User Comments - mikeinewshot
mikeinewshot
Posted on: City: Mumbai
May 11, 2009 at 6:54 AMMatt, as you were!
I have just re-re listened to the Mumbai lesson and the dialogue level is now ok!!
So it appears that it takes several hours for the new upload to be available on the server, as two hours ago it was still the low volume one.
Posted on: Seeing off a Monk, Returning to Japan -- 送僧归日本
May 11, 2009 at 5:54 AMbodawei
Now where have I heard that surname 朱 before?!
:-)
(Actually if you don't know, I believe that it is Jenny's)
Posted on: City: Mumbai
May 11, 2009 at 5:05 AMWell Matt
Actually the sound levels for the dialogue are still far too low. You must either be listening to a different recording to us, or you have misunderstood what we are saying. (We are in Europe - is there a different copy on a different server?)
The volume of the dialogue is far less than the volume of the discussion around it.
Incidentally you didn't cover the point that I and others made about the anomalous appearance of this recording, and the invisibility of comments in the conversations pages. Now comments are appearing!
Posted on: Funny Business
May 10, 2009 at 6:17 PMHaving gone through the lesson once, I think it does contain some very useful business vocabulary and expressions. Many of these however are missing from the PDF - even some of those explained by Jenny are not listed. For example:
营运 yíng yùn running / operation (of airport, bus service, business etc)
成本 chéng běn (manufacturing, production etc) costs
招待 zhāo dài to receive (guests) / to entertain / reception
花费 huā fèi expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
支出 zhī chū to spend / to pay out / expense
创造 chuàng zào to create / to bring about / to produce / CL: 個｜个
利润 lì rùn profits
削减 xuē jiǎn to cut down / to reduce / to lower
舍得 shě de to be willing to part with sth
状况 zhuàng kuàng condition / state / situation / CL: 個｜个
大手大脚 dà shǒu dà jiǎo extravagant (idiom); to throw away money by the handful / wasteful
分内 fèn nèi one's job or duty / within one's remit
大局 dà jú general situation / present conditions
把握 bǎ wò grasp / seize / hold / assurance / certainty
会计 kuài jì accountant / accounting
怀疑 huái yí to doubt / to suspect / doubt / suspicion / skeptical
All these are in the text but not in the PDF vocab
Posted on: Funny Business
May 10, 2009 at 4:50 PMI am confused. The lesson introduction at the top seems to bear no relationship to the text of the lesson! There is nothing about dirty money at all, just concealing expenditure.
(Other comments seem to allude to this)
Posted on: City: Mumbai
May 10, 2009 at 4:05 PMThis lesson hasn't appeared on my 'Me' page or on the Lessons page yet.
Wierdly neither Henning's or my comment has appeared on the Community conversation page!
I am guessing this is a result of the recent 'Maintenance' session, or is it some sort of time warp?
Posted on: Depression, Awards and Menu Theft
May 10, 2009 at 3:55 PMI guess there is a different pronunciation in England and in the US. I couldn't understand what a 'Unic' was, until I looked at the comments. In England we pronounce Eunuch "Unuc" to rhyme with suck.
Posted on: Pain and Suffering 伤心, 难受，郁闷 ,不爽，难过
May 10, 2009 at 3:42 PMBill
In the UK, pissed off means the same as pissed in the US, but pissed means drunk!
Posted on: Boston
April 24, 2009 at 7:25 AMJenny
It has just occurred to me...
Since you are considering publishing the common words and phrases you use, would you like me to dig out the vocabulary that I brought together of your Chinese words from the first 80 or so intermediate lessons? I could email it to you.
I wonder whether it might be of use to others.
Posted on: City: Mumbai
May 11, 2009 at 7:34 AMMatt
Actually I got an email with a link to this lesson, which is how I found it. So the timing of your email notifications doesn't appear to be synchronised with your publishing - However, this is hardly an important issue - just a curiosity.