User Comments - chris1
chris1
Posted on: Haggling Like a Local
April 23, 2010 at 2:34 PMLike Chanelle77 I used to speak fairly good French until I started studying Chinese. Now, while I still understand the French if I start speaking a sentence in French it always ends in Chinese then no one understands me.
Posted on: How to Start a Conversation with Chinese People
February 24, 2010 at 5:32 PMOK. One more question for the C-pod crew. If 你好 is not an acceptable greeting then why do you continue to put it in your lessons? Check out the most recent elementary lesson on Visitng A Friend's Room. It starts out 您好。
Posted on: How to Start a Conversation with Chinese People
February 23, 2010 at 9:33 PMI see a recurring pattern here. I too have been saying 你好吗 for years to my Chinese friends. Ouch, I can't believe I have been a 奇怪老外 for this long!
Posted on: Will you Marry Me?
January 14, 2009 at 5:15 PMKimiik: What a great video!!!
Posted on: 练书法
November 17, 2008 at 4:02 AMI love these clips. They are great listening practice and easy to understand. Best of all they are very entertaining and now that we can see the speaker it is even better. Chinese pod, you guys really are on the cutting edge of language study as far as I am concerned. This is the 3rd language I have studied and while it has been challenging learning Chinese over the past 3 years that I have been studying with you (though no worse than the African language, tshluba that I learned in 1970), it has certainly been a lot more fun learning Chinese than when I took French in high school (the old bat teacher was a slave driver). While I certainly do not consider myself fluent yet, I can carry on a reasonable conversation with my Chinese friends. I can understand them and best of all they can understand me. When I started this study I wondered if this would ever be possible studying this way on line. Now I see that it is. Keep up the great work!
Posted on: Triumph of the Rat
October 27, 2008 at 2:23 PMI love these stories on video. They are so great!! Makes learning Chinese a lot of fun. Keep up the good work.
Posted on: Tool Delivery
August 4, 2008 at 5:38 PMWhat a great lesson. Jenny and John are really a scream on this one especially their attempts at sound effects. Goofy lessons like this tend to stick in my brain a lot better than the more mundane ones. Keep up the great work!!
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 8, 2008 at 2:30 PMLester mentioned different voices in the pod casts. I have come to recognize several of the voices over time but of course I don't know who they are. I think it would be very appropriate if someone mentioned the Chinese speakers at some point during each pod cast. I feel like I know these people and I love their inflections and the feeling they put into the dialogue but then again I don't even know their names.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Fury
February 29, 2008 at 1:52 PMI have noticed that the elementary lessons have been getting shorter and shorter. This on going story with Yang Jie and company has been one of the better sources for vocabulary and grammar and they were fairly long but I fear that the elementary lessons in general are being dumbed down a bit too much from what they used to be and this one is a case in point.
Posted on: What is up with 由
September 8, 2010 at 5:44 PMMaybe you have already done a lesson this but I am noticing more and more uses for 来. We all know it means "come" but as mentioned in this lesson it can also mean to do as in 你来吧. The recent intermediate lesson on ordering food uses this when someone wants the other person to order the food. So, I am wondering if there is call for a 请问 lesson on 来? Of course if there already is one maybe someone could tell me which one it is.