Intermediate - Windows 8 - Poddies collaboration

chris

00:00

John: Hey guys, you're listening to an intermediate lesson on Chinesepod, I'm John.

David: 我是【xu zhou】(David's Chinese name, not sure of the characters)

John: And today we have a lesson about Windows 8

David: 嗯，是一个操作系统

John: An operating system

David: 是的

John: And how do you say Windows 8 normally in Chinese?

David: Win八

John: Win八

David: 嗯

John: So the English word 'win'

David: Yeah

John: Win八

David: Win八

John: Ok, so today we're going to hear some opinions, some Chinese opinions on Win八 and they're not all postive, right?

David: 嗯，是的

John: Alright, let's listen.

00:30

toianw

Evening Chris. Davd is aka 徐洲

chris

cheers mate. Unusual to hear David doing an Intermediate. I've been away from cpod for several months up until last week or so, so i'll be intrigued to see if he's done any others in the back catalogue from September that I need to catch up on.

chris

01:00

对话

01:14

John: OK, so in the beginning of the dialogue what is the reason they start talking about reinstalling the operating system?

David: 啊，因为那个女孩子的电脑中毒了要重装系统中毒了

John: OK, so 中毒 this is 4th tone, 2nd tone, that means to get a virus, right?

01:33

chris

01:33

David: 中了电脑病毒

John: OK, so 中毒 means to get a virus, it's a verb

David: 对

John: But the word for virus if you just want to talk about a virus by itself is what again?

David: 病毒，病毒

John: OK, also 4th tone, 2nd tone

David: 诶

John: OK, so apparently it's a pretty bad virus so they have to reinstall the operating system, how do you say that?

David: 重装系统，重装系统

01:58

chris

01:58

John: OK, so 重装，2nd tone, 1st tone, means to reinstall

David: 嗯

John: And then system, right?

David: 唉，是的

John: Is 4th tone, 3rd tone

David: 是的

John: 系统

David: 系统

John: OK, 重装系统

David: 诶，那么女孩子一般是喜欢新的东西，对吧

John: 嗯

David: 然后你们男孩子就推荐他说装一个win8系统

John: OK win8 and what's her question about it?

David: 啊那个女孩子问好用吗，好用吗

02:30

chris

02:30

John: 好用 so that should be easy to use, right?

David: 嗯，因为那个男孩子好像之前已经用过了win8

John: 嗯，嗯

David: 所以那个女孩子就问他好用吗

John: OK, and what does he say?

David: 啊好像不怎么样，那个男的说老实说不怎么样用户体验很糟糕

John: OK, so first of all 老实说 this isn't the word 老师，they're not talking about a teacher, what the teacher said

David: 老师，师是第一声，这里是轻声

03:00

chris

00:30

对话

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