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mayue
Posted on: More and More
December 9, 2007 at 6:21 PMFunny how no comments have been posted for this Qing Wen! Probably too late now and nobody will ever see my comment, but just wanted to try my luck and mention that it would be useful to have some of the examples used in the audio posted here in writing. I remember it was done in the past and I found it very useful.
Posted on: Basic Shapes
September 13, 2007 at 2:14 AMJohn, I noticed that there have been no grammar tags in the last couple of lessons. Hope this is not an indication that the grammar section is falling by the wayside. Also, in the grammar section, I noticed that there is no roll-over pinyin in some instances, e.g. in the introductory list of adverbs. I am hoping this will be added soon!
Posted on: Introducing the Grammar Guide
July 17, 2007 at 12:09 AMI have been waiting for something like this since I discovered ChinesePod, about a year ago! Thanks, this promises to be a great resource!!! I am a little disappointed though that, when it comes to examples, pinyin is only accessible through the pop-ups. I wish examples could be displayed in pinyin as well (I mean the whole sentence at once). Something like the way exercises are set up at the end of lessons, where you can display either pinyin or characters (trad. or simpl.), would be ideal, if some learners do not want to have the interference of pinyin -- I must admit I am focusing almost exclusively on spoken Chinese and rely heavily on pinyin.
Posted on: Name-Calling, Chinese-Style
July 8, 2007 at 11:16 AMThanks, Connie, for posting the examples! I was grabbing my dictionnary, when I realized the answers to my questions were right there in the first posting. I really like the format of Qing Wen (i.e. the mix of Chinese--with Connie, English--with Amber, and further explanations--with Ken. Hope more are coming!
Posted on: Introducing the Fix
June 23, 2007 at 12:30 PMThis is a very interesting new feature! One comment though: I think it would be useful to have a visual link somehow to the key vocabulary. When there is a word I don't know in the vocabulary introduced, I would like to be able to get to the written form without having to grab my dictionary.
Posted on: I can't buy my size
June 6, 2007 at 12:17 PMAmber, Thanks for the long explanation. This is really great. Which leads me to ask for more!! Could you give a few examples for the other 2 types of "de"s?...:)
Posted on: I can't buy my size
June 1, 2007 at 1:28 PMAmber, Thanks for the explanation about the different "de" patterns... but I must admit I don't quite get it. Could you give examples for each pattern? For one thing, I don't see how you3 de mai4 fits in -- isn't mai4 a verb? Thanks in advance!
Posted on: I can't buy my size
May 31, 2007 at 3:26 AMKen, I thought ChinesePod was planning to launch a Grammar component soon! Is it still in the works? I agree with Piers that, as learners, we need to be able to find out more about grammar and structures and it would be great if that was integrated into your site (not necessarily in the lessons themselves, but in some section of the site -- right now the function tags are rather useless I would say, though I haven't checked them for a while...)
Posted on: Late Getting Back
May 17, 2007 at 3:04 AMHi John, I am puzzled as well with the use of 的de in the expansion sentences (e.g. ta1 ying1gai1 zai4 jia1 de).
Posted on: Excuse Us!
December 14, 2007 at 3:56 AMThanks for getting this episode back and running! Could you put up the main examples you gave in the comments section, like you do sometimes? I missed the one with the annoyed tone of voice. Thanks.