User Comments - user76423
user76423
Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod
September 4, 2008 at 6:57 AMauntie68:
it seems that zhanglihua & cassielin are already put off: they both didn't post anything since the end of August.
The number of posts in the upper-Newbie podcasts seems to go down too.
user6836 says: "The pages often load very slow -- the vocab page has for me become mostly useless."
That's also my impression. The website is nice to look at, but functionality and speed are in many areas rather poor.
From own point of view, traditional character support is also VERY poor. But I asked for this so many times (it hinders me besides other things from subscribing).
I am really tired to post this again and again. Nobody seems to be interested in this, anyway.
Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod
September 3, 2008 at 7:14 PMhttp://chinesepod.com/terms says in a footnote:
*ChinesePod lessons 1-1127 only, MP3 lesson content is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported license.
The last podcast has the number 979.
Seems that "1127" in the footnote needs to be corrected...
Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod
September 2, 2008 at 7:08 AMIf GermanPod would be up and running I can help other learners with their problems in German. But if I have to pay for a subscription as a native speaker, I would not do that.
The same with Chinese people... So I expect that no native Chinese are able to help/answer in the conversation section of the higher podcasts.
It's a pity. I don't see a solution for this.
Posted on: The My Minefield
August 31, 2008 at 10:08 AMI would never call or speak about my wife (from Taiwan) as "我老婆".
It shows a lot of disrespect. It's about the same like in Germany, when some guys call her wife "meine Alte" (my old one).
I think no 太太 is very happy to hear 老婆. Maybe in the PRC it's different.
Posted on: Finding a Taxi
July 14, 2008 at 6:49 AMJenny Zhu said:
出租车/chu1 zu1 che1 is comprehensible to all across China.
Maybe it is comprehensible, but in Taiwan nobody says this and it is avoided by all means. In Taiwan everybody uses
計程車 jìchéngchē.
Posted on: Lesson
July 13, 2008 at 9:01 PMGreat stuff. ChinesePod's lesson number 9001...
Posted on: 了 (le): Something's About to Happen
July 13, 2007 at 5:54 AMI just found this, and I realized Qing Wen is available for free account users - thanks! I always thought QW is a Premium service...
Posted on: The Old Man Who Moved a Mountain
June 21, 2007 at 8:09 PMGreat lesson, congratulations. Such kind of lessons I like most. Thanks.
Posted on: Changes on ChinesePod
September 7, 2008 at 8:07 PMJust found out how to access legally all CP podcasts (and more) plus text - and at no cost:
Thank you, Confucius Institute & ChinesePod!
PS. You may also learn characters...
http://www.confuciusinstitute.net/tags?tag=characters
or sing songs...
http://www.confuciusinstitute.net/tags?tag=songs
or learn idioms...
http://www.confuciusinstitute.net/tags?tag=idioms
So a lot of stuff to explore - and all free! Have fun!