User Comments - xiao_liang

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xiao_liang

Posted on: Fun at the Beach
June 23, 2010 at 8:54 AM

Wow, how beautiful. I'm not surprised there was no-one swimming though, with big waves and rocks around, you probably have quite dangerous riptides.

I'd love to know what the weird carts were though.

Posted on: Football Mania
June 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM

They did the "Thread of the month" offer a couple of times. But I think that's stopped now?

Posted on: Mobile Repairmen and AZERDocMom
June 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM

Is azerdocmom still around? I wonder how Josh's Chinese is getting on as he approaches the terrible teens :-) 

Posted on: Which tone was that again?
June 22, 2010 at 7:02 AM

First lesson I had to fast-forward through the dialogue on the second time round! I couldn't take any more hua xue! ;-)

Posted on: Changing a Plane Ticket
June 21, 2010 at 8:51 AM

很勇敢！

Posted on: Changing a Plane Ticket
June 21, 2010 at 8:25 AM

Could it be a regional dialect issue?

Posted on: Football Mania
June 20, 2010 at 7:42 PM

Yea, I've seen repeated vocabulary. It's actually really great for people like me, who have trouble memorising. I won't get it set in the first time I hear it, but it's repeated the second time and I go "aha!" and remember it that time, or maybe the next time. Repeating common language has to be a good thing for increasing our conversational fluency, right?

Posted on: Football Mania
June 20, 2010 at 10:11 AM

I'm not sure that listing 32 countries in a single lesson really matches the chinesepod model? It kinda gets away from "learning in context" and sidles idly into long lists of vocab, which terrifies me :-p

Doesn't mean there's not a place for it in say, the glossary.

Posted on: Getting into the habit with 习惯 (xíguàn)
June 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM

Hooray for namechecking! :-)

Posted on: A Tour of Xi'an
June 17, 2010 at 3:06 PM

If I recall correctly, I think it means an open space where people can meet.