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pchenery
Posted on: She's Easy
October 9, 2008 at 9:08 PMdoezeedoats,
to be fair, Jenny and John do comment in the lesson that the term can be applied to either gender
also, this is where CPOD is a bit more innovative and realistic than other podcasts...
real life discussions are not always politically correct
Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 3, 2008 at 6:20 PMhi fred_02071622,
thanks for that explanation...
now i'm clear
Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 2, 2008 at 1:57 AMOK, here's a special 1,000 anniversary grammar question:
记得和想起来有什么区别？
Can they both be used interchangeably ?
Posted on: A Very Special Day
October 2, 2008 at 1:49 AMCongrats to the CPOD Team and thanks for every single lesson.
By the way, why does it say 1,159 lessons on the intro webpage ?
Posted on: Introducing a Friend
October 1, 2008 at 3:28 AM你给你们介绍一下。
ni3 gei3 ni3men jie4shao4 yi1xia4
To me, the literal translation is straight forward:
"You give yourselves a little introduction"
I'm not sure why this is unclear ?
Posted on: Don't Never Say Never
September 21, 2008 at 6:03 PMgreggs,
out of interest, i just did a quick count of characters that have more than one meaning / pronunciation...
i counted 259 such characters out of the list of 2,500 most common characters...more than 10% of the total...
when you think about it, English also has a ton of words with more than one meaning and so I would guess that a Chinese learner of English would run into similar challenges
Posted on: Don't Never Say Never
September 21, 2008 at 3:13 AMlight487,
perhaps something like this:
chule kai wan xiao de shihou hai, wo conglai bu shuo huai de hua biede ren
i think you have to use the "chule...hai" construction, to mean "except", but I'm not sure how to incorporate into the "conglai bu" pattern...
Posted on: Don't Never Say Never
September 21, 2008 at 2:26 AMaspiredeath,
yes..but more like "I never date that type of woman" (present tense)..not the past tense
Posted on: Qipao Dresses and Marathons in China
October 11, 2008 at 5:54 PMPete, thanks for the insights into marathon running in China and good luck on November 1st.
I have looked into running that Great Wall Marathon, but it seems that you have to go through that Danish tour company and pay several thousand dollars, not only for the marathon but for additional tour packages and accommodation.
I will consider running some of the regular city marathons some day. But some of the application procedures appear a bit onerous, for example, the Shanghai Marathon requires the runner to get a complete medical, doctors certificate etc..before you can enter it.
Hope you can post some pics of your Taiwan marathon for us.