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Posted on: Math Class Woes
July 4, 2014 at 5:08 AM

哦， I'm still here, although very much in lurker mode these days...

Perhaps after a series on cricket we could get a follow up series on the art of sledging?

切。。。

Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 27, 2014 at 2:04 PM

Well, if you really want to feel inadequate, John, circa 2003, regards knowing 10,000 Chinese words as "a basic vocabulary; it is an accomplishment, but it’s nothing to be exceedingly proud about".

http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2003/06/04/studying-chinese-in-hangzhou

Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 27, 2014 at 2:56 AM

Re: Americanis/z/ation

I recently came across this guy (Eddie Izzard) after watching 'the Riches (2007)'...

Here's a Youtube clip thats quite funny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5H7cgcpkg

Posted on: Math Class Woes
June 27, 2014 at 2:39 AM

I also vote for a lesson on cricket!

Suggestion: I think it would be a good lesson to kick off the impending video lessons that are (apparently) in the pipeline.

Jenny would make a good opening bat, David could probably be the sheik of tweak...and despite the recent departures, there's probably still enough people in the office to just make a team.

I wonder what they call a chinaman in China? Aussies?

Don't tell there's not any useful vocab in a cricket lesson - I propose Cpod makes an entire series out of it!

(I'm more or less on strike until this happens)

Posted on: Dart Match
December 9, 2013 at 2:04 AM

Darts ahead of cricket? C'mon...

Posted on: Listen Up, Foreigners!
November 9, 2013 at 6:43 AM

我是外国人。。。

Posted on: Dream Girls
October 23, 2013 at 9:13 PM

...the head?

Posted on: A Day in the Life of a Student
October 21, 2013 at 2:17 AM

哦，谢了，Connie!

Posted on: A Day in the Life of a Student
October 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM

This lesson covers pretty much all the vocab and sentence structures we covered in my first year Chinese class at college this year.

On a side note, what is the best/most natural way to say 'she often speaks Chinese with our teacher'. Can I say:

她常常讲汉语与我们的老师

and/or:

她常常跟老师说汉语

?

I've been 'studying' Chinese for a number of years now, but simple things like this can still trip me up...

Posted on: Heat Stroke
October 13, 2013 at 7:06 AM

Some very useful sentence structures in here...