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Posted on: A Creepy Guy
August 4, 2012 at 12:40 AM

呵呵，我过一两个礼拜看了Financial Times 有 Rupert Murdoch 和 邓文迪 的照片。 真奇怪。 我也打算了赚几亿块钱，

Posted on: WeChat
August 4, 2012 at 12:28 AM

What is LookAround?

Posted on: WeChat
August 3, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Wasn't CPOD promoting QQ International some years back?

Posted on: I'm gonna be Late
August 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM

yikes! I just wasted a couple minutes of my life reading this thread. Can we talk about Chinese? I would love a lesson about where certain Chinese words fit on the continuum of slang / mildly crude / slightly offensive, before I make an ass of myself (again) trying to be flip in Chinese.

Posted on: WeChat
August 3, 2012 at 4:04 AM

And LINE, and What's App, and . . .

Not a new software concept, but very cutting edge lesson for CPod.  Can't wait to listen .  .

Posted on: Do You Have Any Questions?
July 31, 2012 at 4:00 AM

Great lesson.  Is it or isn't it?  是不是？ A long time ago I was one of those foreign learners who thought that somehow Beijing should be the place where the "most correct" Chinese was spoken.  John's comment that Mandarin (普通话） (pǔtōnghuà ) is just a "generalized" form of Northern dialect (to which Beijing's type of speaking belongs) is very interesting.  I guess there is no "place" to go to immerse oneself in "proper" Chinese, other than CCTV television, as Di Lu suggests.  Here in the US sometimes if I mention that I have studied Chinese people will ask "Oh, Cantonese or Mandarin?", not realizing that there are literally hundreds of languages grouped under the common name of "Chinese," as John points out 

Posted on: Chinese Wordplay
July 29, 2012 at 5:43 PM

欧元区 The Eurozone

Posted on: Can You Lend Me Money?
July 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM

I see "jia li you shi" (我家里有点儿事） is translated as "having family issues" (so maybe someone is having personal problems, such as got sick and could not work.). I suppose "zai jia li you shi" might mean there is a problem in the house (for example the plumbing is not working.） Or does 在家里有事 just sound wrong no matter what the meaning?

Posted on: Fan Death
July 20, 2012 at 1:26 AM

以前韩国没有足够的电力。 所以政府 让人知道 空调会影响身体。

Posted on: Fan Death
July 20, 2012 at 1:06 AM

是韩国人的一种信仰。 他们也怕空调。