User Comments - bababardwan

Posted on: This Week's Lessons and Introducing Sarah

hey Changye,

I note Praxis have a job going at JapanesePod.com that they're setting up.I would have thought with your excellent linguistic knowledge [and you're living in China]  that you'd be a perfect candidate.Then we'd all get to hear you as well.

Posted on: This Week's Lessons and Introducing Sarah

ewong,

Halloween is discussed in the discussion tab of the Newbie lesson "A ghost outside" found here.

And Calkins did another great job when he discussed Halloween in his group "Vocab picture of the day" here.

Posted on: Stopped at the Gate

Another great intro[lol;the tunnel vision act is an extended version of the dense foreigner act],but it forgets to mention another great method as seen in the film Schindler's list.This is where you start scratching your head like you've got lice.No guard wants to come near you then.Worked in the movie anyway...

Posted on: My Foreign teacher

tvan,

I wasn't interested in learning any profanity per se,but thought the stories behind them would be funny.But fair enough mate.The comment was funny anyhow,so thanks for the laugh.

Posted on: My Foreign teacher

tvan,

re: "I've also learned the hard way that some phrases used by Chinese truckers may not be appropriate in every social situation"

I'll bet.That's very funny.I'd love to hear some of those stories sometime.

I also loved the visuals for the eyes and stature.The video cues on this were so good it made it so much easier to follow ,even if I didn't know all the words.

Posted on: Good, Bad and Otherwise

kimiik,

Great pick up on the mamahuhu in the videos !

Posted on: Battling Internet Addiction

joannah,

cool;I can relate to that.It's exactly what I would do given the opportunity.

Posted on: This Week's Lessons and Introducing Sarah

Welcome Sarah [ Su1xiao3ya3 ].

This was the funniest N&F yet,esp.Jenny's "I'm addressing our users" in reference to the drinking question.I don't think you'd catch John out like that very often...have to get up pretty early in the morning.

I am really looking forward to blue Smurf Jenny.What a good sport.

Thanks Cassielin for the Chinese smurf video.How 可爱

Posted on: This Week's Lessons and Introducing Sarah

sashe46,

Forgive my ignorance ,but curious to know what "rutt-row" means ?

Posted on: Good, Bad and Otherwise

I found Scottish [and sometimes other British ] used  "not bad" in their fab accent in the same way that Chinese use 不错 bùcuò.I somehow seem to remember Billy Connolly making a joke of this.