This is my Messege Board, please tell me anything you would like to tell me about Slow Chinese. Only with your critics and suggestions can I make my work better.
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Bob @ May 23, 2010 8:19 am
I think these podcasts are extremely useful. Which is why I am getting a little frustrated at how infrequently the most recent ones have been coming out – 6 in the last 14 weeks. Is there any chance you will be able to get back to a weekly podcast?
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Hi Bob,
I must say sorry for making you wait. I’ve been a little bit busy recently. I will graduate in a month!
So in the come months after June I’ll update regularly. But a weekly pocast is still hard for me. I can work, say, 3-4 post per month.
Hope you understand. Many thanks for loving Slow Chinese!
Xinyu
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Xinyu ni hao
Thank you for your great site. It is amazingly helpful for my vocabulary and listening skills all in one especially as the sections are now on my mp3 player. And I am learning so much about China in the process. New vocab has never been this painless or interesting.
Warm regards
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Hi Xinyu,
you are awesome! your podcast blog is awesome too!
Although I’m on the beginning of my way of studying chinese, I listen your podcasts every time I can.By the way, I have a similar blog, but for spanish speaking people who study russian. Cause I’m russian and now live in Madrid. I was thinking about the podcasts for my blog and will do it as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for have been created this awesome blog!
Greetings,
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Hi Dasha,
good for you! It will be a new exciting and challenging start for you.
Have fun with your Slow Russian! Share your thoughts with me.
Xinyu
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Xinyu,
你好，你的网站做的真好，如果从一个想学习汉语的外国人的角度来说，使用很方便。不过我是一个想学习好英语的人，像你一样我也喜欢学习语言，目前想练习好口语，但是申请了雅虎的YM却找不到native speaker来做练习，所以想在你的网站文章后面留言写上我的雅虎YM的ID,通过这样的方式找到想学习汉语的人士，我们互相帮助，互相学习。同时也给你提出一个建议，能否建立一种联系的方式，让想练习英语口语和想练习汉语口语的人通过你的网站互相认识，一起学习呢。
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Eva你好，
你找到你的语言伙伴了么？学习语言最好的方式的确就是和母语者交流。如果我的网站能帮助你，我也很高兴。
我自己也有一个想法，给我的慢速中配备一个小论坛，让读者在里面分享交流。
过一段时间我会做的。你可以常来看，或者你订阅了我的Newsletter，你也会收到通知的。
祝你好运！
昕煜
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昕煜，
你的博客真棒！才发现了，已经听了好几个podcast。
我现在不在中国，有时候真想中文，这样我太高兴我找到你的博客。
我对中国地下摇滚乐或地下艺术很感兴趣。刚听你的podcast关于你最喜欢的乐队，真不错。
如果你还能发这个题目的信息，那太好了。
我的评价就是个很牛B的博客！-
Anna你好，
谢谢你喜欢我的Podcast。如果你想念中国了，就来我的网站吧。
我也对中国的现代音乐和艺术非常感兴趣，最近我把很多时间都花在参观展览和听音乐会上了。
我还会继续介绍相关的内容的。
昕煜
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Val
Oh, man! Your stuff rocks!
Thank you so much for doing this great job. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while and just found your website last week. I’ll be certainly spending some time here…
Thanks again!
Greetings from Shenzhen.Val
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Michele
Hello.
first of all congratulations for your fantastic podcasts and excellent transcripts! that is a really useful website that I will recommend to all my friends studying chinese!If I may, only one one comment: at the end of each podcast there are about 20seconds with your introduction to your website, leave comments etc…that is useful to know. However, as you know, we listen to your podcast several times each (so we can learn better) and sometimes, listening to those 20seconds so many times, may be distracting from the learning because a) we already heard it before and b) is in English.
So, if possible, you could take this recording out and put the information on the transcripts, so that people know anyway, but don’t have to listen to it over and over again.
what do you think?Other than that, I think it is one of the best websire. Keep up the good work!
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Eva
Hello Michele,
I am an asistant electrical engineer in Xian City, Shannxi Province。I can speake standard chinese with you and your friends who want to study chinese,and help you with your Chinese.Meanwhile,I want to improve my oral English.So,could we help each other study well? please contact me if you received this message.
My email and Yahoo YM ID is: huibei0116@yahoo.comEva
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Hi Michele,
thanks for your advice, I can consider it. Instead of totally remove it, I think I want to record a shorter version of my introduction, and maybe is it better to use Chinese?
Yours,
Xinyu
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孔马修
就是我想讲谢谢你昕煜。
我每个月总是下载你的节目。你录音的内容都比我教材的趣多了特别是给的流行歌曲。
孔马修
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Jonathan
Aloha Xinyu,
I have been using your website for some time now, and just wanted to drop in and say thank you for the fantastic resource you have created! Your articles are interesting to read and even though I must learn lots of new vocabulary, they are not so difficult that I feel like giving up. It is clear that you have put a lot of time and effort into creating this professional resource! Thank you very much!
Jonathan.
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Kees
Hello Xinyu,
First thank for youre fine education work, i want to learn a lot from you, i just want to know at youre site lesson 20 is the pdf file not oke? i only see 21?
Thanks a lot.
Kees.
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Hi Kees,
thanks for reminding me of that problem, I made a mistake in editing that URL, now I’ve fixed it.
For a PDF file, there are at least 3 ways to get its URL:-
1, the book icon at the beginning of each post
2, the E-Book link at the bottom of each post
3, on Archives page, there’re links of all available files on my siteAnyway, I muss thank you for telling me that!
Yours,
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Hello Xinyu
Thanks for youre replay, I found the pdf and go on with the study, thamks a lot for learning me Chinese!!!
Kees.
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Thank you so much ! your podcast is great and helps me a lot with my studies. 非常感谢你对我们中文爱好者准备的这个播客！！
Can I ask you for something which would develop your subject on education in China? i would be more interested in higher education in China, and ur opinion about it maybe? i consider to take a course in your country so 请谈谈你对中国大学教育的看法。I would be very very grateful!!!
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小朱你好，
中国的高等教育这个话题很好，我也很关注这方面的问题，我以后一定会做一篇相关的博客。
祝你好运！
昕煜
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你好，
我在北京留学。谢谢你的slow chinese。真的很有用，我希望课文书的问题那么有意思，生词也那么有用。今后我经常会你的pod。
Greetings from 五道口
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Richard Boyechko
Hi Xinyu,
I discovered your podcast and website last week through chinese-forums.com and have been avidly listening ever since then. Thank you so much! This is definitely something I’ve been looking for — interesting topics spoken about in clear, slow Chinese. Having transcripts for each episode is tremendously helpful as well.
谢谢你！
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Hi Xinyu,
This is just great! Found your site only today and it is exactly what I was looking for. I’m SO glad I found you. Now, no excuse for my Chinese not improving. Ha ha. Last month, I had to give a technical presentation to a large group of Chinese executives in Dongguan and I found out how bad my Chinese really is… sigh. And my boss who was with me speaks perfect Mandarin!
I resolved to improve my Chinese so when I got back I started a blog – “Lost in Chinese / Found in Translation” to narrate my learning experience and to share with others in the same boat. Take a look if you can and I shall be grateful for any feedback. In my last post I wrote人在江湖, 身不由己 but it is how we response to it that determines who we are, right?
Once again, a big “thank you” and keep up the good work!
Jimmy Chang
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菲利普
你好！先生
你的网站是非常非常好！ 很有意思！
别的网站叫slowchinese.com是不好意思， 他们的棵错了。
希望人不去别的网站， 因为它的名字将近一样。我也说加油！
菲利普（澳大利亚的墨尔本人）
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菲利普你好，
谢谢你的提醒，我知道这个slowchinese.com网站，因为我最早就想买slowchinese.com这个地址。
他的网站好像跟我的不一样，而且没有更新。有机会我会问问那个作者。
谢谢！加油！
昕煜
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你好兄弟。。。 我有一个想法要给你说。我想你勘定会写一个非常有意思的blog 关于饭店的菜单。 很多饭店有他们自己变得菜名。我看菜单点菜还是很大问题对我来说。
I bet my Chinese above is not very clear, so let me write a bit more in English; I could really use your help learning characters for different foods and for some of the often interesting names for dishes found on menus in Chinese restaurants. I bet with your writing and storytelling skills you could come up with more than one fun and informative podcast on this topic.
Cheers,
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Oh yes, great idea, I appreciate it!
Although for me, to fully understand a menu in a chinese restaurant is never possible, because as you said, they come up with their own names for different dishes, but I think I’ll make a podcast to explain commenly seen names and maybe generally some tipps for deciding what to choose.
Best,
Xinyu
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翁哥：
你的博客实在是太有用。可能如果做个水平区分那这就会使你的博客升级到新的一个阶段。加油！
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叫你老弗？
谢谢你的主意，我想了想，应该没有问题！
我会在每篇文章的标题下面放一个显示文章难度的标志，比如五角星。
昕煜
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I think your news letter is wonderful. Please keep up the great effort.
I strongly believe that every one should give what they have for the benefit of all.
Even me
you are a hero
From Robertoh…one thing
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hi Robert,
thanks very much for your support! I’m doing Slow Chinese for free because I think it worth the effort, people get to know Chinese better and I myself learn a lot from working on it, the feeling of giving makes me happy. Sorry about the newsletter thing, I noticed your comment soon after I sent out the recent Newsletter, I’ll change the font bigger next time.
Best,
Xinyu
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你好Xinyu: 我只要说我觉得你的 podcasts 非常好。 你的写法太有意思。你的声音很好听。你的故事太逗了。你念得速度是just right.
I’ve listened and studied four of your podcast so far and they’re very professional. And you’re doing this all on your own?My big question is why is your work so much better than other sites? I’m thinking specifically of one Chinese learning site that is an institution named after 孔子, which is impossibly bad!
如果你有时间的话请看我的网站。我很感性出你的看法和意见
Thanks again.
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老毕你好，
谢谢你对我的评价！对，一切都是我自己做的，写文章、录音、搭建网站……我觉得这个比较有趣，而且有意义，所以我相信我能做好并且继续下去。
我看了你的网站，很棒！我的意思是，你做的事情很有意义。我也在中国各地发现了这个问题，比如：公园的牌子上写着“出口Export”；餐厅菜单上的英语让人看不懂。这种情况让人很无奈，因为有些人做事情不负责任，或许他们认为这个不重要。我希望你的努力能够帮中国人明白这个问题的严重性：世界已经把中国当成自己的一部分，而有些中国人却仍然以为中国是一个世界。
如果我能给你提供帮助的话，请告诉我。昕煜
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I just want to say thank for for making such a great site. It is helping to improve my Chinese a lot.
Keep up the good work.
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你好Xinyu: 谢谢你的鼓励和夸张。在你的领导下我的中文勘定会有进步。
When I looked a second time, I couldn’t find the link on your site for Mandarin Spot which is really helpful in providing pinyin annotations for each character in your stories.
I thought your other listeners might find it useful. It’s at this link: http://mandarinspot.com/annotate . Along with pinyin, this automated site can also give you a translated list of the characters in Xinyu’s stories.
Cheers,
老毕-
老毕你好，
I guess the link you mentioned was randomly provided by GoogleAdsense at the bottom of the sidebar, so I’ve added it into Link Page in Library. Thanks for your recommendation!
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Xinyu哥们，你的网站是太好，谢谢你的努力。非常感谢！
我也在北京，学了中文好多年可是我汉字还不好，会达几个字还不能写认识的字少。我想你的网站会给我带来很大的帮据。
See… it took me such a long time to write those few words above and I know many are wrong. I found the link you provided to Mandarin Spot, another great free resource,was also incredibly helpful converting the characters into to pinyin. Slow-Chinese and Mandarin Spot what great learning tools.
Xinyu 我怎么帮你的忙？
Cheers,
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老毕你好，
你的努力让我很感动，希望你取得更大的进步。
不需要你帮我什么忙，如果我的博客对你有用，你愿意听，也从中学到东西，这就是对我最大的鼓励和帮助。
祝你虎年快乐！昕煜
2010年3月6日
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我叫文龙是俄国人。你的podcast真挺好的也可以说很好听的，我真的能享受 谢谢！虎年吉祥！
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Hello Xinyu
Thank you very much for making this site, it looks great. I will be using it to try to get my poor Chinese back into shape.
One question -why is the site in traditional characters if you are based in Beijing? Why not write in simplified characters?
All the best
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Hi sendaiben,
happy Chinese New Year!
the problem you described that only traditional Chinese characters are shown appears to be the problem of your browser’s setting or your OS’ language figuration, I type in simplified Chinese and nobody else seem to have the same problem as you do. Change the language coding of your browser to Unicode may solve this problem.
Have a nice day!Xinyu
March,6 2010
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Ty Hism
You podcast is great! Keep up with your great work and thank you for promoting our language and culture to the world.
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Hi Xinyu
I was always amused by Chinese language from my childhood. And finally I got some opportunity to learn it. I think you doing very nice work. Thanks.
Can you please make lessons for newcomers like me also. For me even first lesson too complex
.My dream is interactive reality to learn any language.
Imagine you travel through country(in company of local attractive girl f.e.) and surrounded people who has only one task – to help you learn language. So this virtual people start talking to you with sign language pronouncing very clearly words and showing Chinese letters at the same time. You walking in virtual city and listen to people. They speak adapted language so u can pick up few more words, as more you spent in this reality as complicated their speech. Total immersion in virtual China as advanced level.Why people making 1000 brainless shooters instead of one nice useful project?
Just my dream. But it can be partly implemented with video lessons.
Btw I’m software developer. If you need any help let me know.Thanks alot.
SJ
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Hi SJ,
apology for my late reply. You are very intelligent and your idea sounds very appealing to me, it’s really a revolutionary new concept of learning a foreign language. I’ll be very excited to witness or even be a part of your wonderful project, if you realize it someday in the near future.
I am, for the present time, only a college student, and have a great amount of school works at hand, I’m afraid now I can’t make such a podcast for beginners. And I believe there are a number of such materials on the Internet. In fact, as many of Slow Chinese listeners, like you, expect me to do a such beginner podcast, it is not impossible for me to do it, only I need to find time and prepare both the lessens and myself.
By the way, are you familiar with php + MySQL and wordpress? I want you to help add a small function to Slow Chinese, I will pay for your work!Yours, Xinyu
March,6 2010
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非常感谢你对我们中文爱好者准备的这个播客，就太棒了。而且完全适合我现汉语在的水平，因为我几乎所有你使用的词汇都知道，我的主要的问题就是电视电影的”正常说话的速度太大。
新年快乐，虎年大吉！
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nice job man!
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Rita Kong
Respect to you, matey! What a wonderful site you’ve created. I’m learning so much and it’s all FREE … Keep up the good work and I shall be checking in every day.
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Hi Rita,
thanks very much. Actually you don’t need to check in here everyday, simply subscribe my Newsletter or subscribe my podcast in itunes store, and you’ll be informed of the latest update, either a new episode or newly added material in library. Have a good day!
Xinyu
March,6 2010
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Thank you for your fantastic podcast. “Slow Chinese” is becoming more and more my primary source of texts with audio, because the texts are interesting and I am able to increase my vocab knowledge a lot.
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thank you!
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Doug
Thank you so much for such a great resource!!! This is fantastic!
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Indga
Xinyu Weng, you’re a lifesaver. Thanks, man!
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Hi XinYu,
Ditto from me on all the good comments. I have been learning Chinese for about 18 months now, and I find your texts great for practicing dictation, as you speak very clearly.While studying for the Intermediate HSK I have had a lot of difficulty with the listening comprehension part, mainly because they use a lot of expressions that one cannot find in the type of text material you are using. Any suggestions on how I may improve this skill of conversational Chinese? Are there any novels, short stories, etc, that may help?
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Matt
Great site! 太有用了!! 谢谢. 辛苦你了。
I create pinyin (http://www.annotator.dragonresearch.org/) and English versions (using Google Translate) and add to my iPod lyrics. It helps a lot. It would be great if you could make this a standard feature.
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Hi thanks,
I hope I can add the function of adding pinyin to the text. I’m trying~
Xinyu
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Carley
I just found your website through Chinese Pod. You are a Chinese learner’s dream come true! You speak so clearly, and at a reasonable speed. Thank you for putting up this site.
Is it possible to download the pdf files in just plain text? I would like to manipulate the text, making it larger for easy reading, changing the font, and cutting it up for vocabulary and grammar flashcards.
你说得很清楚！谢谢！
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Hi, do you mean the font in PDF too small to read? If you want to use the article in plain text, please just copy and paste from the webpage. To enlarge the font in your browser you can hold Ctrl and scroll up. I’ve working on adding Pinyin recently.
Thanks for your support!
Yours,
Xinyu-
Carley
Yes, Xinyu, I saw that your text was copy/paste-able right after I posted. I do have to make that font quite large for my poor eyes. I print out your text with plenty of space in between the lines to write in pinyin marks for characters that are new to me.
Again, Thank you for providing this material to study Chinese!
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你的播客真的很棒！加油！
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Hi!
Thanks for your great website, I find it really useful.
I’ve been having problems with downloading the content lately though on iTunes. It says that I need to check the link.. while I’ve been downloading without any problems in the past. You have any idea what the problem could be?
Thanks!
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Hi,
please tell me the name of the audio file, so that I can check the problem.
Or you just can’t download any of them now?Yours,
Xinyu-
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Hi,
Thanks for the fast reply.
I first thought that I just couldn’t download nr. 32, but I just found out I can’t download any of the files. I tried it on itunes on another PC and when trying to download it says that the url isn’t correct and that I should check if it’s the correct url or not. I copied the url it’s using: http://www.slow-chinese.com/?feed=podcast is that the correct one? I’ve tried it both through the site and through iStore self.Best regards,
TPS. I can download other podcasts without problems
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Hi,
it’s true, you were right, there was something wrong with my feed, which caused dead link to podcast-downloading in iTunes. Thank you veeeeeeery much for telling me the problem! I’ve checked it carefully, validated the feed again and it’s gonna work now! Problem solved! Enjoy yourself here!
Yours,
Xinyu-
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No thanks man
Was glad to let you know and I am really happy that I can finally download new eps again! Will definitely enjoy them.
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Great Website!! Thank you so much. In addition to Hanzi, I translate your texts into Pinyin and English and include them as lyrics in my iTunes. If you could do this, it would make the site even more user-friendly.
Thanks again and 辛苦你啦！
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Hi,
glad you love my work!
I’m still working on the function you said, adding Pinyin and translation to the text. But I will only add them to the website if I find the right plugin. The mp3 has already chinese transcript as lyrics, and adding more content to the mp3 will make it slow to load and not comfortable to read.
Wish you make more progress!
Yours,
Xinyu
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Christian
Fantastic work, what a fantastic blog. I do not only love the insights of China I get out of your texts, but it really helps me build my vocabulary. Thank you so much!!!
Have great x-mas!
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Carl
Keep up the fantastic work! What a great podcast. Simple, but effective for helping build listening skills.
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亲爱的昕煜， your website 慢速中文 is great! Thank you very much for your wonderful work! Please keep going! Greetings from Lugano, Switzerland
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This is a very useful resource… a bit beyond me at present, tho it is great for increasing vocab, also realising how native chinese speakers pronounce a string of words. Thankyou! …. and its interesting….
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chopsticks
Hi, congratulation for your website! It’s really useful! Great job!!!
Do you know this one? It’s a point of reference!!! http://www.zhongwen.com/
Maybe it will be good for your libraryThank you!
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Hi, it’s so nice of you to recommend me another website with plenty of chinese-learning resources. Actually there’re so many good websites that I haven’t discovered and dont’ have enough time to visit, and I myself can learn a lot about China and Chinese through those Websites. Thanks!
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Hi, xinyu, thanks very mucho for your effort, and regards from Spain. I was wondering if you can introduce us something about the enviromental protection in China, thanks once again. I like very much your podcast in itune!!!!
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It’s a good idea, since one of the biggest issue China faces today is the environmental problem. I’ll think about it! Thanks!
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我真的很喜欢这个网站。 我觉得我的听力和理解的最大挑战。Your website is outstanding for developing listening and understand skills.
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最大的挑战？呵呵，这说明我写的东西有点难是吧。我觉得很重要的是，我完全按照中国人的表达方式来写文章。谢谢你喜欢慢速中文，希望你进步！
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Congratulations on the website design and nice features. It will be helpful to me while trying to learn.
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Thanks Dan, please come here frequently and any of your suggestion is welcome!
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Hey, came across your website through sinosplice.com. I’m very impressed that you’ve been doing this all by yourself and I like the entries you wrote as well as the elegant design!
In face I just started teaching Chinese to Americans recently, will definitely recommend this to my students and colleagues! ^-^
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Thanks for loving Slow Chinese, I’m glad that it’s helpful for your job, please keep supporting me! I will keep coming up with new cool posts.
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Hi,
你的網站和成立網站的初衷都很棒.
繼續保持下去. 加油!加油!SN
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谢谢你的支持，我会做的更好。
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