User Comments - bonscott

Posted on: Anyone for Cricket?

Thankyou for the response toianw. I'm not really expecting to have the opportunity to talk in Chinese about cricket, but some of that vocabulary looks like it might be useful in other contexts.

That phrase kind of loses the succinctness of 'maiden over'. Perhaps they should use a transliteration, like 买单.

Posted on: "在 时间" and "中"

Thanks. There's also one in the previous Qingwen lesson.

Posted on: "在 时间" and "中"

I'm just wondering about the Audio Review file for this lesson. Is it supposed to contain some vocabulary, or was it included in error?

Posted on: Anyone for Cricket?

I see that Hong Kong is the 15th ranked team in the world.

Not sure if they use Chinese words though, as I see that most of their players have sub-continental names, and the rest are Anglo.

China also has a national team, and in this case all of their player names are Chinese.

So I assume that they have Mandarin cricketing terms.

Perhaps Chinese Pod could contact the Chinese Cricket Association.

But let's say we wanted to invent a literal translation for 'bowl a maiden over'.

I suppose 'bowl' would be the same as 'pitch' in baseball. Does anyone know that word.

For 'maiden' we could substitute 'scoreless'.

'Over' is more difficult. We would need a word that means a 'set' of something.

Any suggestions?

Posted on: Anyone for Cricket?

With the cricket world cup being played next February, can I pre-book an Intermediate or Upper Intermediate lesson on the topic. Its just that an Elementary lesson by its nature says very little about the game. An Upper Intermediate lesson would allow you to speak a little about the host countries and perhaps describe some of the action. For example, how would you say 'bowl a maiden over'?  (remember that this is a cricket question!)