User Comments - pchenery

Posted on: Don't Never Say Never

Since we have the spam-bot, I might as well practice some of the Qing Wen vocab:

wo conglai mei jian guo lucy520

wo conglai mei kan guo lucy520 de boke

wo conglai bu yuehui zhe zhong de nuren

Are these correct ?

Posted on: The Olympic Marathon

well, i was thinking that CPOD could do a lesson on Boston itself, as part of the "City Series"...doesn't have to be focused on the marathon...there's other historical stuff that would be interesting in Chinese...the Boston Tea Party, the prominent authors from there (ie: Louisa May Alcott "Little Women"), the civil war sites, the Red Sox and the legendary Fenway Park...etc... 

Posted on: The Olympic Marathon

thanks bababardwan !

hi pretzellogic...my longest training run for that 24 hour race was only 3 hours...but my weekly mileage was quite high leading up to the event...plus I had won a few 6 hour events in the months leading up to it...

ultra training is not much different from regular marathon or half marathon training...but the race pace is quite slower...

good luck at the BAA Half...I have run the Boston Marathon several times...it's a great City...hope CPOD does a lesson on it... 

Posted on: Interviewing an Ayi

There's some Chinese characters that appear in this Ayi Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9-R9S1m4dA&feature=related

Can you find them ?  Translate them if you can avoid being distracted !

These are North American Ayi's.  Are the same services available in China ?

Posted on: The Olympic Marathon

I just won the Canadian 24 Hour Championship race in Ottawa this past weekend. I ran 212 km and broke the record for Men age 50 - 54.

How do you say "I broke the record" in Chinese ?

Thanks !

Posted on: Keys, Wallet, Phone

Thanks for another useful lesson.

Here's a grammar question:

Why does the tone for "shang" change to a neutral tone in the following:

手机不在桌子上

Isn't it normally a 4th tone ?

Posted on: The My Minefield

Yes...I have already made the "possessive" mistake.

When I was riding on the subway, I said to my Chinese friend: "Zhe shi wo de ditie zhan" (This is my subway station stop).

She laughed and asked me if I really owned the subway station.

So, what is the correct way of saying this ?

Posted on: 磁悬浮

Tvan, your post doesn't relate to the lesson content, so it will have to be deleted. However, before it gets sent to oblivion, here is my version of "Criticize in Private":

批判在私下

Posted on: 磁悬浮

I agree, if any comments should be censored, all those posts by Dave the Hulk should be deleted. Although he references the lesson, his comments don't contribute to language learning or this lesson at all.

I'm a little peeved about having my innocent comment deleted.

If you adopt this policy of deleting non-relevant comments...you can go back to every lesson in CPOD and wipe clean about 90% of the posts.

Posted on: Taking the HSK

OK Clay,

You have a deal !

I can't slurp coffee like you, but my language skills are probably on par !

Plus I'm Canadian, Amber will appreciate that.