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Despite the majority of our staff being passificus apatheticus when it comes to soccer football--we simply couldn’t ignore that World Cup thingy. In this podcast, Jenny, John and Aric teach “let’s go”, “great shot”, “REFEREE!!!”, and more, all in Mandarin Chinese. Now, if you’ll excuse us, there are some baseball reruns to catch.
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Downloading at the moment. Despite the passificus apatheticus, I'm sure there are a number of Europoddies (and many more) who'll be worshipping at your feet when they see the lesson online...
Aaarh! Wrong link - you've got it linked to I like Beef! Episode 91 not 92! Penalty! Penalty!
Sorry, that might have come across a bit terse...I panicked...
Hi, Nice Show! I think the link to download this episode is wrong. It is linking to the previous episode 91 and not 92. Just to let you guys know. Thanks!
Just a little side comment on 加油. I think this is a pretty old expression. When I first studied Chinese back in the early 90's, it was in our text books (Elementary Chinese Reader 1,2,3,4), which were, I'm pretty sure, published in Beijing. And I think those texts were written at 10-20 years before that. So I'm guessing it at least dates to the '70s. I still remember the smell of the paper used in those books - 很臭! ;)
Jenny, Thank you so much! Xie4 xie ni3! When I read your reply, I almost fainted! I really like the way the teaching is so personal, even though we're sitting thousands of miles away! You guys are doing a great job, and have been a great help in motivating me to keep studying at times when I've felt a bit overwhelmed. Thank you
To Jenny and the two 讨厌的大嗓门美国人**(Jenny taught me that) who pretend that they didn't play soccer when they were little, Big 谢谢for a delightful lesson, and the promise that there will be more. Since the Americans may soon be eliminated (but we will 加油them to the end), we will switch our allegiance to the Aussies. 加油to all of us learning Chinese. **tai3yan4 de da4sang3men2 mei3guo2ren2 for those who didn't read Jenny's earlier list. = obnoxious loud Americans But John and Aric, you know I don't mean it.
Thanks for fixing that, Rian. Great choice of vocab by my opinion. It's the sort of thing you can yell at the TV in the heat of the moment, during whatever sporting match you're watching. So sweet of you Jenny to pick Australia to go for (was that before or after they beat Japan in stunningly vicarious style?). 澳大利亚加油！ Actually I'm not much of a soccer fan. But who cares. Does vocab like 好球 work in other domains? For example, if someone pulls off a marvellous scheme of strategic importance in the workplace, would saying 好球 be appropriate, or would I sound like a sports nut?
Mashhood, What a stunning achievement you've made in learning the writing. It's definitely an area of interest and value to a lot of people. We could explore that possibility. We'll keep up the work. Cheers!
When I first downloaded this episode...it was the "I Like Beef" lesson. I know there is a lot of beefy players involved with the "World Cup"...but this is ridiculous. I'll re-download...and see if I get the same result.
Glad to know what "jia you" means... Ken had signed off on a comment once with "jia you" and I wondered about that... thought maybe it meant something like "have a home," i.e. "You have a home at Chinesepod." It was sort of a non sequitur, albeit a nice one. But now we know! Mike in NH, hope you can survive a few more days till you can get back to your normal routine! It probably takes a whole week just to get over half-globe jet lag??
Only stumbled upon this website - and the whole podcasting deal - today, and judging by what you guys are doing here this is going to be great. And what a nice way to study and keep studying Chinese. On my way home now to cheer our team on in Chinese tonight (they won´t understand, but well ...) Thanks a million and keep up the good work, J
Hey! Great lesson! I know this isn't entirely relevant here, but I was wondering - Ken/Jenny/Chinesepod team, do you have any plans in the future (near or distant) to integrate learning to write mandarin in the learning centre?? At the risk of sounding naive - I don't think it would be too difficult - ok - I am probably being a little naive, but to take an example from my own studies - A few weeks ago I started to learn by myself how to write some basic characters with their correct stroke order. Since then i've learnt to read and write ~ 100 characters. The main difficulty i've encountered is finding the correct stroke order. Although there are some resources on the web that show you this - they're fairly limited. I think that if stroke order animations could be added to the words in chinesepod - it would go a long way to helping those of us interested in learning to write chinese. Apart from that I think some 'texts' would be needed going from beginner to advanced level, e.g. stories and the like, and that would really help us, and hopefully appeal to more people as well. As i'm becoming more serious about my Mandarin studies, I am more inclined to subscribe to the full range of features available, however I feel that this is an area that is lacking. I understand that the main focus and purpose of chinespod is on spoken, conversational Mandarin, but if there are people who desire to learn to read and write Mandarin, perhaps this can be added in the future? Thank you and keep up the great work!!!
How can I not 加油/jia1you2/cheer for the socceroos (don't the aussies make everything cute?) after having the best part of my life down under? Since I don't have my home country to cheer for, I am wholeheartedly supporting my second home/第二故乡/di4 er4 gu4 xiang1. 加油/jia1 you2 is also frequently used to mean ' give your best'. You can shout it to your team during a fiercely competitive sports match, use it as a workout catch phrase or to a student who is sitting the university entrance exam or a painfully shy boy asking a girl out on a first date. Paul, 好球/hao3 qiu2 is only used with ball games. Otherwise, it might come across as if there's an imaginary ball in your head. (Sorry, does that sound bitterly sarcastic? I don't intent that at all.) Daniel, It's such a thrill to have a sweet 16 raving about our site. 谢谢你！/xie4 xie4 ni3/thank you! / Along with Will, 澳大利亚，加油against Brazil. Lantian, Would it be more value-addind if we had 舍甫琴科加油？ Bazza, Are you in soccer mode? Mike, It's odd to not have our normal 'Mike in Jubei' fix. 我看球不吃也不喝。So thankfully I won't be needing Aric's Ping golf clubs.石头、剪刀、布也有世界杯?! Only in Vegas.
The second download worked. Thanks for the great World Cup terminology. My favorite is "Jia You"...I heard Chinese spectators shout this at some marathons I have run in. Seems appropriate..I really need some "oil" after 26 miles. BTW...my apologies for not having a Canadian team to cheer for. I'm hoping China will make it to the final.
Dear poddies, If you've followed 世界杯/shi4jie4 bei1 / the World Cup as religiously as a lot of us do, you should find it hard to refrain from immediately using the soccer terms in today's show to comment on yesterday's matches. Here are my personal thoughts: 韩国/han2guo2 / Korea vs 多哥/duo1ge1 /Togo: 好球/hao3 qiu2/good shot/ good match 法国/fa3 guo2/France vs 瑞士队/rui4 shi4 /Switzerland: 臭球/chou4qiu2/stinky game, with a possible 黑哨/hei1 shao4/black whistle, ref on the take situation when a hand ball was ignored. 巴西/ba1xi1/Brazil vs 克罗地亚/ke4 luo2 di4 ya4/Croatia: kind of 好球/hao3 qiu2/good shot/ good match, but Ronaldo 臭球。 I risk death from sleep-deprivation to watch all the group matches, which run from 9pm to 4:30 am everyday. God, I hope they get to quarterfinals soon.
Bazza I fear that even Chinesepod, brilliant as it is, could not do that. But, hey, one can learn something useful from any Chinesepod lesson, no matter what the subject is. But where was Ken?
Jenny Be careful, what are you going to do after the 世界杯 ends and you catch up on your sleep ? Also, if you are like most people watching sports goes with eating and drinking. And you being Chinese everything goes with eating. You might find you will have to start thinking about carrying Aric's golf clubs to lose a few Kg's if you are not careful. I am in the States right now for a week and it is odd being out of time with my normal Chinesepod fix. And leave it to America, while I was channel surfing up late with jet lag I came across "The World' Championship of Rock, Paper, Scissors from of course Las Vegas! It was a great lesson and even Aric did a nice job. Mike in America
Wow, this is the real on demond show....as the opening of the World Cup more and more poddies ask for a lesson on soccer. Here we have a special show on world cup terms and we also collect a lot of useful footbal terms in our review materials and lesson plan. Why not check it out right now and learn to shout out "great shot" in Chinese while you are watching the World Cup? I bet it would be cool!
AH HUM - bèikèhànmǔ jiāyóu！贝克汉姆加油！Go! Beckham. Now was it really necessary to have that in the expansion examples? Was there real value-add there? Go Spice Girls!
Hey guys First comment ever here , I decided to pick up mandarin because im Chinese but raised completely Aussie and wanted to learn about my culture and start finding out about China. I love your shows they are so easily put together and easy to pick up whenever you want you can go threw the whole archive and pick what YOU want to learn ,i think its just fantastic and i have already learnt alot from this site and i appreciate the free podcasts. This show was great with all practical phrases , yelling at the ref hes a sellout etc ^^ Kevin and Jenny you guys are great, dont take it too seriously and make it fun , unlike alot of the robot like teachers who are so overly profession and overanalyze everything. Your speaking is always clear and easy to understand and the way you guys have made the learning curve from newbie to advanced is excellent. I love your site and will keep listening! Great to hear Jenny would choose the Aussies! They had an excellent first game ,our first win and goal ever and first game in 32 years in the world cup. Daniel 16 Sydney, Australia
Congratulations, you made the World Cup interesting. :)
[...] If you were paying close attention, you might have noted the use of some of the World Cup terms we taught in the Newbie and Upper Intermediate lessons. If not, that’s OK… I didn’t understand much of it myself! [...]
Hello Guys, I´m also new in Chinesepod and this is my first comment ever. This website is great. You guys just did it. You´ve created the best chinese learning website (tool) ever, and you bet I´ve been looking for good materials on the web. I am brazilian and my team has left the competition. It was surprising how a powerfull competitor could play so badly. All brazilians are sad. At least I have Chinesepod. Great lesson! Jia1 you2!
Hi Marco! Welcome to the CPod community. We are already putting together the CPod world cup team for 2010. Tryouts will be held in the virtual city Second Life.