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light487
Posted on: Happiness Candy
January 13, 2009 at 9:56 AMHaha.. I love this male actor (Voice of D).. I have heard him in other lessons and he always makes me laugh with his surprised reactions. :) Is it possible to list the actors in the credits somewhere? I think they definitely deserve mention because they are so good! :)
On the subject of Pinyin.. it's one thing to listen to the actual sounds, like in the pronunciation guide, and it's another to understand how those sounds are derived. For example we hear jiéhūn used in the dialogue to mean "to marry". As an English speaker I see "hun" and automatically think of the sound as in the English word "nun". However, if we look at how the "un" final is derived we can understand why it is actually pronounced differently. When the compound final "uen" is combined with an initial, such as "h", it is simplified and written as "hun". So if you know that it is actually "huen", then you can pronounce it more correctly. It is the same with the compound final "uei" as when it is combined with an initial such as "d" it gets simplified and written as "dui" but because we know how it is derived we can think of it as "duei" and pronounce it more correctly.
I am wondering why there is nothing on this important topic on ChinesePOD, such as in the pronunciation guide? May be a more advanced "section" of the pronunciation guide could be created to elaborate on this principle and foundation ideas?
Posted on: The Final Show
January 12, 2009 at 8:30 PMThe cure for yellow fever.. haha.. JP really has a way with words sometimes. :)
Posted on: News and Features - Mid-January News
January 11, 2009 at 3:39 AMWell it should only take Jenny a few moments to look beautiful but I can understand it taking a few weeks for John to look beautiful :) haha.. May be he can go to the hair salon and get all "gussied up"? :) Or maybe just a shave will do! :)
Posted on: Stop in the Name of the 法 (fǎ)
January 11, 2009 at 3:22 AMSo we could say that 看法 kànfǎ is "a general point of view" or personal opinion where as 想法 xiǎngfǎ is more of "a philosophical point of view"..
Other 法's I have found are:
笔法 bǐfǎ/way of writing.
变法 biànfǎ/political reform
兵法 bīngfǎ/art of war; military strategy
唱法 chàngfǎ/way of singing (singing style)
And to build on last week's QingWen:
打法 dǎfǎ/to make a move in a game / play a card.
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009 at 7:56 PM@dunderklumpen:
Ahh! Yes.. thank you! :) Now I know all their names.. :) Now that I have watched the video again, 金鑫 does say her name at the start... but I am just a bad listener I guess. :)
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009 at 9:32 AMPete.. which one is Jinxin? the one between you and John or the one after John? who is the other? :)
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009 at 7:59 AMCan I ask (QingWen.. haha) who is the person that appear between Pete and John on the video? And also the person after John? I know everyone else that appeared on the video but not those two.. :)
Posted on: The Final Show
January 10, 2009 at 6:51 AMDear Amber,
Wow.. so it is really true. I'd heard from other sources about a month ago that you had left (or were leaving) but I was really hoping it wasn't true. As many before me have already said, the sunshine you brought to the ChinesePOD line-up has always been a ray of hope and delight for me. Your beauty in terms of your person, mind and soul will live on in my memories every time I think back on this time in my learning Chinese.
It is obvious to me from the video that your friends at ChinesePOD made for you, that you are leaving behind more than just a job. You are also leaving behind a surrogate family and I am very sad for you and them in that regard. However, I can hear in your voice that you are ready for the new New York experience. It's a little like how I feel about China, I guess. Shanghai (and some of the other Chinese mainland cities) is a lot like Sydney in a lot of ways but also not like Sydney in a lot of ways, and I feel myself drawn to it in a way that I just can't shake. So I really understand where you are coming from in that regard.
I have no plans to visit the USA any time soon or even in the years to come but should fate lead me there of its own design, then I will look you up.. though you will probably be some famous movie, TV or radio star by then! :) If you're ever in Sydney, or in China by the time I eventually get there permanently, you can buy me that beer you owe me, ok? :)
All the best our dear, dear Amber... we will all miss you so much.
Luke
潘光明
Posted on: Outrageous Power Bill
January 6, 2009 at 7:25 AMHehe.. just play dumb, does it work? :)
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 7: A Firing Afoot?
January 19, 2009 at 7:33 PMAwesome lesson! I'm not sure what you did in planning and designing this lesson but I felt that you just got it perfect this time. Just the right balance of English and Chinese to fully understand what is going on.
Maybe it is a combination of this and what Bababardwan said about there being a bunch of words that I already know being reused, rather than the introduction of a whole new level (intermediate) of vocab..