User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu

"Oh jeez, now Im talking to myself"

...hehe, welcome to the club RJ. You get used to it after a while. ;)

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

等一下, found it mate. The Chinese title is "卑鄙的我"

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

Can't find the Chinese title for despicable me, but here are the titles in other languages which may give you something to work with:

Mi villano favorito Argentina / Peru (imdb display title)

Гадкий я Russia

Çilgin hirsiz Turkey (imdb display title) (Turkish title)

Aulinn ég Iceland (dubbed version)

Cattivissimo me Italy

Dumma mej Sweden (imdb display title)

Ganuv Al Hayareach Israel (Hebrew title)

Gru Hungary (imdb display title)

Gru - Mi villano favorito Spain

Gru - O Maldisposto Portugal (imdb display title)

Grusomme meg Norway

Grusomme mig Denmark

Ich - Einfach unverbesserlich Germany

Kako je Gru ukrao mjesec Croatia

Meu Malvado Favorito Brazil

Moi, moche et méchant France

Verschrikkelijke ikke en de rest kan stikke Netherlands (dubbed version)

If I can't find the Chinese title, sometimes the Japanese title could be the next best thing, particularly if it is all Kanji. This one isn't all Kanji though:

怪盗グルーの月泥棒

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

In French it's "Le cheval sauvage de Shangri-La" and I just found a pic [but be careful clicking on the chinese images of this..I think the site I clicked on had some malware] which suggests the Mandarin title is:

命悬800公里

..which I guess is referring to his sister's life hanging in the balance and depending on his 800km journey to Kunming being successful.

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

Yeah, you do see Kunming....my guess is it was probably for about 10 or 15 minutes zuoyou.

hehe, so you did end up watching Karate Kid then...Cool..glad you liked it. Yeah, the bit up the mountain was pretty alright.

Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu

click on tools...then under vocab tab which should by default be the one open, click on flashcards [ if you have not previously clicked save vocab from vocab tabs in lessons, you will need to do that in order to check out how it works]....a flash card should appear on your screen...when you're ready to see the answer and check you are correct just click on the card. You then click down the bottom whether you got it right or not and then click on the arrow to the right to proceed to the next card. You can choose which set of vocab you want to test and also choose what you want to test...hanzi, pinyin, audio, etc.

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

No, it's a much more recent [2009] low budget Chinese film about a young guy from Shangri-la who travels to Kunming [ I thought it might interest you] mostly by running there barefoot to attend a race in the hope of winning the prize money so he could pay for the medical care needed to save his younger sister:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430641/plotsummary

yes, I am now Kwai Chang Kaine emerging from the Shaolin temple, having acquired the pebble. A bit of Spock always help...gratefully accepted.

Posted on: An Introduction to Chengyu

RJ,

When I fist read the comment I hadn't checked the dialogue tab and thought that maybe QW had added a new function like on the other lessons, where you can save all vocab with one click [ at the bottom of the vocab tab]. Yeah, once I saw the vocab tab I realised that it meant the whole chengyu could be saved as one chunk of vocab. This has always been the case that multi-character words and even chengyu can be saved in this manner, such as in this lesson:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/computer-problems-and-tech-support/dialogue

..and I guess I was just pointing out that it's possible to do that in previous lessons also, but I agree, it's very useful to be able to do so, and also agree CPod should be congratulated for making this possible.

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

ah, you've just reminded me....there was some hitch hiking in the film " Wild Horse from Shangri-la"

Posted on: Can't Get a Taxi

lol. Another great tal anecdote. Love it...thanks mate :)