User Comments - urbandweller

Posted on: Afraid of Dogs

哦小狗狗真可爱！哈哈！

Posted on: Chinese Birthdays and Local Hospitals

祝你生日快乐！

加油Amber! 加油Amber! 加油Amber!

Posted on: Traffic

i will be watching it over...and over...and over ...and over...until i can identify all with no hesitation....now i can be visually brainwashed by cpod too!! horray!

you know it's acutally quite hypnotizing.....

must watch video...

must obey cpod....

must speak chinese....

哈哈哈哈哈哈！

Posted on: Traffic

哇！ 太精彩了！！我很喜欢了！！

seriously...i loved the music, the characters flashing on the screen, the way it speeds up and slows down and the overall "feel" of the video...very cool cpod!! cant wait for the next one!

Posted on: I Want This

@ fromchina

welcome! there are many other chinese people on cpod...this is a wonderful website for people of different cultures to make friends and help one another

do you have a Skype account or email?? i'm sure some of us...myself included would like to make new chinese friends...

Posted on: I Want This

哈哈哈！good luck with that one Jenny...looks like you guys need to start a "Frenchpod" ASAP!

qiren, 你是法国人马？？

:)

Posted on: Olympic Excitement

i still havent been able to see the whole opening ceremony...this is real bummer. I can only see cips I dont watch TV so i was hoping to see it on the net SOMEWHERE! Unfortunetly everytime i try to view it i get blocked one way or another...i am really frusterated. I cannot even watch Bazza's link because i am in the UK. I think that is totaly crap. Does anyone have a link that i can check out the whole thing here in California. I know its got to be available somewhere out there for me. I can only see clips on NBC. that is lame since they are supposed to be our olympic site for the US.

Posted on: Olympic Excitement

i am in california...i woke up this morning around 8am and did a quick search for "olympics opening ceremony"...i found a link pretty quick and watched the video...now its in the afternoon here and i would like to watch it again...only problem is that i cant find one freakin place on the net to see it!! anybody help me with this?? Its driving me crazy...i thought NBC would have it but i searched their site and i dont see it...has it not been released worldwide yet?? can someone tell me whats up?? i wonder how i was able to see it this morning but not now!

thanks

-Adam

Posted on: Olympic Excitement

I am so proud to be learning this language at this moment in history!

在这儿，和大家一起！奥运加油！中国加油！

Posted on: Sales Call

你好(Ni hao) Aliyah,

First, I believe that the “g” is usually combined with the “n” before it. The "ng" when pronounced together makes more of a muffled nasal sound. The "g" does not come from your throat here. So you really won't here the "g" pronounced strongly when used in this context.(put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and try  making a sound, then you will know what i mean) This along with pronouncing other things in Chinese will take some time to figure out how to do properly. Try and practice often and focus on the sound to get it right. Talk to a native chinese person whenever possible and they can help you master the sound.

Secondly, yes there is a big difference between Ni (3rdtone) and Nin (2nd tone)

"Ni3" will be used in casual conversation between friends and people within your own age group.

"Nin2" is more of a polite (formal) way to address someone usually for older people or someone of a higher status, or for customer service. Example: you may here a waitress or cab driver call you this becasue they are serving you and wanting to be polite to a customer. You typically wont use this to address your everyday friends. It would sound strange.

Check out some of the older newbie lessons because Ken and Jenny will mention often about how to use these "you" words correctly.

hope that helps :)

-Adam