User Comments - zhenlijiang

Posted on: A Short Haircut

With this sentence, an "If you fail to show up again, I'm going to leave" situation is also a possibility, but my first guess would be an "If you don't get here soon, I'm going to leave" situation, because the former I think requires a bit of context to interpret it that way.

Posted on: Leeching off the Parents

It doesn't cover all the words you bring up, but there's this QW:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/even-if

Posted on: Job Shopping in Modern China

Is this another generational thing (the "on/by accident" discussion some months ago) Jen? "Us born in the 80s" to start a sentence sounds simply awful to me!

Posted on: Job Shopping in Modern China

I guess you mean anyone at CPod--but I'd say "Those of us born in the 80s ..." is better.

Posted on: A Promotion

Hi NYGiants, have a look here in the Transcripts with Tal group:

http://chinesepod.com/community/groups/view/transcripts-with-tal-173?page=1

Posted on: Slippery Ground

Ah guess I wasn't too clear. By "banter" I was actually referring to all of Jenny and John's exchanges including any explanation of grammar or vocab. I meant everything in the lesson besides the dialogues. I think the parts where Jenny is explaining some grammar point or vocab is easier to follow than friendly talk or jokes, because in those explanations she really sticks to limited patterns, which keep getting repeated in all the lessons.

Posted on: Trick or Treat!

heehee. As Suxiaoya resists Americanization, the British go to score points in the battle by attributing a most un-American word to John.

Posted on: Slippery Ground

I'm the opposite, I feel comfortable listening to the Intermediate banter (there are limited patterns and I think Jenny keeps to them) and probably understand it accurately 90+ percent of the time. But the lesson dialogue is still a challenge, still "too fast" for me, I have to work so hard to keep up. Hearing is hard enough, and then trying to shadow, to mouth the words at the same pace, makes me break a sweat. I will consider myself an Upper Inter student here when I no longer find the Intermediate dialogues "fast" and "scary". Just have to keep working at it. Hopefully soon.

I'm personally not against providing the explanations in English for Intermediate lessons, if that could help many students who feel they're being held back for that reason. I don't think I'd have much to lose if that happened, because I could just go to Upper Inter and above for Chinese banter. If enough of us feel this way perhaps CPod could consider some way to accommodate learners like yourself, or those who feel frustrated by the gap between Ele and Inter.

* I do like the way the Intermediate lessons are now though. For me, the dialogue content + banter is a good combo. *

Posted on: Cats Are Cool

（＾◇＾）I dig, even though I'm not especially cat-loving!

我也想跟小朋友一起学习哦 wǒ yě xiǎng gēn xiǎopéngyou yīqǐ xuéxí o

Posted on: 飞机怎么了？

So when was this lesson really published?