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henning
Posted on: Do You Remember....
July 5, 2008 at 6:31 PMjane,
again, audio works fine for me and has done so since the day of the publication. It works both with IE and Firefox. Have you considered the possibility that those "bugs" might indeed be on your side?
Posted on: Taking the HSK
July 5, 2008 at 12:27 PMmartin,
8 hours a day Chinese sounds like a fun way to spend the day. However, for me that would also mean that my sleeping budget per day would fall way below zero. Guess I need some kind of time warp device.
Fortunatelly, I personally don't need a HSK to keep motivated. Chinese is the hobby I need to relax.
Undoubtly the HSK has CV-value. It is an objective standard. I have seen quite a few bold claims of "Chinese basic proficiency" by persons who in fact would struggle even with the Elementry level here...
Posted on: Taking the HSK
July 4, 2008 at 3:05 PMVocab: From what I saw in demo / mockup HSK tests, the Elementry/Intermediate HSK is at the level of the Advanced lessons here.
Consequence: As soon as I become permanently bored vocab-wise with the Advanced level (< 3 new words each lesson) the HSK might become interesting. Currently I still encounter about 15 new vocab items per Advanced lesson.
Actually you do indeed learn some formal / written language at the 3 highest CPod levels, despite the fact that the dialogues are not filled densly with formality. For me it was CPod that enabled me to start decrypting news items.
My personal biggest weekness is definately my (hand!) writing skill and I have the suscpicion this might also be the case for some other pure-CPod-learners.
Auntie: We have the grammar show: The Qing Wens. There just can't be enough of them. Still waiting for the 是。。。的-QW and the 把-QW.
Posted on: Taking the HSK
July 3, 2008 at 7:51 AMJust discussed 增添砝码 with my collegue.
According to him its origninal meaning is something like "upping the ante" (putting more chips on the table in a casino setting).
Posted on: Taking the HSK
July 3, 2008 at 6:43 AM我等待可以毫无预习通过HSK。。。那天到了我才参加考试。到底来不来我不知道。 其实也无所谓。
反正我喜欢考试资料。 依我看CPod提供的Exercises不够挑战性。
Posted on: 欧洲杯
June 30, 2008 at 5:35 AM哎哟。
我不是球迷。 昨天的决赛是我在这届欧洲杯看的第一场比赛。 可能这是德国队踢得那么差的原因 (迷信的倾向)。
不过好处也有。 昨夜外边比较安静， 没有通夜按喇叭的车辆。。。
Posted on: Sweet Roasted Chestnuts
June 27, 2008 at 11:30 AMjane,
audio works fine for me (Integrated player, download, dialogue, vocab, expansion, listen & type exercise) and so do the exercises (Windows XP, Firefox 3).
Posted on: 垃圾回收
June 27, 2008 at 6:00 AM对了， substantive， predicate 中文怎么说呢?
Posted on: Sneezing
July 6, 2008 at 9:16 AMIn the frequency table I am using, 嚏 appears at No. 3897 which means it is not really rare.
Is it really not worth learning how to write it?
Changye: Do you happen to know the ethymology of 嚏?