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cali
Posted on: Patience for Doctors and Patients
April 12, 2014 at 9:11 AMThere is missing audio in the Expansion and Grammer sections. Also some of the translations in the pop-up are misleading. The same problems exist in other lessons as well.
Posted on: Behind the Scenes at the Beauty Pageant
February 20, 2008 at 1:54 PMCan bei4 bao1 be used to mean " be bought off" or "be bribed"? Does it necessarily have to connate some type of relationship?
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 31, 2007 at 2:09 AMmarcosbento, It's interesting, a French women also told me she doesn't drink cold drinks during her period. She got that from her mother and grandmother.
Posted on: Cold Will Kill You
October 30, 2007 at 1:14 PMIt's very, very rare, but I've had upset stomachs after drinking ice water after eating. Once I slept while the AC was blowing on me and I woke up with very stiff joints. Still, I don't think hearty people need to be so paranoid about the cold. When everyone was malnourished and living conditions were unhygenic, people got sick all the time and it often and led to more serious conditions and even death. I suspect it was the Grandmas who borrowed a page from the theory of Chinese medicine (maybe misrepresenting it, I don't know) and spread the "cold is evil" culture. As far as ice cream causing diarrhea, a lot of Chinese people used to be lactose intolerant (I don't know about now). When I workout at the gym I sometimes wonder if my desire for ice cold water is just a psychological habit.
Posted on: This Coffee is a Ripoff!
April 9, 2015 at 3:39 AMRegarding the amount of English in the lessons, I think more is better than less. The jump from intermediate to upper intermediate is often large (not necessarily recently) so at least the same amount English should be used in both levels.