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jennyzhu
Posted on: One-on-One Basketball
May 29, 2008 at 3:57 PMI notice that in Shanghai basketball is quite popualr among girls not as a spectator sport, but actually playing. A few of my friends play regularly and with men. Maybe it has to do with the fact that PE class is hugely important in China. Games like basketball are compulsory for a student to learn to play.
A few basketball terms inspired by Bill's comment:
Dribble运球/yun4 qiu2
free throw/任意球/ren4 yi4 qiu2
jump shot/跳投/tiao4 tou2
pick and roll/档拆/dang3 chai1
slam dunk/灌蓝/guan4 lan2
time out/暂停/zan4 ting2
charging foul/带球撞人/dai4 qiu2 zhuang4 ren2
technical foul/技术犯规/ji4 shi4 fan4 gui
Posted on: One-on-One Basketball
May 29, 2008 at 3:30 AMI should keep my mom away from this lesson. She used to ground me for using mild foul language. But I love the transporting power of today and yesterday;s dilliards lesson. We are experimenting 'ation and scenario' dialogues that put you right in the action, and let the language and action speak for themselves. I think it makes learning a lot more cognitive. Hope Poddies like it too.
Posted on: Billiards
May 28, 2008 at 3:29 AMI think billiards is popular as a sport to participate in, while snooker is more popular as a spectator sport. This is helped by China's 20 year-old 'prodigy' Ding Junhui who stopped going to school at 12 to fully commit to a professional career.
Posted on: Gifts Chinese People Like and 'Chinatomy' Premiere!
May 27, 2008 at 3:40 PMChinatomy is fascinating. Marco is hilarious.
Posted on: SBTG: Confucius
May 27, 2008 at 3:26 PMI love the new site. Very intuitive and solid. I guess we'll all be busy exploring it for a while.
Posted on: Regional Accents Part II
May 26, 2008 at 4:29 AMacorrigan, The same goes for deep fried twisted dough. In most parts of China, it's 油条/you2 tiao2, but in ceratin parts of Fujian province, they call it 油炸鬼/you2 zha4 gui3/deep fried ghost. Errrr
Posted on: Regional Accents Part II
May 26, 2008 at 3:00 AMThe differences in accents and speech habits are even more prominent in this lesson than the first one.
Posted on: Taipei
May 22, 2008 at 6:43 AMThere are about quarter of a million Taiwan natives living in Shanghai and surrounding area. Their entreprenuerial spirit is amazing. A lot of them moved to the mainland to set up their own business and moved family here too.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Xinjiang
May 20, 2008 at 5:22 PMI coincidentally came across a story about 大盘鸡/big plate o chicken today. It says this is actually not a traditonal Xinjiang dish. It was improvised by a restaurant patron himself who asked the cook to throw chicken, noddles and veggie in one dish.
Posted on: Billiards
May 29, 2008 at 4:08 PMThis lesson came out on the day of the launch of the new site. We sincerely apologize for the bugs and other inconvenience caused. I know a verbal sorry doesn't mean much and Poddies have been phenomenally supportive and understanding with us. This is why we feel all the more compelled to fix problems and deeply sorry for the disruption. We do work with some restrains on resources in the company, which is a big reason for the glitches and other quality issues, albeit quality issues are quite unacceptable.
Please allow us to assure you that the execution will catch up with the vision that ChinesePod and Praxis have.