Comments on: April Chinese Links

By: ichbinjenny

ichbinjenny — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:12:35 +0000

i question patrick's list when 魚 appears at 971, 爹 is at 965 whereas 爸 is at 991, 汽 at 1117, and the list goes on.

anyone know where patrick got his stats from?

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:01:33 +0000

I have been searching the web for a list of the most commonly used “words;” not characters but have not been able to find such a thing. Does anyone here have any information to share?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:59:13 +0000

Thanx for the links. I am currently teaching English in Shanghai. It’s really great to learn Mandarin here.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:44:01 +0000

Micah, that was the point and why I said what I said as it’s pretty obvious that comments made by him regarding this profit-center (hehe) or not very objective, which is understandable. Anyhow, this is my last message regarding this profit center. Whatever, goodluck to you all.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:16:37 +0000

Thanks, Micah.

You really understand.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:38:44 +0000

Yeah, John doesn't do it for the profit. He does it for the love!

The LOVE!

By: DJW

DJW — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:28:35 +0000

Please please please. Company, not “profit centre”. Are we all expected to speak this Newspeak now? John is working for a company.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:20:55 +0000

Dear John,

I do not know you personally, nor am I involved in any way in the "Teaching Chinese" business -- I'm actually in Hi-Tech and Chinese is just a hobby for me.

I've visited your site a few times and found it greatly interesting; my 0.02 cents advice to you, which of course you didnt ask for, is: as you are now financially invovled with a profit center, in order to maintain your credibility perhaps it would be best to avoid mentioning above profit center by yourself.

Right now it might look fantastic and all but it's still a startup, who knows what's going to be a year from now.

I might be totally wrong but I do mean this in a good way.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:35:08 +0000

It creates value for them. The comparisons should be based on that point only.

Uh.. that was the only basis I used for comparision- how much value it has for students.

Serge may mean well, but get a grip, his shows are deathly boring. They don’t create value.

Did you see me saying anything good about Serge's service?

Chill, and take a little time to think before you post - that’s what I say.

And I'll say it right back at you. If you're going to give me advice about what I posted, you should at least read what I posted.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:00:22 +0000

Mark, I think you don’t understand how blogging works. You are totally free to write, criticize, do whatever. But you cannot expect to go unchallenged if you make rash or careless statements/judgements – the one you give above is a good example. In the case of chinesepod, there are, a whole lot of people who like it and get a lot from it. It creates value for them. The comparisons should be based on that point only. Serge may mean well, but get a grip, his shows are deathly boring. They don’t create value. As far as I know the chinespod team are the undedogs – if you want comparisons why not compare them with the big publishing houses, the audio-book companies, the corpoprations they are challenging. I don’t know how many staff they have but it seems to be not that mich – 15 – 20 people? Chill, and take a little time to think before you post – that’s what I say.