User Comments - Right-Wingnut

Posted on: Class Elections

What is a cadre? I've never heard this word before.

Posted on: Sales Part 3: Handling Difficult Leads

In the 4th line Expansion sentence, the Pinyin for 决定 shows 'decision' instead of 'juédìng'. The is true of the mouseover definition on the Dialog page, and also the printed version of the Expansion sentences.

Posted on: Really Good Food

Correct. What could be causing the problem is that de is unstressed, zhè is stressed. So de's vowel sound is a little indistinct - zhe has the proper sound. So perhaps you should be using zhè as the model rather than de.

I also found when I was learning the sounds that the same sound often seemed to sound different for different tones. I guess I've gotten used to the language as I don't notice that any more.

One thing I've always noticed is that for some speakers w sounds to me more like a v. But whenever I ask them about this, they insist they a saying w.

Posted on: Interviews: Obama or Romney?

In the second Expansion sentence, the Pinyon for 感情 is shown as 'feelings', instead of 'gǎnqíng'.This is the case both in the printable version, and the mouseover definition on the Expansion page.

Posted on: The Brave Little Tailor (Part 1)

In the PDF, in the 7th line of the dialog, the Pinyin for 决定 shows 'decision' instead of 'juédìng'. The is also true of the mouseover definition on the Dialog page.

Posted on: A Present from Santa Claus

I wouldn't have noticed this unless I was looking for it.

But christmas needs a bit of spicing up. It really is the worst time of the year, having to deal with two different BS stories, and seeing relatives who you wouldn't choose to see under any other circumstances.

Lets put the sex back in christmas.

Posted on: No TP

Why is toilet paper abbreviated in the heading? I've never heard it referred to as TP.

Posted on: Really Good Food

I've played the dialog multiple times, and I don't hear what you are hearing.

Both the dialog file and the online line-by-line dialog sound the same as you describe in the pronunciation guide.

Posted on: Homeschooling

I'm not sure what qualifications you earn at the end of high school in the US. But I wonder how home-schooled students perform in comparison to the rest?

I don't mean one-off cases, I'm interested in a comparison of averages. (It might be interesting that YOU were homeschooled and are now a doctor, but I suspect that this is the exception).

Posted on: Earlier and Later than Expected: 才and 就

Chinese Pod only started producing PDFs from QW112.

If you check out those early PDFs (1-67) you will find there is nothing in them. CPod stated more than 3 years that they were going to backdate the PDFs, but they haven't done even one.