Intermediate - Renting an apartment through an agent 3 - Poddie collaboration

chris

April 06, 2011, 03:10 PM posted in Transcripts with Tal

Let's give another a go, now that I've been bitten by the bug. No reason for this specific Intermediate, other than it's next on my study list!

chris

John: Chinesepod listeners, this is an intermediate lesson and my name is John.

JZ: 大家好我是Jenny.

John: And today we're renting an apartment. This is part of an ongoing series, right?

JZ: 对，之前呢我们已经跟着这个房客就是要租房子的人，吴先生去看了一套房子

John: OK, 房客, right?

JZ: 对

John: So, that's like 房子的房

JZ: 然后客人的客

John: So, house guest meaning tenant.

JZ: 对

John: Not house guest.

00:30

cinnamonfern

Looks like you got it to work - that's good!

watyamacallit

The only (trivial) correction is JZ (2): 对，那之前呢...

chris

00:30

JZ: 不是，房客

John: OK, so we've got the tenant, or the potential tenant.

JZ: 对

John: And then, who else do we have here?

JZ: 还有一个房东。房东

John: And that's the landlord.

JZ: 嗯

John: And then there's a third person too, right?

JZ: 对，是在中间的人，就是一个中介，中介。

John: OK, so the person in the middle is the agent.

JZ: 是的

John: OK, so you might not hear all of those words, but those are the three people you're going to hear talking and, uh, do we need to know anything else before we listen in?

00:59

chris

JZ: 今天的对话我觉得不是太难，我们这节听一下吧

John: Alright, let's listen.

对话

01:30

watyamacallit

Sounds correct, but is 节 the measure word for dialogs?

Hi watyamacallit, not sure what the measure word for dialogues is. I went with 节 since I recall this was the MW for "lessons", e.g. 这节课。 I guess it could be 届 which, according to Lingoes, is a MW for events, meetings, etc.