User Comments - henning
henning
Posted on: Accents and Subway Survival
October 7, 2007 at 10:05 AMDear Amber, how important is Mandarin today when working for a multinational coroporation? Let's for example say you are working for leading European company in the healthcare sector? What depth and width of know how is helpful and when can you apply it?
Posted on: Accents and Subway Survival
October 7, 2007 at 8:17 AMSo have you visited the Factory yet? You should definately be on DA.
Posted on: Paying Child Support
October 5, 2007 at 1:48 PMlalaland, I have subscribed Premium now for about 13 months (+ several month "Basic" before that) and also recently took a month of the "Practice Plan". Without the PDF & HTML transcripts from the "Basic" subscription you cannot work seriously with ChinesePod. The "Premium" version has gained significantly in value during the last months with additions like "The Fix" and the "Dialogue Only" versions. I also put some hopes into the still rather skeletal "Grammar Guide". If you are studying in "autodidactic mode" as I do, it is definately worth the money - way better than all the other Chinese learning materials out there (which often offer less for more money - just look at "Rosetta Stone"). As you are in China right now you are probably not starting from zero - which is what most books and classes presuppose you do. ChinesePod definately filles a vacuum with its high-quality and relevant Intermediate levels (Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, and Advanced). If you take University classes or have a private tutor anyway the rationale might look totally different, though. Also look at the time you want to invest each day. I build the "Expansion" and "Excercises" into my daily routine and listen to both podcasts and "The Fix" whenever I can, but that means you need to take the time for it. So I can only recommend that you use the trial period prudently to find out.
Posted on: Paying Child Support
October 5, 2007 at 10:07 AMlalaland, as there is a national holiday in China this week, your request will probably not be answered before next Monday.
Posted on: Wang Wei's Diary: Food and Girls
October 5, 2007 at 9:11 AMDo I understand you correctly, Ken: This is a kind of a deadly neuronal disease... O:
Posted on: Treating and Foreigners on TV
October 5, 2007 at 3:38 AMAmber, on secret mission in Mexico? Two tips for treating: 1. Hold your purse or better even: the money in your hand. Chinese have increadible sprinting skills when it comes to paying the bill. We lost yesterday because of that. 2. Bring a partner and gang up against your host. One holds him tightly (better cover her or his mouth also) the other pays. This worked once perfectly for us. Supplementary remark: The one who wins and pays has of course the right to take the rest of food home.
Posted on: Wang Wei's Diary: Food and Girls
October 5, 2007 at 3:09 AMI also do not think this is anyway realistic - this was obviously written by a girl. Come on, a boy, a supposedly "nerdy" boy even, reflecting on a girl's *clothes* in his diary? :)
Posted on: The DVD Vendor
October 3, 2007 at 9:00 AMoneringtorulethemall, I checked with 3 dictionaries: hǎo lái wù is correct. Regarding 不错: "bù cuò" is the correct Pinyin *notation*. "bú cuò" is how it is actually spoken: http://chinesepod.com/learnchinese/tone-rule-changes-for-bu/discussion
Posted on: Of Beauty Pageants and Plastic Surgery
October 2, 2007 at 12:26 PMI still don't get it. *Eyelids* - the small pieces of skin used for blinking? Do you even see this phenonemon without some sophisticated optical device? I never ever noticed it. It never bothered me.
Posted on: 自闭症
October 8, 2007 at 2:40 AMhttp://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/07/vause.disabled.dignity.cnn