Comments on: Interview me! http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/ Mandarin movies, music and madness. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:12:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Colleen http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-676 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:37:04 +0000 http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-676 So Frank, If you could go for hotpot with any person living or dead, who would it be? So Frank, If you could go for hotpot with any person living or dead, who would it be?

]]> by: Bill http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-658 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:23:41 +0000 http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-658 Hey Frank, I’ve got a few questions for you. I’m definitely a newbie learner (since August) and even a more recent poster. You may have answered this in one of your past entries, but I’ll ask anyway. You recently posted that you graduated out of the newbie lessons on to the elementary. How long did that take? And where do you feel you were as a Mandarin learner before coming to C-Pod. I mean had you had any schooling prior to learning with C-Pod or was it totally new. Then, how did you decide that you had graduated? Did Ken and Jenny send you a certificate of completion, with a bunch of gold stars, (because that would be really cool), or was it something that you kind of decided on your own. I’m trying to find a way to gage my own progress and pick up some tips as well. Because I don’t have a lot of time, just like everyone else, I usually listen to the lessons on my very short commute to and from work. I listen to two lessons at a time and just repeat them over for four or five days. My thinking is to expose my self to as much hearing of the language as possible. When my daughters were very young it was easy to tell they understood what we were saying by their reactions to our conversations, even though they couldn’t speak themselves. So I’ve adopted the same methodology. Because it worked for them I’m sure it will work for me as well. I do supplement this with the dialogue sheets. I’ll sit down once maybe twice a week with the dialogue sheet and make notes as I listen along. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Hey Frank, I’ve got a few questions for you. I’m definitely a newbie learner (since August) and even a more recent poster. You may have answered this in one of your past entries, but I’ll ask anyway. You recently posted that you graduated out of the newbie lessons on to the elementary. How long did that take? And where do you feel you were as a Mandarin learner before coming to C-Pod. I mean had you had any schooling prior to learning with C-Pod or was it totally new.

Then, how did you decide that you had graduated? Did Ken and Jenny send you a certificate of completion, with a bunch of gold stars, (because that would be really cool), or was it something that you kind of decided on your own.

I’m trying to find a way to gage my own progress and pick up some tips as well. Because I don’t have a lot of time, just like everyone else, I usually listen to the lessons on my very short commute to and from work. I listen to two lessons at a time and just repeat them over for four or five days. My thinking is to expose my self to as much hearing of the language as possible. When my daughters were very young it was easy to tell they understood what we were saying by their reactions to our conversations, even though they couldn’t speak themselves. So I’ve adopted the same methodology. Because it worked for them I’m sure it will work for me as well.

I do supplement this with the dialogue sheets. I’ll sit down once maybe twice a week with the dialogue sheet and make notes as I listen along. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

]]> by: Sean Bayless http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-657 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:03:47 +0000 http://blogs.chinesepod.com/newbie/2007/02/21/interview-me/#comment-657 Not sure if you meant to post questions on here or via email, so here goes: Important interview question #1: As an author, whose writings do you enjoy reading and who do you count as an influence? Important interview question #2: Peanut butter: chunky or smooth? Not sure if you meant to post questions on here or via email, so here goes:

Important interview question #1: As an author, whose writings do you enjoy reading and who do you count as an influence?

Important interview question #2: Peanut butter: chunky or smooth?

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