User Comments - darylk
darylk
Posted on: Capital Punishment
April 25, 2007 at 4:13 PMThis lesson was way beyond my lower intermediate comprehension, but I did appreciate your tackling such a controversial, sensitive, moral topic and know that I will be able to use many of the verbs and interjections. Thanks.
Posted on: Chinese Onomatopoeia
April 20, 2007 at 3:04 AMReally fun lesson. But when it comes to onomatopoeia, in my book nothing beats Tennyson's phrase "the murmur of innumerable bees!"
Posted on: 自然灾害
April 18, 2007 at 2:57 PMSorry to post these technical issues here but not sure where else to post because: 1. "contact chinesepod" function also seems not to be working.When I hit the button and get taken to my email program, the "to" header is weird: "chinesepod chinespod". It didn't use to repeat your name twice so I fear that the emails to you are not going through. 2. Another function that is not working: the sound /audio feature of the flash cards no longer works either. I concur with Rich's last post: I feel like I've fallen into some very disorienting site and have no idea how to get to where I want to go.
Posted on: 自然灾害
April 18, 2007 at 2:42 PMThe new site has a nicer, more open look but I am having major problems with just about every dimension of the site: 1. The mp3 files no longer download smoothly 2. 25% of the time the regular lesson button will not launch today's lesson, so I've not been able to do my daily lesson at all on several days 3. Finding the older lessons is now more difficult--you have to click on "explore" which launches extremely slowly--takes my computer close to 30 seconds to 60 seconds to launch the screen 4. The Concentration game, which I used to use extensively, is far less functional because a) the dark gray "Wrong" banner is a huge distraction and makes it difficult to see the word one has chosen beneath the opaque banner; and b) because the cards seem to flip faster, making it impossible to see where one went wrong (although the cards may just seem to flip faster because of the annoying Wrong banner). 5. The exercises are now far less functional because you don't get graded for each answer but instead are told only that you got 9/10 right. Ok, but I don't have all day to go back and vary my answers to figure out which one is wrong. The permutations of possible answers is very large! 6. The vocabulary matching exercise for the daily lesson no longer works--the line does not appear linking words and so you can't use this function either. Hope you can fix these issues quickly. I miss my smoothly functioning Chinesepod. Daryl
Posted on: Requesting a Glass of Water
April 26, 2007 at 2:59 PMJenny, I love your opening puns--keep'em coming. You could have said "hydrophilic" lesson --a "water-loving" lesson. Makes me think you could do a good lesson about cat lovers, dog lovers, beer lovers, etc. Or the reverse--acrophobes, agoraphobes, hydrophobes, Mandarin-phobes (just jokihg)..