User Comments - bodawei
bodawei
Posted on: Suffix Magic
May 5, 2010 at 6:38 AMHi Catherine
Why are new lessons added to the bottom? You make it sound like a feature; I thought it was a bug that would soon be fixed. It would look better if they were added to the top. It would be easier to see, easier to get to, and would give it some importance., And it would be consistent with the Latest and Replies to Me tabs. It's got to be a bug, right? Don't tell us that it is always going to look like this. :)
Posted on: Two Tough Ladies
May 4, 2010 at 11:27 PMI would prefer that ChinesePod did not attempt colloquialisms, and not just because they are US-biased and inappropriate or meaningless for many learners. Sometimes the Chinese just does not translate and we shouldn't force it. Perhaps a short narrative would help to describe situations where these expressions are used, using more examples. Sometimes there is a very limited range of applications of certain phrases. Substituting a US colloquialism may encourage people to apply the expression in situations where it just doesn't work. Perhaps rather than a 'culture-neutral' approach it should be one that makes more effort to explain the Chinese culture.
Posted on: Suffix Magic
May 4, 2010 at 10:41 AMI have had no success downloading this directly from the website - anyone else have problems? CP Technical team interested?
Posted on: 邓小平南巡讲话
May 4, 2010 at 9:41 AMThanks Mark. This comment was a little cryptic - thanks for the explanation. :)
Posted on: Suffix Magic
May 4, 2010 at 9:23 AMI get QingWen in my dashboard and I never knowingly subscribed to anything since the changes. I have just left it alone; everything I got before I get now. Wait, maybe I had to add the Shanghaihua thing - do you join a group, I can't remember.
If you are subscribed you get them downloaded to i-Tunes anyway; you don't need Dashboard do you? I find the Lessons tab more useful. There is also an email notice but this seems to come a few days after the lesson is available.
If we try to remember how it was before, we don't need Dashboard for anything. Some people find the Latest and Replies to Me tab useful.
Posted on: Lovey-Dovey Terminology
April 25, 2010 at 1:53 AMRJ
My wife says that to me all the time, but she just wants me to get off ChinesePod. :)
Posted on: Lovey-Dovey Terminology
April 24, 2010 at 6:07 AMI don't recognise the expressions "Baby Mama" and "Baby Daddy" at all. If not terms of endearment, what are they? And which terms are you saying that they are like?
Posted on: Lovey-Dovey Terminology
April 24, 2010 at 2:17 AM佳佳她娘 JiāJiātāniáng (Jia Jia's mother) may not be so different to what is said in the West by some couples. Ronald Regan was famous for calling his wife 'Mommy'. I always thought this was because the children called the mother 'Mommy', so the husband (hearing it all the time) just got into the habit. Another possibility might be that men are often said to marry women as 'replacement mothers'; after treating your wife as your mother it might be just one more step to call them 'mummy'.
PS. 佳佳 JiaJia is a great name! Nice choice John.
Posted on: Suffix Magic
May 5, 2010 at 6:41 AMAnd when you go to the All Lessons list it reverses the convention - doesn't that disturb your sense of order?