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zhenlijiang
Posted on: World Cup Football
June 21, 2010 at 1:57 AMHere is a transcript of this lesson. If anyone could offer help on any bits I didn't get, or spot mistakes it would be enormously appreciated!
Posted on: Football Mania
June 20, 2010 at 2:39 PMah OK thanks for that tip Baba. I'll add this info to the report I already made on the Technical Problems on Site Group.
I'd never seen the Olympics minisite. Sounds like a great resource that a lot of work went into making. Seems a waste, if it weren't kept alive and made easily accessible.
Posted on: Football Mania
June 20, 2010 at 12:40 PMBaba are you seeing this thread on the Conversations page? This week and last week the News and Features discussion has disappeared from it, and I wonder if it's just my problem or the same for everyone else. The show does appear in my dashboard--both in the Lessons section, and the discussion thread in the Conversations section.
I hear the BBC site is blocked in China (perhaps this is because they have an entry for "Taiwan" under their "Country profiles" ...) but they've got a nice section in their Chinese area on the World Cup.
On that page, click on the link (at bottom left corner with photo of the World Cup). "32强掠影" is an overview of the 32 country teams.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/indepth/cluster_2010_teams.shtml
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 18, 2010 at 4:10 AMHi Kimiik, those guys are some of the strongest humans on earth, not just packing power but supple and quick. They must not think they're paid enough, with the current gambling scandal implicating even pretty highly-ranked wrestlers and stable masters. And guess why there are virtually no Japanese contenders now for yokozuna grand champion, guess why they're all from Mongolia (or Estonia, or Bulgaria--or Hawaii, a few years back). 30-40 yrs ago they used to be big boys from northern Japan, second or third sons of farming and fishing families trying to give their parents an easier life. Training to become a sumo wrestler is tough for a teenager (hard hard training, disciplining = hazing, no freedom, homesickness, getting used to an alien culture even for Japanese). The reward of success in that field is apparently no longer attractive enough to make the sacrifices seem worthwhile; maybe life on a farm in northern Japan has gotten easier too.
Posted on: World Cup Football
June 17, 2010 at 11:07 PMI'm transcribing this lesson (wa, John new at hosting Upper Inter!) and benefiting from this list; thank you Mike esp for 应景 (which I thought was 引颈, I can see now that wouldn't fit) and 消遣.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 9:58 AMoh no, 给同学面子 gěi tóngxué miànzi fail! I disgrace my people and culture.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM(Changye is being ironic XiaoLiang! as he often is) And no, sports heroes in Japan have a hard life. We don't reward them enough at all.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 9:23 AMKonishiki (he's lost a lot of weight now thanks to surgery) in those days never had a view of anything below all that substance around the waist.
Posted on: World Cup and Diamonds
June 16, 2010 at 7:24 AMIf only he had scored a goal to equalize or upset Brazil. He would instantly have become a People's Hero, to be immortalized in textbooks and propaganda songs and bronze statues. He would have earned himself a life without cares in Pyongyang; at very least his own kingdom with palace and servants and teams of women singing and dancing his praise.
Posted on: World Cup Football
June 21, 2010 at 9:04 PMI had different takes on a couple of words:
整容 zhěnɡ rónɡ spruce up/face-lifting ➢ 阵容 zhènróng--"lineup" (in key lesson vocab)
派兵 pàibīng to dispatch troops ➢ 排兵 páibīng--is like "formation, or arrangement, of men" I think.
排兵布阵 on 百度百科
Also:
同一 tóng yī identical / the same * ➢ 同义 tóngyì--"same meaning"
(11:58) Jenny: 和“窄”是同义，是不是，“狭”。
* There is also a 同一 meaning "the same", but that appears a bit earlier, when Jenny speaks of "being in the same group with a bunch of all strong contenders, getting stuck in the Group of Death".