User Comments - mikeinewshot
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Posted on: Chinese Parks and Working as a Tutor
April 6, 2008 at 8:13 PMI would like to apologise in advance for this post, as I may come over as a drag, but ... I was quite concerned at Chinesepod, which tries to be a professional language education site, actively encouraging people with no language teaching qualifications at all to teach English to Chinese people.
Posted on: Detroit
April 6, 2008 at 7:48 PMWell I never thought that I would learn for the first time that Motown means Motor City from Chinesepod!
Posted on: 杀价高手
March 28, 2008 at 7:25 AMSomething has happened to the format of the vocabulary page. When I cut and paste from it, I get stuff like: http://s3.amazonaws.com/chinesepod/0834/mp3/glossary/source/rec-1206671106640-0.mp30 embedded. Dialogue page is ok
Posted on: Art Museum
March 27, 2008 at 11:06 AMWell Dannyboy, you may be an English teacher in the US, but I can assure you that in England we agree with Jenny and say "admission free", so don't be so quick to critisize Jenny's English.
Posted on: Cheering
March 21, 2008 at 7:11 AMI tried the listen and type exercise for the first time - It didn't work. I could not get IE to accept input of any kind into the spaces.
Posted on: Relativity
March 17, 2008 at 12:24 PMmore banter vocab: 物理 wu4 li3 physics / physical 夸张 kua1 zhang1 to exaggerate / vaunted / overstated / exaggerated 比喻 bi3 yu4 metaphor / analogy / figure of speech / figuratively 俗语 su2 yu3 common saying / proverb 枯萎 ku1 wei3 to wilt / to wither / wilted / withered / drained / enervated / exhausted 流行 liu2 xing2 to spread / to rage (of contagious disease) / popular / fashionable / prevalent / (math.) manifold 歌曲 ge1 qu3 song 情歌 qing2 ge1 love song 叶子 ye4 zi5 foliage / leaf 物体 wu4 ti3 object / body / substance 机器 ji1 qi4 machine 范围 fan4 wei2 range / scope / limit / extent 磁场 ci2 chang3 magnetic field 尺寸 chi3 cun5 size / dimension / measurement 高雅 gao1 ya3 dainty / elegance / elegant 品味 pin3 wei4 taste 枯燥 ku1 zao4 dry and dull / uninteresting
Posted on: Relativity
March 17, 2008 at 8:18 AMOh yes of course! I have got it now - wuli - 物理. I get caught out by wu sounding like u
Posted on: Relativity
March 17, 2008 at 8:16 AMWhat does Jenny say near the beginning? Sounds like 'wode ooli feichang cha'. What is ooli - or is it youli?
Posted on: MSN and QQ
March 4, 2008 at 8:31 PMIf anyone outside China has recently successfully set up and used QQ to talk to people in China I would be delighted if they could give chapter and verse on how to do it
Posted on: SBTG: Special Economic Zones
April 13, 2008 at 6:54 AMIn addition to 设立, 建设, 建立 which are dealt with in the podcast, there are also 创建, 创立, 创办, 创设, 成立 and so on, and so on....