User Comments - luobinzhenmei

Posted on: Early January News

Thank you, Cassielin and Light487, for the extra videos.  We want to learn the tongue twister and the lyrics so we can impress our friends.

Posted on: Early January News

Welcome, Matt.  Can we have a lesson on (really simple) tongue twisters?  Maybe it would help us learn the jiang/zhang zhu/ju ming/min sounds that we auditorially handicapped 老外 Lao Wai, have trouble with.

Posted on: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)

And for take out or “doggiebagging"

打包

or to dress up

打扮

and part time work

打工。

Great list.  We love Qing Wen.

Posted on: Food Oddities and Eye Exercises

At the end of a flight on a Chinese airline the flight attendants gave us all stretching exercises to help us recover from the flight.  Eye exercises were among them, but I don't remember what they were.  I thought they were just rolling our eyes to the left and right and around.  Do Chinese do that too, or was I just remembering from my own childhood? 

Anyhow, I loved the idea of flight attendants leading us in stretching, legitimizing what I want to do but don't have the nerve on American flights.

Thank you, Amber and JP and weird food tester guy, for a very enjoyable listen.

Posted on: Karaoke

I've always wanted to try Karaoke when in China.  Now that I know that the sound systems help people who 跑调 I may get brave enough to try 月亮代表我的心.

Or is that really too corny?  Should I really learn a more modern song?

Posted on: The Magic Word 让 (Ràng)

After the lesson on 请 I got to say 请让一下

on the 地铁.  No one jumped out of my way which

makes me think I said it just like a Chinese and they

didn't know it was a gray haired 老外.  So even though I had to push a lot to get out of the train, I was convinced that my language skills had improved.  Next time I'll tell the crowd that if they don't 让一下 it will

让 我很难过!

Posted on: New Lessons, New President

"Mark Ndesandjo is the son of Barack Obama’s late father and his third wife, an American woman named Ruth Nidesand who runs the up-market Maduri kindergarten in Nairobi."

Times Online July 27, 2998

But we've heard that Mark doesn't like to be in the spotlight, so taking the pseudonym "Edward" is appropriate. ;-) 加油, Edward. Keep coming to Chinesepod. 

When a bunch of young Chinese women in front of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum saw my Obama shirt, they all yelled "Obama" and jumped in the air.  Our "survey" since arriving in Shanghai has been Chinese-- 100% for Obama, one American Republican businessman-- against Obama (but not for McCain, just against Obama).

Posted on: Making Negative Comparisons

Thanks, Wenjong.  I too find the lesson on fast forward and therefore impossible to understand.

I'll try downloading and then I can return to this page and read all the helpful Chinese phrases.

Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod

You guys are so cute--so sheepish about actually charging money for your hard work (Ken especially sounds SO embarrassed).  When I think of all the things we have to pay for that we don't really want, it is about time that we have to pay for your hard work and the new features.  Don't bring in too many new people-- we love you guys the way you are. 

Posted on: Chinese Birthdays and Local Hospitals

Happy Birthday Dear Amber,

The hospital story was so funny.  Back in the 80s I got sick in Lushan.  Everyone in the hospital came into my room to watch as I got an antibiotic shot in the butt!  There was a spittoon in the waiting room and as I left the effort was too much and I vomited into the spittoon.  I was so ashamed but people, complete strangers, came over to comfort me and help me, and the head doctor ran over to cradle my head as I retched.  I was accompanied by friends so I didn't need help but the concern was so very heart-warming.  I thought: with love like this who cares if the floors are dirty.