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Posted on: My computer froze!
January 4, 2009 at 9:11 PM

When downloading the traditional PDF for this lesson, it's blank :/ 

Posted on: Common Measure Words
December 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM

The measure word for "pair" is missing from the traditional PDF, but I guess it's 雙？

Posted on: Which friend?
December 20, 2008 at 5:03 PM

I think the word for "hair" on the traditional PDF is wrong.  Should be 頭髮， not 頭發.

Posted on: How is this sold?
December 10, 2008 at 6:02 PM

The CD quality full lesson audio track for this lesson is cut in half.  Doh.. I was on a roll too.

Posted on: Ping Pong
December 3, 2008 at 3:47 AM

Doh.. I think it's a joke from the earlier episodes. :/ I just listened to the previous one end it was mentioned again.  Kinda funny tho.

Posted on: Ping Pong
December 1, 2008 at 11:42 PM

Is it just me or did Ken call Jenny "Johnnie" twice during the recording?  Or maybe I've been listening to too many podcasts... oi

Posted on: No Walking on the Grass
October 21, 2008 at 2:11 AM

Changye, thanks for chiming in!  I was beginning to think I was crazy.  I'm sure to a native person they hear it as "shang" in the wordly sense, but I just can't hear a bit of "s" in there at all.

Thanks for clearing up the "shei" "shui"... I never knew that... good stuff!

Posted on: No Walking on the Grass
October 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM

I don't know Jenny.  I can kinda of see how I might be wrong with the 出來, but I definitely hear no "s" sound whatsoever in 上.  I totally agree with you how even in English things don't sound the same as in isolation, but is this a case of that?  In other words, is it typical to leave off the "s" in "shang4" sometimes? 

Also in the expansion,他在叫誰的名字, 誰 sounded a lot like shui.  I'm sure it's pronunced properly, but i'm just wondering is it a dialect thing, or more loose style of speaking?  This is the first elementary lesson out of 90 that I've had difficulty understanding the pronunciation.

Posted on: No Walking on the Grass
October 20, 2008 at 2:03 AM

Is it my bad hearing or does it sound like the 師傅 doesn't pronounce the "s" in 上?  It sounds like "hang".  Is that a common ommitance?  Also 出來 kind of sounds like 出了.

Posted on: The New News and Features Jingle Contest Winner!
September 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM

Am I the only one who loved the old jingle?


The new one is definitely cool and fun tho!  Kudos