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Posted on: Focus and Specialization
December 28, 2011 at 7:52 PM

Listens, and clicks "Subscribed/Studied" .. Ok its cheating, but it counts against my UI quota ;-)

Posted on: Detective Li 10: Final Mission (Part 4)
October 27, 2011 at 9:51 AM

I am having flashbacks to my old high school intermediate English readers. Bit like a simplified Sherlock Holmes story.

Posted on: Management Localization
October 27, 2011 at 9:25 AM

Seems a bribe (for the example multinational company) is defined as any gift with a value over US$ 25.

A box of mooncakes is over 200 RMB. According to Google: 200 Chinese yuan = 31.49 US dollars.

In the story, both employees cannot receive mooncakes from clients, nor clients receive them from the company. As in both cases this would be considered a bribe.

Posted on: Video Contest, ChinesePod Korea and the Store
October 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM

Lots of products -- but no t-shirts !

Can I have this one with a ChinesePod logo ?

http://studymorechinese.com/photo/can-white-people-wear-this

Posted on: Detective Li 4: The Circus Troupe
July 21, 2011 at 1:08 PM

There were no fingerprints on the desk, so LuFu must have been lying about him working at the table.

There never was a diamond, and this whole case is just insurance fraud.

Posted on: Love Tangle 1: A Suspicious Text Message
June 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM

Nice, thanks for the transcript!

Posted on: Registering for a Dating Website
January 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM

Love the internet vocabulary! How about a podcast about the Chinese internet? Some news about whats happening with all home grown versions of facebook etc.

Posted on: Flu Vaccination
January 14, 2011 at 5:58 AM

Not sure about old people, but I have heard 幾歲 used all the way up to my age....

Posted on: Ways of Using ChinesePod
September 24, 2010 at 5:08 AM

Download the ChinesePod application through the App Store and login. You will see all your bookmarked lessons and can download and play the audio files from within the iPhone app.

Its pretty neat.

Posted on: Ways of Using ChinesePod
September 19, 2010 at 1:32 PM

Since everyone has their own way to study with ChinesePod below is what I tend to do.

It has become a daily ritual : 

  1. During breakfast load a new lesson into my iPhone
  2. Listen to the lesson on the way to work
  3. Read the dialogue, vocabulary and expansion
  4. Start tagging new keywords into the flashcards
  5. Review the new flashcards for the first time
  6. Find some time after lunch to review all my active flashcards a few times more
  7. On the way back, listen to the same lesson again and read all content again. Also review the flashcards a few more times.
  8. After dinner, try to find time to complete the exercises for the lesson.
  9. Mark the lesson as "studied", feel good.
  10. Rinse, repeat. 
I keep about 40-60 flashcards active at one time, for me this is the optimal number. More and reviewing takes too long and unfamiliar words don't come back often enough. 
I  heavily depend on lesson content repetition. I won't retain all the new words , but at least they become familiar so that on a second pass I can more quickly recognize them..
Just my $0.02..... I am curious what other ways people have found to work through the lessons.