User Comments - penben
penben
Posted on: Addressing People
August 4, 2008 at 11:55 AMWhen I first met my future in-laws, I had to learn 阿姨 and 叔叔 to address them. Then, when I got married, they asked me to call them 妈妈 and 爸爸 (didn't stick though, felt a little weird). But, then when my daughter was born, I then had to learn 姥姥 and 姥爷. Pretty soon I'll have mastered them all! Ok, perhaps I've got a long way to go, but it'll be a fun ride.
Posted on: War Zone
August 1, 2008 at 12:06 PMI loved the sound effects for this lesson. Your sound team does a great job!
Posted on: Tool Delivery
July 31, 2008 at 12:06 PMWhat an extremely useful (and funny) lesson! Now I can more easily do projects with my father in law.
Posted on: Aussie Rules
July 30, 2008 at 6:54 PMAfter adding vocab from this lesson (simplified) some of the words showed up as their traditional versions in my vocab list. Aussie rules football shows up as follows: 澳式橄榄球. Turns out the Microsoft IME has a bug! It looks like whoever is putting in the vocab at Cpod must be using the Microsoft IME as well. What happens is that as you type the pinyin, ào and gǎn show up in Simplified as options, but once you accept they switch to traditional. The differences are quite subtle so it would be easy to miss.
Posted on: Olympics and more...
July 18, 2008 at 2:01 AMYour olympic site is quite spectacular. I'm impressed, guys! And please, put up all the links you talked about. Thanks!
Posted on: The Attitude Pattern (yǒu shénme... 有什么...)
July 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM加拿大菜有什么好吃的？：） Oh wait, I remember those fries covered with gravy and cheese.... I may have to retract that.
Posted on: Weekend Plans
July 11, 2008 at 3:54 PMSo what's the difference between 逛街 guàngjiē and 购物 gòuwù？Is the first a noun and the latter a verb?
Posted on: ...都 (dōu): The Bryan Adams pattern
July 10, 2008 at 2:41 PMI think you guys should produce a Connie-Amber duet of english songs translated to Chinese. It would be great!
Posted on: The Mean Boss
July 9, 2008 at 4:54 PMI have to wholeheartedly disagree with jonsg. Your intro was 太棒了! 加油! You all have some great skills!
Posted on: Rock, Scissors, Cloth
August 7, 2008 at 12:43 PMHey, can anyone tell what they are talking about in the background? I hear 石头剪刀布 there as well.
Also, I think the 3rd exercise would be much better if you had the option of entering characters or the pinyin. This would give us practice with the characters and eliminate the issue of figuring out where the spaces should be in the pinyin (I always have trouble with that).