am disappointed in their lack of professionalism in two ways.
1. they dont keep their promises, if you are not going to do something - dont say that you are.
2. This seems to be a technical "challenge" for them. They should be embarassed. If Maria Schriver sponsered an IT team - this would be the one.
I was hoping for more goodies such as expansion sentences or exercises along with the pdf if we ever get one. QW has evolved to be a lesson in its own right - not just entertatinment. They have done a great job and the material is so worth studying. This is why we need a pdf. Its a shame that the weak link lies in the very area where a web based business should have its greatest strength.OK, Im done, I will never bring this up again but come on guys.
Posted on: SKRITTER!!!
August 16, 2009 at 9:46 AMI use skritter and like it very much. Looking forward to seeing it on cpod.
@thinkbuddha
if I understand correctly, it will be only the "scratchpad" function from skritter that gets integrated. This would allow you to enter any characters of your choice to practice. Still a good deal.
Posted on: 把 Humbug
August 22, 2009 at 12:47 PMHenning
Ok, my official salute. Its been a long hard campaign but here it is, not only a pdf but we even got an extra surprise in the form of a dialogue page. Very nice. My thanks to Pete for disrupting his weekends to valiantly, with dedication and love, post the sentences week in and week out in the interim. This was not an easy task, especially when HAL (the cpod computer), became self aware after a recent AMS upgrade, and insisted on releasing all new lessons at midnight. Pete had to limit his friday night escapades to partying with monks to insure a punctual rise to duty on Sat morning. Well HAL is feeling better now and Pete can go back to his usual diet of veggies and top shelf whiskey as we all enjoy the new "sexier" QW. Cpod continues to get better every day. Its in that spirit that I ask:
So now - where's skritter? :-)