User Comments - jbradfor
jbradfor
Posted on: Booking a Plane Ticket
June 3, 2007 at 4:35 PMWhat do people think of ChinesePod editing these comments to removed obsolete posts? For example, the comments about problems downloading. Now that it's fixed, should these be removed to that readers in the future don't need to read old CP problems? [Not that I'm saying those posts were wrong when posted, just that do we want to keep them? Or perhaps a self-editing feature that allows users to remove their own posts? Personally, I really like the comments section for each lesson. However, IMHO the signal-to-noise ratio could be improved by focusing only on lesson-related issues, and off-topic posts could be moved to the forums or deleted. [And yes, this post is NOT a lesson related issue, so one could argue under my criteria this post should be deleted too....]
Posted on: Booking a Plane Ticket
June 1, 2007 at 11:19 PM"pay in cash to the delivery person."?? Is that really done in China?
Posted on: Chinese Wedding Customs
May 19, 2007 at 5:50 PMA while back Jenny Zhu wrote "I do apologize for the speed of my speech and the occasional hard words if they caused any issue. I can get a bit carried away with certain topics." Don't apologize. I think it's great when you do that. For so many reasons. First, it keeps us humble. Just when I think I'm mastering this, along comes a stream of full-speed Mandarin to remind me how people *actually* talk. [Not to mention the (all too) occasional excitement when I can actually follow it....] Second, it provides various levels of teaching within one lesson. Some fast speech, some slow speech, some easy vocab, some hard vocab, some useful vocab, some fun vocab. Mix it up! Third, as Lorean writes, "I know that by not speaking at my normal speed, my intonation and rhythm become alien. As a Chinese student, I don't want to actively learn retarded speech." By hearing natural-paced speech, it helps us get use to it, and we learn more.
Posted on: Chinese Wedding Customs
May 19, 2007 at 5:37 PMBy my count this is Intermediate lesson 99. Nicely done, ChinesePod!! Since the character for 9 (九）sounds the same as the character for a long duration of time (久 ), 9 is a very good number for weddings. Please tell me this was planned?
Posted on: Recognizing an Employee
April 19, 2007 at 1:57 AMQuasi-related question. Someone in my company is leaving our company for a different job in Taiwan. So I want to wish him good luck in his new job in Chinese. I assume there is a standard Chinese phrase when someone takes a new job and you want to wish that person well? What is it? Thanks.
Posted on: Booking a Plane Ticket
June 4, 2007 at 2:29 PMclarence says " I don't even know where the forum is, but I doubt that I would go anywhere but here!!" http://forum.chinesepod.com/ It's a more common place for off-topic discussions.