User Comments - dunderklumpen

Posted on: All About the Lesson Content

I'm looking forward to hearing from you then and see if you think it is better too :-) So, you internet connection isn't very fast now?

Posted on: All About the Lesson Content

No I don't have special equipment. I use the front speakers of a crappy Logitech X-530 system but I wish I had better speakers.

I think the higher quality helps my pronounciation pretty much, my comprehension a little, but the tones not at all.

哈哈，I like your new avatar :-)

Posted on: All About the Lesson Content

I only download the cd quality lesson since it makes a big difference to me. I guess I'm sensitive to audio quality since I've been playing music by ear for many years. I can easily tell the difference between the radio and the cd quality lesson.

When I comes to wine I can hardly tell the difference between red and white...

Posted on: The Monks in the Temple on the Mountain

Ok, thanks :-)

Posted on: The Monks in the Temple on the Mountain

Hi Cpod,

Is this the "true" version of the story or is it simplified in order to suit elementary level students? I've seen one version that goes 。。。有个老和尚，老和尚旁边有个小和尚，老和尚对小和尚说。。。(...there was an old monk. Next to the old monk there was a young monk. The old monk said to the young monk...

Posted on: Help at the ATM

谢谢你解释!

Posted on: Lost Cell Phone

I've got a question about this expansion sentence: 最近我老是破财，先是手机被偷，后是MP3掉进水里。

Can we use 掉进水里 on people too? For example, "He fell into the water".

I think we need a QW about the verb "fall". There are several characters (倒，摔，掉，降，。。。) that seem to do the same thing, but there surely is some difference. The QW could deal with how to say fall off a cliff, fall into the water, trip and fall, slip on ice, an airplane craches, the lid of a 茶壶 comes off and breaks to pieces on the floor, and so on. People falling, conctrete things falling, big and small things, abstract things,...

Posted on: Help at the ATM

Thanks. That confirms my vauge ideas about the use of those words.

Here's a youtube clip on how to cook kung pao chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NH3lNjFBg8

There is a lot of "add..." and "put...into" used to describe the actions of cooking. For instance

放到碗里加入 2:28

放进。。。中 3:11

放入 4:18

Posted on: Help at the ATM

Bump. Anyone?

Posted on: Help at the ATM

bump :-)