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Posted on: The Boy That Cried Wolf
October 11, 2008 at 8:37 AM

Im curious, is anyone hearing this fable of Aesop's for the first time?

The form i'd heard it in was someone yelling about a fire

Posted on: The Boy That Cried Wolf
October 11, 2008 at 5:19 AM

xuchen, from what i could understand from the story, the last time he called out about the wolf there really was one, no one believed him and he got eaten.

Posted on: Transliteration into Chinese and the Long Pinky Fingernail
October 5, 2008 at 10:25 AM

On the topic of transliterating names, heres some examples

Famous singers- http://www.nciku.com/theme/detail?catg1ID=2&catg2ID=3

Famous actors- http://www.nciku.com/theme/detail?catg1ID=2&catg2ID=2

Famous atheletes- http://www.nciku.com/theme/detail?catg1ID=2&catg2ID=4

Posted on: Post-Holiday Preview
October 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM

i was confused for a moment there too! Lucky NSWers!

Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 2, 2008 at 7:55 AM

The first lesson was Basic Greetings on 5th september 2005. You can see what the site looked like in its first week at http://web.archive.org/web/20050924204811/http://chinesepod.com/

Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 2, 2008 at 2:14 AM

Yes, some of the very early ones were taken off to be redone to bring them up to the same standard as other ones. Including the removed ones, this is number 1000

Posted on: Introducing a Friend
September 30, 2008 at 6:17 AM

The way i would understand that would be along the lines of "introduce yourself to everyone else" said to a new member of a group

Posted on: Transliteration into Chinese and the Long Pinky Fingernail
September 27, 2008 at 1:56 AM

Little bush is a cool way to translate it. My friends often refer to him as Bonsai (which is a type of small bush)

Posted on: Lesson Preview, New Team Member
September 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM

Even though they are not very similar and i haven't spoken much Indonesian in the last few years i tend to occasionly go to put Indonesian words into Chinese sentinces.

Posted on: Checking Baggage
September 17, 2008 at 1:55 AM

Too right bazza. Some countries are pretty painless (japan, france and canada particually) but some are nightmares (australia, heathrow London and sometimes America) Coming back into australia a few months ago we ran into trouble. Since australia doesn't have a lot of the bugs that are damaging to agriculture they check anything wooden comming in to make sure it doesn't have any bugs stowing away. This includes opening any wooden boxes.  We had in our possesion a few wooden box shaped puzzles from Japan that required you to slide the pannels at least 17 times in the right combination to get open.Of course they just had to see inside the box. We ended up holding up the queue for ages trying to do a puzzle thats hard under normal circumstances, let alone jetlaged. Fun times!