User Comments - catherinem
catherinem
Posted on: Marco Polo in China
January 26, 2011 at 6:30 AMThat's a great suggestion. I've taken a note of it!
Posted on: Dodging Hong Kong Sales Tax
January 26, 2011 at 2:04 AMThis is quite difficult, but I would think of it more as a transition from upper intermediate to advanced. We have been trying to do "high" intermediates as well, in order to help bridge the intermediate to upper intermediate shift. Glad you find it interesting!
Posted on: 《易经》的本意
January 25, 2011 at 6:09 AMVery strange. I'm glad it's fixed now. Let me know if you experience any similar problems and I'll be happy to look into them!
Posted on: 《易经》的本意
January 25, 2011 at 1:54 AMI've just listened to it and the audio review is only 11min and 35 seconds. Its order is vocab - expansions - speed it up (expansions). Try clearing your cache. Did you download the file? If so, perhaps try downloading it again. If you're listening to it in your web browser, perhaps try listening in a different browser.
Posted on: What's Your Job?
January 24, 2011 at 9:59 AMYou are correct - it can only be said lǎoshī. The PDF has been corrected. Thanks for pointing it out!
Posted on: 《易经》的本意
January 24, 2011 at 9:57 AMI just checked it and am not experiencing problems on my end. Can you provide some details of how it's not working? Thanks.
Posted on: Marco Polo in China
January 24, 2011 at 9:40 AMI don't think this counts, Mark. A clear sign of MPS, from what I understand, is being unfriendly to other foreigners or talking about China/Chinese as if you were the first person to (1) ever live in China and/or (2) speak Chinese. I think that hanging out in places were there aren't tons of foreigners is something a lot of people do in order to immerse themselves in the culture and avoid using English as a crutch.
Posted on: Marco Polo in China
January 24, 2011 at 9:38 AMPerhaps try logging out and logging back in. This often helps me if my dashboard doesn't update properly. In the meantime I'll investigate the issue. Let me know if logging out helped at all!
Posted on: Funerals and Consolation
January 19, 2011 at 2:57 AMAnother important difference is the introduction of the phrase 节哀顺变, which used for offering your condolences. It's a good one to remember, and one which we didn't cover in our Elementary lesson on bereavement.
Posted on: Inside the Baozi Business
February 10, 2011 at 2:08 AMThanks for the suggestion - I think it'd be really interesting to interview both students and teachers. I'll mark it down, along with your idea of interviewing the elderly, which coincidentally I had to do as a project for Chinese class years ago. It was a great experience - I definitely learned a lot!