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Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 4:40 PMTvan, You know how it is, you pay for the FUN! Most gourmet Coffee drinkers only like the flavor of Coffee once it's been mixed with flavored syrup and Milk. Your average Starbucks or Peet's Coffee drinkers would gag to death on a cup of strait black Coffee.
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 3:19 PMChangye,
"Skinny" - is a type of Latte or Cappuccino from Starbucks, it's non-fat and sugar free.
You don't have to say, "a non-fat, sugar-free Vanilla Latte", you can just say, "a Skinny Vanilla Latte".
"Half Caf" - Is a Latte or Cappuccino with half the Caffeine of a regular Coffee, one might order this to get some pick up from the Caffeine but without the jitters, especially if one is going to order a...
"Triple" - A gourmet coffee drink with 3 shots of Espresso.
Gee, maybe C-Pod should do a lesson dedicated to Coffee. Maybe we can mention "Peet's Coffee". Maybe this could be in the second installment of the World Traveller, Los Angeles series?
A production meeting at Peet's Coffee.
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 1:38 PMBababardwan,
Oh, I almost forgot, here is a site that an convert your Pinyin with numbers, to trendy Pinyin with tone marks. Now you can be part of the "it" crowd.
;)
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 6:51 AMAmber,
I can't believe you know Peet's coffee! I remember (back in the day) when there was only one Peet's Coffee on 2nd Street in Long Beach (south Los Angeles county), now Peet's Coffee is in all the trendy spots and you can buy bags of it at the grocery store. It's SO much better than Starbucks!
That part of Long Beach used to be home to the world's best Coffee and Bagels. There was an AWESOME bakery that had Bagel's that were absolutely out of this world! Cranberry Bagels with giant chunks of real Cranberry, Chocolate Vanilla swirl Chocolate Chip Bagels, Jalapeno Bagels with real Jalapeno's...mmmmm, 圈饼...
先去皮特的咖啡店买一杯卡普契诺再去布隆克斯圈饼买一个巧克力块圈饼，好吃得不得了！
一想起来就流口水了！
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 5:59 AMAmber / Cpod,
I have to say, when I saw the lesson into up there I was totally stoked! It's really an honor to be picked. I know that sounds like some phony awards show-esque rhetoric, but I truly mean it! Thanks again C-pod!
Thanks Adam/Urbandweller & Bababardwan for the kind words.
By the way, I had to laugh because it's really true how everyone out here is trying to break into the film industry. Back in the mid-90's I had the opportunity to 拍我自己的独立电影 and I went to Venice to meet up with one of the actors. His roommates were also both tying to become actors, the guy who lived upstairs was a writer on a sitcom, there were two guys who lived across from him who were in film school, someone else in the building was an electrician working 12 hours a day on a nighttime 1 hour drama who was trying to work his way up to be a D.P.
Yeah, you guys have got us Angelinos pegged!
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 5:45 AM安德森哥们儿，
在我文章里，"Cute", 这个词有，"漂亮" 的意思并不是，“可爱”的意思。
你放心，你可以请忍着帮你办翻译的事，呵呵！
Posted on: Hanoi
September 7, 2008 at 3:34 AMIt's kind of amazing to me that the capial city of the country of Vietnam has a population roughly equal to that of Kunming in Yunan. I guess it illustrated the stark contrast between the population of China and Vietnam.
Posted on: Good Morning!
September 6, 2008 at 6:19 PMZazen,
From the perspective of a fellow Westerner, I've been learning Chinese for 6 years now (I just celebrated my 6 year anniversary 3 weeks ago), and I've spent alot of time learning the Chinese characters. While you can learn to communicate just fine using Pinyin to study and listening to podcasts, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND learning characters right from the start. If you are serious about learning a language, it's an absolute MUST to be literate in it. Certainly the characters seem daunting in the beginning, but soon you'll be able to see the logic behind them, and how the forms kind of become self-explanitory in a way.
Learning characters, in the long run is a great help to learning vocabulary, sentence structure, grammer etc., because once you learn to read, suddenly the newspaper, the phone book, a brochure, a website, the back cover of a new DVD all become your teacher.
Trust me on this, one of the coolest things I can think of is being literate in Chinese!
Posted on: The Attitude Pattern (yǒu shénme... 有什么...)
September 6, 2008 at 5:50 AMPenn 和 Teller 的魔术有什么迷人的？
Penn 的表演有什么逗人的？
Teller 的哑剧有什么哑的？
突然一下提 Penn 和 Teller, 跟课程的主题有什么相关的？
WHOA DUDE! 好像我没有办法控制我自己并不得不提出更多这个句型的讽刺例子哦！
Penn 的 Dancing With The Stars 的跳舞表演有什么节奏的？
讽刺自己的幽默有什么好笑的？
Posted on: Los Angeles
September 9, 2008 at 7:27 PMMikeinlondon,
I wrote the lesson intro and my first draft (not the one I submitted, but the one at home on my hard drive) read, "drive East on the 10 to the Monterey Park", but the thing is, the San Gabriel Valley as a whole has so many Chinese, you can go to, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rowland Heights, City of Industry, Hacienda Heights, Walnut, Arcadia and many more cities in the San Gabriel Valley and find fantastic, very authentic Chinese food (yes, Hunan Fish Head, 剁椒水库大鱼头 which is the BEST!) and Chinese people everywhere.
Check out the demographics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Valley
In fact, the San Gabriel Valley is essentially one giant Chinatown! When even all the car dealerships giant lighted signs are in Chinese, and all the business' in Industrial Parks signs are in Chinese, you know the Chinese are the majority.
That's why I didn't put Monterey Park, because that wouldn't have been inclusive enough.