User Comments - mudphud
mudphud
Posted on: Which City Do You Like?
July 15, 2012, 03:33 PMI am using the chinese pod android application. it works very well. especially the new version. however, I can't type in pinyin , so I will just ask my question English. in other lessons the adverb goes before the verb. this is true for prepositional phrases acting like adverbs. in particular, the zai plus location goes before the verb. is zhu an exception? or could you say "I in beijing live"?
Posted on: Making Introductions
April 02, 2012, 03:29 AMWould it be more common to put a "qǐng wèn" 请问in the first line?
Posted on: Housekeeping!
August 23, 2011, 05:07 AMThanks, Connie. We were in Xi'an two weeks ago and I got several complements (as well as some blank stares when I obviously blew the tones). I told a good number of people about ChinesePod.
There are so many things about Chinese language that are fun to ponder, e.g., time like water under gravity flows down hill is one of them. Above is the past and below is future like we are all on a cosmic ski slope. I knew about 上个月 shàng ge yuè = last month, but I didn't know you use the same for weekend. Makes sense.
Posted on: Housekeeping!
August 22, 2011, 11:33 AMI was going to ask how to say, "This weekend, I will clean my house" but google came up with, "我周末要打扫房子 (wǒ zhōu mò yào dǎ sǎo fáng zi)" (房子 fáng zi rather than 家 jiā). So I take it that 家 jiā doesn't mean the physical building?
I know that it is more elementary than newbie, but how would one say, "This past weekend, I should have cleaned my home, but I slept" (which was true!).
Posted on: I'm gonna be Late
July 15, 2011, 03:00 AMI like dilu. She does a great job with the lessons. You can go to Rosetta Stone and get boring lessons where I am sure no one lets a "colorful" word slip. Chinese Pod are real people telling you about real Chinese.
Back on topic. How would you say, "I will be there in 15 minutes"? (As opposed to, "I will be arriving 15 minutes late".) I was thinking...
Wǒ yào dào le shí wǔ fēn zhōng. 我要到了十五分钟。
or maybe...
Wǒ huì dào shí wǔ fēn zhōng. 我会到十五分钟。
Posted on: Rice First
April 12, 2011, 11:44 PMI frequently tell my impatient kids 等等(děng děng). Is there a tone change (third third goes to...)?
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
February 16, 2011, 07:17 PMMy experience is the same as John's where even elderly are offering seats to me. I respond, " 爷爷/奶奶 坐 吧 , 坐 吧 (yéye/nǎinai zuò ba, zuò ba) - Grandfather/grandmother, please sit. That always earns me a smile.
Posted on: August, Study Tips and Expo Insights
August 01, 2010, 10:30 PMWhere I am at and where others might be: I am an "Ellie" as far as vocab and speaking and a "Newbie" as far as learning to read and write. As such, each day I try to review an Elie lesson orally and aurally and to do the Skritter for the vocab on the Newbie lessons. I have a feeling that people aren't availing themselves of Skritter. I think you need a premium account for it but it is the best and probably most overlooked benefit in my mind.
I use Anki on a daily basis rather than the CPod flash cards.
I hear tell of Chinese news sites that have videos, but haven't been able to find a good link. I have stumbled on some. I think that it is good to listen to native speakers even if I am picking up words here and there and not really comprehending.
Posted on: Don't do that!
July 31, 2010, 08:20 AMThanks for checking. It was just my American ear.
Posted on: Pens and Notebooks
November 07, 2012, 09:24 AMTo add to this, MDBG dictionary gives the measure word, 本 běn, not 个 ge, for the word notebook 本子, i.e., 一本本子, yī běn běn zi.