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Posted on: An Urgent Call to the Embassy
March 4, 2012 at 1:21 PMYes, I know the Skritter programmers have made several attempts to contact Chinese Pod to try to restore the service, but so far did not get any response. It happened when the API was updated. Skritter really helps CPod subscribers get the most out of Chinese Pod. I hope that the interruption of service was just an unintended consequence. Please bring back CPod vocabulary lists on Skritter!
Posted on: Big Numbers
March 2, 2012 at 5:04 AMEarlier I said that "trillion" is 兆 zhào, but 万亿 wànyì is commonly used.
Posted on: Big Numbers
February 29, 2012 at 3:55 AMmrzhou,
well, extending your soundalike mnemonic, maybe this will help you to remember that 10,000 is ONE unit of something (one "wàn"), and not ten of something as it is in English. I think "getting" wàn is a key part of the lesson, because the the following three higher powers of ten (十万，百万，千万） don't line up neatly with English, so one has to learn to think in terms of 万。
Posted on: Big Numbers
February 28, 2012 at 1:06 PMand on beyond tera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera-
Here you can see short and long scale equivalences.
Posted on: Big Numbers
February 27, 2012 at 6:49 AMyou are welcome
trillion has its own word and character, : 兆 zhào
also, if you are counting by "yì" and a billlion is ten "yì" (which is correct) then ten times more than that is 10 billion, or 100 "yì", if you follow my logic. So one hundred "yì" does not make a trillion, only 10 billion.
Posted on: Big Numbers
February 27, 2012 at 5:56 AM
correct: 十万 One Hundred Thousand [100,000]
correct: 一百万 1 Million [1,000,000]
incorrect 千万 = 10 million (not 1 Billion)
incorrect: 十亿 = 1 Billion (not 1 Trillion)
China's population is 1.4 billion, not 14 billion.
Posted on: Teaching English to the Neighbors
February 24, 2012 at 1:37 PMnever say never. I don't think we will come to agreement on this, but for what it may be worth, one of my own bad habits that sometimes holds me back is second-guessing the teacher. So just take each podcast for what it is, relax and go with the flow, and trust that you really are learning and progressing.
Posted on: When is Your Birthday?
February 24, 2012 at 1:17 PMsorry I did not answer you question directly, Jacob. babyeggplant's answer below is better than mine. I have problems hearing the difference myself, but thought I would give you a shot at it. I was just reading on Sinosplice about all the bad advice on the web about how to generate Mandarin sounds, so I did not dare to try to explain.
Have a look.
http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/pronunciation-of-mandarin-chinese
Posted on: When is Your Birthday?
February 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM
Click on the arrow to the right of the second sentence in the expansion section to hear the 日in 日语。
http://chinesepod.com/lessons/a-correction-of-tones/expansion
Do the same in the vocablary lis in the following lesson to hear 热。
Posted on: Playing Mahjong
March 6, 2012 at 4:14 AMThanks, this is neat. I've already forwarded the link to at least one person. Expect it to "go viral" ;)