User Comments - kencarroll
kencarroll
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 12: The Breakup
June 2, 2007 at 1:21 AMniscastillo, If you click on the 'Dialogue' tab in red, you can read, practice and do a lot more.
Posted on: I can't buy my size
May 31, 2007 at 3:18 AMPiers, You've made it very clear that the 'massive problem' with the ChinesePod approach does not suit you and that you prefer Tai Da. To each his own.
Posted on: Playing the Stock Market
May 26, 2007 at 1:14 PM@user20293, I've written a lot about lexis over the last year on the the blog. See here, for example http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/03/15/the-lexical-approach-and-chinesepod/ If you type 'lexis' in the blog search you'll find nore on it. It may seem obvious that teaching chunks of language is the way to go but most teachers actually use other approaches - grammar, for example, or by separating words as individual items.
Posted on: Playing the Stock Market
May 25, 2007 at 2:09 AMI like the vocab in this lesson - talking about possibilities and speculations, etc. Business speak tends to be very rich in lexical density lots of juicy phrases, collocations, and chunks of language. Learning to recognize these is helpful if you work in that milieu, while learning to use them can make you sound very fluent. Lexis rocks!
Posted on: Directory Assistance
May 24, 2007 at 5:47 AMsper61, I just love those little nmemo...mnemmo... nememonics...those things that help you to remember stuff.
Posted on: My New MP3 Player
May 23, 2007 at 5:17 AMAzerdocmom, Really nice lesson. Have you ever considered taking up teaching full time?
Posted on: My New MP3 Player
May 23, 2007 at 1:46 AMazerdocmom, Sounds good, but I can't access the video. It says we need a sender's friend request...
Posted on: What's that smell?
May 23, 2007 at 12:27 AMSteven says '我现在想放屁'. Never let it be said that ChinesePod doesn't 'bring out the best' in people.
Posted on: What's that smell?
May 22, 2007 at 4:05 AMI guess I'm old enough not to find fart jokes funny any more but Jenny and I had some real fun in the studio with this baby. So, here's my question: Who can guess who provided the real sound effect for this one? (a)Jenny (b)Aric (c)John
Posted on: Where Children Come From
June 2, 2007 at 6:04 AMi';m surprised the hasn'nt been more discussion about the cultural thing here. Personally I'd be furious if peo0plew were scaring my kid when I was out of the room, but again, this is seen as toughening them up around here.