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light487
Posted on: Souvenirs and Strange Statues
May 9, 2008 at 10:21 AMThe limerick, for further study: If shopping's what you've got your heart in; Go to this outdoor mall (ow!) beg your pardon; Buy your watches of gold among buildings of old; With the tourists at old...............
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 9, 2008 at 9:39 AM@darylk I was going to reply to your #2 question earlier today but I got sidetracked. rich has explained the insertion of pics on another thread in excruciating details.. hehe.. :) It's over on this lesson: http://chinesepod.com/lessons/diet-coke/discussion
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 8, 2008 at 12:16 PMGawd.. look at my bad English now. This Chinese stuff is ruining my English grammar because I am immersed in learning it so much each day that I even, as I commented in another conversation, mistake some English words as being Chinese. ("Sugar" sounds like "shu ge")
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 8, 2008 at 11:15 AMOk I have listened to the lesson now. I think I understood 5% of the dialogue this time when I listened to it the first time through. However, during the translation I understand about 25% of the dialogue before it was translated by Ken. Is it simply because Jenny speak clearer/slower? Or is it that I simply used to her voice now?
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 8, 2008 at 9:01 AMHrmm yes.. I need to buy myself a set of chopsticks to practise with at home by the sound of it. I only use them when I am at a restaurant.. so I rarely use them and I always get a cramp in my hand after using them for 30 to 60mins.
Posted on: Iron Your Clothes
May 8, 2008 at 4:21 AM"Atom Boy"?? I thought it was "Astro Boy"?.. Unless they called it something different in China, perhaps?
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 8, 2008 at 4:14 AMI haven't listened to the lesson yet, as I am still at work and I can't download anything from here.. :( but I was just curious... @clay How do you eat fish with chopsticks? I can understand eating fish-cakes with chopsticks but not fish with bones... and was it the actual fish "head" that was served.. or just the exotic name of the dish?
Posted on: Too Picky
May 8, 2008 at 4:11 AMWho? This is one of my favourite lessons.. I listen to it at least 2 or 3 times a week.. It makes me laugh still to this day.
Posted on: Number Two
May 7, 2008 at 6:59 AMHehe.. I can imagine. I was listening to this lesson again today, I have it on my mp3 player, and the word used in the dialogue is a more polite version. I guess using this "rude" version might be ok between teenage boys or something for example.
Posted on: Souvenirs and Strange Statues
May 9, 2008 at 10:30 AMHrmm I am not so sure the last word is "old" now that I listen to it again.. it's hard to hear.. I'm going to post my answer now anyway based on it being "old"