User Comments - bodawei
bodawei
Posted on: You've been everywhere!
September 14, 2010 at 8:09 AMWaddya mean, 'as a young man'??? In my dreams I AM a young man. :)
Look I have plenty of weird dreams, particularly after eating cream, or steak for that matter. I will keep an eye out for you in my dreams. (Zhen's right, this is starting to get too weird.)
Posted on: How do you fix a boring Chinese course?
September 14, 2010 at 3:49 AM这是中文播客广告，对吧？ 没问题。没关系。 :)
Posted on: Teaching English in China
September 14, 2010 at 3:36 AM很有意思，我还不知道。 我想大概对会计师‘工资和薪水不一样， 专业的意思？ 现代在澳洲多人还不知道'wages'和'salary'不同。
可以说：周薪， 周薪工人的周薪？
Posted on: Getting a Tattoo
September 14, 2010 at 12:18 AM起先我把你的繁体字看不懂。
Posted on: Getting a Tattoo
September 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM大概溫州的男生太怕。
Posted on: Getting a Tattoo
September 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM我有脸上的皱纹，你呢？ hee hee
Posted on: Getting a Tattoo
September 13, 2010 at 1:27 PMZhenlijiang - I'm not sure if you are aware that huami is a native speaker, you probably are, in which case I might have made an ass of myself again, forgive me if so. And I trust she doesn't model her English off mine. :)
Actually I looked at what she wrote too and wondered why she collocated 文纹身(see my exchange with Connie.) Maybe I should ask her rather than just wondering. :)
Posted on: Teaching English in China
September 12, 2010 at 10:17 AMHi lisaammy
I assume that you are asking for an elaboration of my response (in English?) The question was: what is the difference between 'wages' and 'salaries'. Wages are for workers, salaries are for bosses. :)
There are practical differences (depending on your country and industry) - wages are often provided weekly, based on the hours worked including overtime and allowances. Salaries are normally paid monthly, fortnightly or twice a month (in any case less often than wages.) The amount is usually a fixed proportion of an agreed annual salary; it doesn't vary according to your hours worked. Of course there are many exceptions to the rule.
Posted on: Personalizing ChinesePod
September 14, 2010 at 9:16 AMJohn.. My question that you are not sure you understand is I presume: 'Perhaps a lesson could be devoted to how to use this switch productively?'
I just did a quick check of the switch in question - & the options are:
Bookmarked * icon
Studied [tick] icon
Removed [bin] icon
Group content [group] icon (I assume that will go in Dashboard 2.0)
Subscribed icon?
Yeh, I don't know how to use this tool productively; it is probably written in one of the guides but perhaps I need to be talked/walked through it. I would like to be able to use it but at the moment I don't.
And (separate issue) I am not sure that technically it works as well as it should. Eg. Why do my lessons which are subscribed appear on the Dashboard as Bookmarked? Then when I go to the Lesson page, they are there asking to be Bookmarked even though they are subscribed. And if I go the Lesson list on the site, there is no way of me knowing whether I have previously downloaded a Lesson (sometimes I'm not sure, from memory.) And if you toggle through to Removed (shouldn't it be the verb 'Remove'?), the lesson is actually still there in your list.
There is something fundamentally challenging about this switch - (1) it is both a status indicator (set by the website) and a tool for the student to use to change the status of the lesson. (2) when the student uses it the options are not all of the same class - eg. you hit 'Removed’ to remove a lesson, but you can't use it to make a lesson Subscribed. I think Bookmarked, Group Content and Subscribed are of the one class (advises status), and Studied and Removed are in another class. The latter class of operation would be better undertaken as a Click and Drag (eg. to a bin.)
Lots of questions. I am not sure if they are relevant to other students - it was just a suggestion that if it was covered in one of these lessons we might get to use the site more productively.