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Posted on: Dreaming of You
August 29, 2012 at 2:02 PMI have a similar question. It seems that I used to be able to download lessons as mp3 files by just right clicking on the player, but it looks like that function is not available any more. I usually use iTunes or the Chinese Pod mobile app, so it hasn't been an issue, but I wanted to put a file on another mp3 player and I don't know how to do it any more. Can anyone on CPod staff help? Other users?
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 26, 2012 at 12:13 PMSounds about right. Your reply made me smile and remember the CPod lesson on national stereotypes; "法国人都爱喝葡萄酒" etc.
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 25, 2012 at 3:38 PMdoes 不敢当 sound equally stilted?
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 25, 2012 at 3:26 PMDon't keep us in suspense . . . what did they say about your beard? { : -) >>>~
Posted on: Visiting Taiwan
August 25, 2012 at 3:24 PMTry typing "Taiwan lingo" in the CPod search box above; you will find a few lessons.
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 25, 2012 at 3:57 AMI think I have come across a lot of things through Chinese Pod that foreigners seem to learn from textbooks as being "common Chinese phrases" from when, in fact, they are quite uncommon.
Off the top of my head:
你好吗?
哪里，哪里
马马虎虎
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 24, 2012 at 12:40 PMThanks, actually now that I think about it it was probably John Cale, not Lou Reed, and the song was Faces and Names. But it is an authentic Warhol quote (or at least his ghost writer really wrote it) because I saw it in one of his books. Something to the effect that if someone in their thirties made their hair white people would say "wow, that old guy has a lot of energy." Maybe that's why Chinese people sometimes misstate their age by ADDING years. Or is that another cultural relic of a bygone era by which I am perhaps revealing my own advanced years and decrepit state?
Posted on: Manly Beards or Pretty Boys?
August 24, 2012 at 12:51 AMAndy Warhol suggested dying your hair white while still young. As Lou Reed quoted him in one tribute song to Warhol "if you look older when you are not, as you really age you look the same." Some advice for you young poddies to consider. 有的女人说我的胡子让我像老头，也有的女人喜欢。 我喜欢会欣赏成熟男人的女人，嘿嘿。
Posted on: Repaying a Debt
August 23, 2012 at 3:53 AMVera,
好像有一门课程关于民间融资， 但是我记不清楚 是那门。 除了当铺，还有什么民间借贷公司？ 我知道温州市这种类公司的中心，但是我不知道中文怎么商量。看来不是银行，也不是当铺。 怎么说？
谢谢
荚
Posted on: Dreaming of You
August 29, 2012 at 11:28 PMtoianw，
Thanks, that worked. I think I was looking for "save target as", not realizing that "save link as" does the same thing. Maybe my brain has a holdover from Internet Explorer. (I used Firefox exclusively for ChinesePod now.)