User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: Asking for Leave

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Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac

Thanks for that explanation Pete.I had before wondered at what seemed like a lack of punctuation and was surprised this did not lead to confusion.I presumed it was not such a big deal at my level when sentences are pretty simple but wondered how it would go at more advanced levels.I have also pondered how many Chinese words are composed of 2 or more characters and how the words do not seem to be separated by spaces.Once again ,at my level when things are pretty simple I have not noticed this being a problem,but have wondered about clashes in more advanced text.What I mean is where a character could belong either to the word before or the word after.Does this happen very often? I suppose context is relied on to give it away.I guess it is probably also taken advantage of in advertising/puns?

Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac

、、谢谢你们 pinkjeans 和 Pete

"that separates things, and not phrases?"

btw I've never used this kind of comma before and am not sure what you mean by the above.Are there any examples of when to use this instead of a normal comma?

Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜

ooh right.Thanks Connie;I'd missed that in my rush.

Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜

Pete,

Thanks.Fair enough.I had looked at some older media lessons and they all seemed to have a lot more lines ,so I was wondering if there was a glitch somewhere.But I realise this is for very advanced users mainly.Cheers.

Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac

你/=，

That's not working for me Pete.What am I missing here?

btw you're doing a sterling job answering all Poddies questions.Just like your marathon running you're showing some staying power here.Jiayou !

Posted on: “混在中国”最字榜

Is there meant to be only one line on the dialogue tab?

Posted on: Where are you from?

stevegeerligs,

No worries mate.I just remembered that CPod made a mini website prior to the Beijing Olympics that ,amongst other things,gave the audio pronunciation of all the countries.I'm at work at the moment so can't confirm that they've kept it all there [need plugins] but hopefully they'll keep the site up indefinitely.The address is:

http://chinesepod.com/olympics/

or you could just click here.

ps You should come join the wushu interest group.Which martial art uniform are you wearing in your avatar?

Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac

Talking of rabbits reminds me of just how up to speed we Aussies are on Chinese history and culture...

Posted on: Birth by Chinese Zodiac

dragon,tiger..these large animals are lucky,but what about poor mum...