Comments on: Your Favorite ChinesePod Lessons

By: SalaireDeLaPeur

SalaireDeLaPeur — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:39:31 +0000

As soon as I saw this question, I thought: “Mysterious Visitor” and “Stomach Trouble.”

I also like all the lessons about parents and children with the child sounding like a grown man, such as “Child-Parent Fight.” These are funny as well as accurate.

By: leviathan

leviathan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:13:09 +0000

“Mysterious Visitor”
Where the context and sounds help put the jigsaw together.

Also lessons with no fixed dialog like “useful Phrases” they are great way of conveying Info.

Dialect party mix is amazing also

By: chrka

chrka — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:30:58 +0000

Richard,
that would be “Your turn to pay!” at http://chinesepod.com/learnchi.....urn-to-pay . Turns out that the dictionary is very useful to find lessons where one remember a word or two (钱包 in this case)!

By: richard

richard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:48:33 +0000

My very first Chinese Pod lesson remains my very favorite to this day. I was laughing as I listened, and that actually helped me to remember it. (And I still remember every word, though it must be close to a year old.) Tragically I forget the name, but it was an Elementary and it was a dialogue between “two friends” about to go to lunch when one exclaims she forgot her wallet. And it’s all downhill from there. With friends like these….

By: Eric in Milwaukee

Eric in Milwaukee — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:18:20 +0000

First, thanks for the great work you do. If only you had been around while I was in China!

I enjoyed the lessons that told stories and jokes: Two monks on a mountain (elem), The Man and the Dog, the riddle about sheep, the tortoise and the hare (Sorry, don’t know official names). As a teacher of Chinese, dialogues have grown stale for me, so those lessons really stood out. I’ve told the sheep riddle many, many times and some of my students are telling this really long story about monks…

As for listening enjoyment, I agree with goulnik, the lessons with interviews were very interesting. It was nice to have spontaneous conversation and lots of voices to hear.

Having said that, I don’t mean at all that I would want chinesepod to change its basic format. Jenny, Jon and the others are fantastic and do a great job of writing and introducing lessons that are pertinent and interesting.

Keep up the great work!

By: goulnik (郭力毅)

goulnik (郭力毅) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:55:21 +0000

我一般无所谓，but the 2 lessons that I really liked for their very different, fast and lively pace are the interviews, New Year’s 春节采访（E0429) and Experiencing Agricultural Life (D0561）both interviews and a little longer than usual.

By: leviathan

leviathan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:22:27 +0000

They are all Fantastic, but….

Intermediate - Going to the Gym
Lots of vocab！不是A就是B (Great explanation as always john)

Elementary - Mysterious Visitor
Lot of special effects. Great explanation of Chinese speakers opening the light or opening their television
啊这里不是三号楼吗

By: 敦禮

敦禮 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:59:48 +0000

argh, where are the other 7? All that code wasted!

By: 敦禮

敦禮 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:54:56 +0000

Here are some of the lessons I have enjoyed. I wouldn’t say they are my favorite because I like a lot of the lessons but these are lessons that came to my mind rather quickly after reading Ken’s request.
Chinese Onomatopoeia

Black Market Gun Deal
Phobias

By: 敦禮

敦禮 — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:19:59 +0000

Chinese Onomatopoeia