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Posted on: Fruit Salad
April 19, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Actually i've already eaten fruit salad with a kind of dressing in China. it's not really awfull but a little bizarre. So how can I say"don't put mayo"? is that sentence OK : "bie fang jiang" or "don't put anything in it" :bie fang shenmme" correct? Thanks

Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM

(continuation) to come back to the topic of the day I find this lesson very useful. I also had some experience of the chinese trains but (was it a miracle) I had no problems at all. I bought my ticket at a special desk for foreigners and I had a special waiting -room,and the foreigners were the first to go onboard. Of course the price was not the lowest. This happened in Beijing to Xian (by night) Before we started 3 chinese men arrived in the berth, (I was the only woman) and one of them gave me his "bed" to avoid me to to go up to my own bed and he took the bed I should have had. Very "gentleman!")The next time it was from Shanghai to Suzhou and as it was not a "night train" I spoke a lot with a chinese family and we shared our hazelnuts etc...tea... very interesting.

Posted on: Train to Beijing
April 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM

Hello everybody! I like the chinese lessons here and I always read the conversations, and also the intro, of course. But I must confess that most of the time I have some difficulties with the... English!! not listening Jenny and Ken or John, but reading!!reading this kind of slang or americanisms, or abbreviations...or spuns.. I'm ashamed to tell you that, but I am postgrad in English....Can't we have, us, foreigners good English at least in the lesson introduction....sorry..maybe it's fun but think of all the learners who are not american natives.

Posted on: He's Not In
April 7, 2008 at 8:25 AM

and... that's all? .... what a phone call!!! please more dialogs even for the newbies....usually too short. Thank you

Posted on: Baseball
March 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM

This lesson gave me the opportunity to revise some words (above all in the expansion: like "ball", "play," etc... + words used in other sports and general words used in other fields, except I did not make the effort to study the names for base ball as in France we do not play base ball at all. It's a typical american game (at least at the beginning) and I think that in China it is not so much developped. It's already so difficult to learn the real useful ones of ordinary life....Sorry for those who were interested and found it useful.

Posted on: Knitting a Scarf
March 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM

HI! recently I taught my grand-daughter how to knit (she is eight) as she could not ski because she had a broken ankle.... so she had fun all the same.. (not the same kind of fun,) but she was really interested, and time flied. Just before Ihad made a big sweater for her, in several tones of flashy pink with "hairy" wool! so cute, I m very proud of it because I had not knitted since a long time!! I can't find the photo I wanted to send!! ....may be next time .. About the lessons : yes why not yoga and taï chi . I like taï chi and I also would know the name of the dances with very slow movements made by women with red fans in the parks.Do you think I can find these dance lessons in France and later in May in Kunming??? As for French cuisine recipe I am not very good at but can send some.... in French

Posted on: A Taxi for Tired Feet
March 19, 2008 at 7:58 AM

Actually I 've already heard and learnt this phrase to say "take a taxi", (da di) but I would like to know where it comes from??

Posted on: Where are you going?
March 19, 2008 at 7:45 AM

hello....I would like to know what the newbies think about these lessons for beginners....Are they difficult to start Chinese, or too easy? too long(!!!???), too short?From my own point of view I think they are too short. Well, i'm not really a beginner now, but every time there is a newbie lesson i'm happy thinking that I will understand all, and indeed I do (fortunatly!!) BUT after 10 seconds .... that's all..nothing else, stop.! What happens? already finished?! I'ts very frustrating. Fortunatly there is an expansion but so few sentences. Of course I go to elementary level even to intermediate sometimes, but at this level there is too large a gap and before being really ready for this stage I would really like to listen and read more even at the newbies'. what do you think newcomers? and the other ones?

Posted on: Relativity
March 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM

I just would like to add something : I had great fun in reading and listening the dialogue, the style and tone are cool, and it is a mistake to consider it from a scientific point of view....and not from a "littéraire" point of view, because it's like a kind of joke and relativity is taken here as a playing of word,and in another meaning applied to everyday life and has nothing to do with Einstein or science. We have here two persons chatting and saying that all is relative in life... and who are not experts. Don't take this dialogue for another thing that it is !!

Posted on: Relativity
March 18, 2008 at 2:39 PM

Hi @corrigan! Don't you think the goal of Chinesepod is to make us improve in general Chinese, and not in scientific matters? it is not a specialized site in physics and so on....You must have to look for a special lexicon to find acute chinese new words in your specialized field. You may be brilliant in your speciality (that's what you want to show..) but not us.... so ....your critism of the lesson is not justified! For speaking Einstein Theory go to my father's who is a French mathemetician but don't go to a language site!! or try to find some ChinesePhd doctor... (Sorry for making mistakes in English... but I am a native French speaker)