User Comments - bababardwan
bababardwan
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 10, 2011 at 4:48 AMI love these lessons where it's not only about the language, but has some practical advice on how to go about specific matters in China today. Well done.
Posted on: Annoying Ringtone
February 9, 2011 at 9:37 PM..I was playing along mate ;)
Posted on: Annoying Ringtone
February 9, 2011 at 12:46 PM呵呵，那，我敢问你？好的。。第一个呢？ 【hehe, so, dare I ask?..what's the first then?]
Posted on: Tea Refill
February 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM“'Nǐ piàn wǒ!'” 。。。。然后什么发生呢？
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 9, 2011 at 10:39 AM“他们会派人去机场陪你办各种手续”。。手续。。。not to be confused with 手术...they'll send someone to the airport to do all sorts of operations on your pet with you [绝育，之类的】
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 9, 2011 at 10:20 AMJust noticed something interesting in the dialogue tab when I happened to keep rolling over the simple stuff out of [bad] habit:
带回家
is given in the rollover as:
带回 ...to bring
and 家..to go home
...firstly I would have put the 回 with the 家 to render those definitions, but more importantly it's about how I would say [and expect to hear] such a lexical chunk. Certainly 回家 is commonly heard. Not sure whether I've specifically heard 带回 before but it's not a particularly surprising combo and my rollover has it as "to bring back". But in that combination, I would have said it as 带 and 回家 [with that infintessimally small pause between them...pause is probably not the right word..not sure what is?]. I know prosody can be a lot of other things ...rhythm, stress, intonation...so not sure if this also would fall under a prosody problem. I guess I feel reasonably confident it could be said as 带 and 回家. I guess the question is can it also be said as 带回 and 家?
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 9, 2011 at 9:23 AMsimongrant,
I don't have time lately to do any transcripts, but if you were to highlight the times in the podcast where you had trouble, I would be happy to have a listen and see if I can help/we can nut it out together.
Posted on: Annoying Ringtone
February 9, 2011 at 5:10 AMah, really? I didn't know I had an anki upload. What anki upload? Would you mind sending me a PM with a link so I can see what it is ?....don't want to miss out on anything myself, hehe.
Posted on: Tea Refill
February 9, 2011 at 4:39 AMNow this is where we need to get our local friendly 警察 【policeperson] on board, on BST as suggested by RJ here:
http://chinesepod.com/lessons/inside-the-baozi-business#comment-205008
..to advise on where one stands and what to do if you find yourself [well hopefully we Poddies are all well informed enough now, but if a mate gives you a tinkle explaining such a pickle] in such a predicament as the tea scam.
Posted on: Chinese Baijiu and the Best of the Worst
February 10, 2011 at 12:25 PMHey, this is really strange. Just above the lesson avatar there is now this ad for qzone.qq.com. It's not happening on another other CPod pages, or any other sites, but if I open a a second tab with this page on it, it's there again. And I swear I haven't touched a drop of this baijiu [or anything else, hehe]. Is anyone else seeing this?