It's a bird... it's a plane... no. It's the biggest thing to hit China since ping pong. Meet another sport beloved by the Chinese. In this podcast, listen in to a badminton game as it was meant to be played... in Mandarin. Next time you hit the court, you'll be able to smash that birdie with the best of 'em.
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Was anyone else aware of the fact that Vera is Chinesepod's star badminton player?
啊呀，我真是太不好意思。其实我的水平很“臭”。我是真正的Newbie.
哈哈，太好了！ 这是我最爱的运动。。。回家了就得听听这节课
对高中课程来说这节听起来比较简单吧！
Whooo! What's with the background music? I didn't get the association between the 音乐 and the 羽毛球。
I think the music was a video game-esque sound effect marking the great shot.
Oh, thanks, Amber...I don't play arcade games so I guess it's my ignorance.
In the explanation, Jenny seems to pronounce 喏 as 'nao2', but the PDF transcript has it as 'nuo4'. Is it just my ears or my ignorance again?
In China my co-workers all play badminton every wed night for physical fitness. They play indoors in a gym with no air conditioning. They believe you shoud sweat, because it is healthy. At least that was the explanation. There are no showers either. A little different than here where badminton is only played at picnics outdoors and not taken very seriously. At least that has been my experience. I had to teach them what a "birdie" was but they are very good at the game. A good idea actually for staying in shape. Thanks for the lesson. I can use the vocab.
I remember in the Philippines around 4 years ago there was this badminton explosion, suddenly Badminton courts appeared everywhere, and everyone was playing it!
我记起来4年前左右在菲律宾羽毛球突然受欢迎，哪里都有新建的羽毛球场，大家都要打！
nick,
你说的对。但是现在没有了。。
BWF rankings @ http://www.internationalbadminton.org/ranking.asp中国人多了！
呵呵，那段音乐太夸张了吧，不过很有创意啊！
rjberki,
i'm not sure what you mean by "here", but in Canada we actually take badminton pretty seriously. though many people haven't even heard of it, most people who have are quite good. of course, half of them are overseas chinese.
but like in america, we still consider pingpong an activity, not a sport.
loved the lesson, except the crazy music lol. . i didn't really get that.
At last - a lesson on Badminton - I will have to change my profile now!
Well I was pleased to hear that "in Canada we actually take badminton pretty seriously"!! and that badminton is only played a picnics outdoors!
In some parts of the world, it is regarded as a major sport; not only in China. It was as far as I know invented in England (like many sports).
In my humble opinion it is the most skilfull and demanding racquet sport. I believe it the fastest (a split second to retrieve the shot) and it is the subtlest with deception playing a large part with variety of shot in all three spatial dimensions, not only width, and length but also height.
On a different note, this has to be shortest ever dialogue for an upper intermediate. Dumbing down has reached new depths.
很好
可能是因为作者对羽毛球也不了解吧 － 那样的话，内容是比较难充足的。 而且那种话题说的越多，词就越专用的；专用此用的太多，同学们就感到这节课不太实用。你们想学更多羽毛球方面的专用词就下载一些cctv的羽毛球赛直播，他们的讲解很丰富。
打羽毛球很有趣，我也常常和中国朋友一起打。玩羽毛球只需要一个球，两只球拍和两个人，并不需要像网球场乒乓球台那样的其他设备道具。无论男女老少，大家什么时候都能轻松打羽毛球，就是这个运动项目的最大的优点，但同时也是缺点。
你在中国小城市里很容易就看到不少职员服务员上班的时候公然玩羽毛球。说实话，我也是个那种职员。老板出差不在的时候，我们公司前边的庭院就变成个羽毛球比赛场地。羽毛球风大的时候不好打。但不用担心，我们公司还有一个乒乓球台！
hey chinesepod
got a quick request
can someone please dlete my entire vocab for me because it isnt working and i have thosands of words and to manually delete them page by page is ging to take me to long. I would like to start my vocab list again anyway
thank you very much
tim aka ilovechina777
我还没有打过羽毛球！ 在澳大利亚我很少碰到羽毛球，我想大部分人更喜欢网球。我小的时候也参加网球，篮球和足球的团队。
我想试试打羽毛球！ 我总看到中国人打过！
谢谢CPOD
哎呦，我非常喜欢打羽毛球，可是来到美国以来一个打羽毛球的机会都没啦……真惨哪。美国人真瞧不起羽毛球，或者……觉得好无聊。我期待回我老家（新德里）去再打一场。
Chillosk,
对啊，羽毛球突然受欢迎，也突然过时了！
Nick,
Well, you know what they say, easy come easy go. 像Zagu-craze 一样。
狂热流行都是匆匆来匆匆走的。
I never played this game before I came to Taipei/Beijing, but now I can't get enough, thanks for the lesson guys!
在加州这边高中的羽毛球对不少，好像是因为华人越南人比较多。我有个越南的同事，她高中的时候是排球队员，朋友都说她的羽毛球的技术很不错。
Here in Northen California, a lot of high schools have serious badminton teams, maybe because of the large Chinese and Vietnamese populations, I'm not sure. I have a Vietnamese coworker who supposedly was a fearsome badminton player in high school.
我去中国读书前没有打过羽毛球。在那边发现羽毛球就是非常好玩的！
Good vocab!
Thanks for the great lesson !
I'll definitely use the vocabulary when playing with my chinese friends next time :-)
Here in Europe many people also think badminton is not a real sport, just some recreational activity to be played in a park. In that case watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71aeOYS9I8
Badminton is actually the fastest ball game, just watch this 305 km/h smash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r590F7mRTw
我昨天跟一个中国朋友关于怎们用“菜”讲过了。他说“菜”其实是起源于“菜鸟”的一个词。菜鸟是不是一只真正的鸟？多谢，弗朗克
ilovechina777 你在澳洲哪个城市呢？其实到处都有地方打的，只要你有人给你介绍。如果你在悉尼的话，我应该帮得了你吧。
Well, I have to admit, if I had ever played serious badminton on a team with uniforms, I would have never had a girlfriend... it's just not considered a man's game here (or a girls game, actually)...
But all of that aside, it is really really fun, and I enjoy it for the laughs and social aspect. ;)
This lesson reminds me of Mila Superstar, an very old japanese anime about a volley ball player who had al those funny smashes. I think it was my first contact with japanese culture ^_^
你好Chees
谢谢你的邀请帮我打羽毛球，可是很可惜因为我现在住在香港！ 我的澳大利亚老家就是墨尔本，所以没办法跟你见面。 如果有时候能到悉尼去，你可以帮我打羽毛球。你是不是澳洲人？ 我的中文水平是很差，我也觉得住在香港对我的普通话是不太好，因为大家总是说白话！
oooh i am terrible at badminton, but when i studied in taiwan, i found a racket in my dorm closet and had to give it a try. if anyone is ever in the rochester ny area and wants to practice badminton AND chinese, let me know!! great lesson!
在英国羽毛球肯定算严重的运动。每一个运动中心有几个羽毛球场，。我自己喜欢打网球， 羽毛球我不太了解，但是我想有一个术语你们翻译错了。你把·接球·翻译为"return a shot" 我觉得应该翻译为"receive a shot (serve)"......用英语可以说"server and receiver"。 这个接就是接受的接。
hi markc,
In Chinese, it's kind of one and the same action, the use the same word to mean both receive and return a shot.
Nice lesson, guys. A bit beyond me, I'm really between Elementary and Intermediate, but I play badminton with some Chinese friends here in Shanghai and wanted to be able to talk with them more about our matches. And yes, rjberki, the courts are not air-conditioned and we sweat, a lot (especially me!) And there are no showers, so I consider myself lucky to be able to get a taxi home.
Thank you for this lesson. Hope you can do more with Newbie and Elementary levels including the names of your top players for me to say them properly like, Lin Dan, Fu Hai Feng, Cai Yun, Wang Lin, Xie Xin Fang, Zhang ning...and others including also the equipments in badminton and the strokes in badminton...thanks and more power to chinesepod...
我就想问一下,我每一个礼拜差不多一次去打羽毛球,但我没听说过扣球,我的朋友都说杀球,杀球就是比较口语吗?
Hi pi11ock
下面是刚才在网上找到的一个简单解释，但是我不知道是否正确。
扣球讲究的是看准了用力一击，杀球讲究的是快。
pi11ock,
杀球和扣球是一样的。“杀球”更规范(standard)。