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Posted on: Traveling around China
April 29, 2007 at 8:40 AMuser26485, Thank you for the congrats! Dave, Thank you for putting me right.
Posted on: Traveling around China
April 29, 2007 at 7:33 AMChris, I just listened to the expansion sentences. 'Ying yu' might sound slightly off tone because the lady really went full throttle on the 'ng' sound. Do it a few times and you'll get what I mean.
Posted on: Traveling around China
April 29, 2007 at 7:28 AMDave, Thank you! We've almost lost track ourselves.
Posted on: What's Your Name?
April 27, 2007 at 4:04 PMmooseman, 'IE users currently have a small bug when downloading. Be sure to save the file with an ' .mp3' file extension.' Does that work?
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 13: A Dad Gives Advice to a Broken-Hearted Son
April 27, 2007 at 3:42 PMIt must be universal. No parents could talk affectionately about their children's exes. There is actually a lot of relationship talk between parents and (grown up) children in China, particularly with the only-child generation, where parents are overbearing in every aspect.
Posted on: Requesting a Glass of Water
April 26, 2007 at 2:53 PMFor those who want the best of the 2 worlds, say 温水/wen1 shui3/water at a mild temperature.
Posted on: Capital Punishment
April 26, 2007 at 4:06 AMThe duplication is a plural construction.
Posted on: Requesting a Glass of Water
April 26, 2007 at 4:01 AMAZERDocMom, Another example of trying too hard. I was looking for a word more impressive than 'watery',
Posted on: Requesting a Glass of Water
April 26, 2007 at 3:57 AMLester, It is 服务员儿。Adding 儿(the 'er' sound) to the end of a word is a speech habit in Beijing.
Posted on: Traveling around China
April 29, 2007 at 1:52 PMMexicanhat, Dave said it better than I could do, which is to slowly walk through the lessons. I have to say that some of the early intermediate lessons were way too hard while the eles too easy, creating a rather big chasm. That's why we started to 'beef up' the eles and appropriately take the intermediate lessons down a bit. But there is would be a watershed between these 2 levels as it is with langauge learning in general. In my experience, exposure to the language, even to the point of over exposure was key. But equally important and regarldess of how cliche it sounds, take it step by step.