User Comments - jennyzhu
jennyzhu
Posted on: A Little Hint of Mystery, a Theme Week, and a Job Offer
May 29, 2011 at 2:46 PMI still remember the festivities on Children's Day when I was in preschool: ballons, playground, snacks, etc, Those were a luxury back in the day. I was happy if my parents took me to the park to celabrate. Unfortunately now, Children's Day is another commercialised holiday where kids are made to expect a gift.
BTW, "talk like a pirate day" sounds way too coll for school.
Posted on: A Little Hint of Mystery, a Theme Week, and a Job Offer
May 28, 2011 at 4:13 PMI should add that June 1stis 儿童节//értóngjié/Children's Day in China, hence the theme week. Do any other countries celebrate it?
Posted on: Rowing a Boat
May 27, 2011 at 5:41 AM划船 is mostly a leisure activity in China. You apply the same energy into it as you would slow dancing. So it is paddling in that case.
Posted on: 康熙来了
May 27, 2011 at 5:38 AM大S是小S的姐姐。也是明星。
Posted on: Surfing the Internet
May 26, 2011 at 4:55 PMKen's style was he always translated in both a word-for-word fashion and a more idiomatic style. So you'd get a way that is natural in English, and another which literally reflects the Chinese. He thought it was useful for a beginner student. And our guiding principle throughout has been to reflect the most authentic and naturalistic speech in both English and Chinese. For example, the sentence level translation in dialogues while conform to the Chinese as best as they can (especially at the lower levels), they will take a more idiomatic form if fully matching the Chinese becomes too awkward. And the annotations in mouse over show the literal meaning of words.
Posted on: 康熙来了
May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PMThe three people featured in this lesson are all media royalties in the Chinese speaking world. The woman, 小S is known for her daring, often borderline R-rated commentaries. 蔡康永 is a published author, filmmaker, Peking opera afficionado and one of the first Chinese public figures to come out of the closet. And the guest 李敖 is one of the most important contemporary authors in the Mandarin speaking world. He is also a social commentator, historian, and independent politician.
Posted on: 康熙来了
May 26, 2011 at 9:13 AMMark,
I forgot to say "congratulations" for making it to this level. You have been a very active member on the community. I remember your comments on newbie, ele and int lessons. Now, you are doing advanced and media! 多好！
Posted on: 康熙来了
May 26, 2011 at 3:04 AMMark,
I fully understand where you are coming from and appreciate your feedback, but we are supporting different styles of learning especially at the higher levels by giving students more varied study resources underlined by a focused lesson discussion with less spoon feeding if you will. This is why media lessons exist. It's not a bad thing to keep an open mind about it. But if you feel strongly that this kind of media lessons is not for you, there is plenty of upper intermediate and advanced lessons to benefit from.
Posted on: Too Picky
May 25, 2011 at 5:07 AMThe speed of speech increases as you go up in levels. Having said that, I do agree that a lot of the early lessons have extremely slow speech. You won't find that problem with lessons produced now (or 2010 onwards) as we started to unify academic standards including speed of speech, dialogue length and difficulty.
Posted on: A Little Hint of Mystery, a Theme Week, and a Job Offer
May 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM有道理！