32 Transcripts
go_manly
May 17, 2010, 09:52 PM posted in Transcripts with TalWell, one of my students came through with 32 Intermediate transcripts. At my request (to save time), he didn't bother with Pinyin, or any of the English spoken by John or Jenny. So I have left the file in Word form so people can edit it as they wish.
Thanks to Richy for the time spent on those.
I had to restrain myself from laughing when another student came up to me and apologised for not doing any transcripts because "My little brother destroyed your CD". I have never actually heard someone try to use this excuse before. At least his dog didn't eat it.
tiaopidepi
May 02, 2010, 05:49 AMThanks, man. Looks great now.
zhenlijiang
January 28, 2010, 06:34 AMWow Bob. That's impressive!
Do you by any chance have a list of which 32 lessons these are?
Tal
January 28, 2010, 06:38 AMAstonishing!
A list of the lessons covered might be a good idea though Bob, they don't seem to be in any particular order. I think at least one of them I have previously covered myself.
xiaophil
January 28, 2010, 06:44 AMWah! 192 pages! Hahahaha. I can't believe it. Ricky is the man.
xiaophil
January 28, 2010, 06:57 AMHere are the first ten lessons:
1. 0488 A Business Dinner with a Supplier
2. 1077 A Firing Afoot
3. 0390 A Guy's Advice on Women
4. 1292 A Phone Call to the Moving Company
5. 0369 An Old Flame
6. 0929 Antiperspirant in China
7. 0086 Apartment Hunting
8. 0563 Baby Care
9. 1246 Bali Interview
10. 0916 Bangkok
go_manly
January 28, 2010, 07:01 AMWell, as I said, I've left in as a Word document for people to edit, so feel free to create your own lesson list. The only editing I've had time to do is to put all the transcripts into one document, and to change the font of the characters. (I'd be interested to know what font you are seeing, because it is unlikely you have mine installed). I will be going through the lessons one at a time as I get the time, adding Pinyin and a Vocab list - but don't let me stop anyone who wants to do that first!
go_manly
January 29, 2010, 06:50 AMI've been looking through the first transcription "A Business Dinner with a Supplier".
It seems my transcriber made some errors. I've corrected some myself, but could someone help me out with the following:
1. (0:50) 招待其实就是请客的意思。(sounds like 2 syllables, not 4)
2. (0:59) 那当然，吃喝招待在中国是非常重要的，生意，对吧？ (Sounds to me like the comma should be one character later, and is 喝 right?)
3. (3:09) 然后你非常的尊重他，所以他的名字是很厉害的，大名。(sounds to me more like suǒyǐ shuō nǐ)
4. (3:29) 但是咱们中国人... (sounds like dāng to me)
5. (3:32) 对呀，就说久仰大名。好那接下来呢，别人就可能(?)回答你，... (the jiù sounds more like ju jiang / there seems to be another syllable where the ? is)
6. (6:09) 对。就是说你要做很多... (Is it correct?)
7. (7:22) 就是说你(?)掌握的东西不够你使用。(There seems to be another syllable where the question mark is)
8. (8:25) 对呀，你说过以后你肯定就不记得了，因为都醉了嘛。(I'm not hearing that. Not sure what it is though.)
9. (8:47) 我们赶快来听听他们这段精彩的对话。(Again, I'm not hearing that.)
10. (10:31) John老实说啊，今天的这个课，是Peter这一系列里我是最喜欢的，因为比较有趣，是吧？ (Is it correct?)
11. (10:46) 这样大家(?)觉得私人关系比较好。(I'm hearing another syllable)
BTW, I'm wondering what my transcriber was thinking when he wrote Chinesepot.com
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zhenlijiang
I'm finding the time code showing when I play back this dialogue to be a bit screwy, making it hard to find the points you've brought up.
The first four questions I've gone over though:
1) Jenny says this really quickly, she is saying 其实就是.
2) You're right, it should be 那当然吃，和（not 喝）招待在中国是……
3) Right again. That should be 然后你非常的尊重他，所以说你（的）名字是很厉害的，大名。
4) This is 但是咱们中国人……
Just a suggestion Bob--it would be helpful if you posted the link to the lesson with the questions. Sorry if this sounds like grumbling, but it's just that much more trouble, to go search and find the lesson being talked about.
And can you tell us which 32 lessons have been covered here? It's not that I want a list really. And why don't I just go and look through to find out? Well I started to (and I have a feeling that's why Phil's list only goes down to the first 10), but scrolling through such a big document to find all the titles was terribly straining on the eyes, I abandoned that attempt pretty quickly.
go_manly
January 31, 2010, 12:55 AMbump
bodawei
January 28, 2010, 06:27 AMI'm impressed that you dragged them away from computer games and into a socially worthwhile pursuit. :-) And 'good work' to Ricky.
I've just finished my first semester teaching Chinese students in China. In two courses (and four classes) there was only one 'late' assignment (illness was the reason). Nothing along the lines of the dog ate my homework. I was puzzled by this absolute compliance.
Lots of excuses for missing class - because an excuse constitutes 'leave' and cannot be used against them in their final mark. Mostly the excuses were 'I have a family matter', ganmao and laduzi. A couple of students took leave to look after sick/dying relatives.
zhenlijiang
January 31, 2010, 09:26 PMI'm finding the time code showing when I play back this dialogue to be a bit screwy, making it hard to find the points you've brought up.
The first four questions I've gone over though:
1) Jenny says this really quickly, she is saying 其实就是.
2) You're right, it should be 那当然吃，和（not 喝）招待在中国是……
3) Right again. That should be 然后你非常的尊重他，所以说你（的）名字是很厉害的，大名。
4) This is 但是咱们中国人……
Just a suggestion Bob--it would be helpful if you posted the link to the lesson with the questions. Sorry if this sounds like grumbling, but it's just that much more trouble, to go search and find the lesson being talked about.
And can you tell us which 32 lessons have been covered here? It's not that I want a list really. And why don't I just go and look through to find out? Well I started to (and I have a feeling that's why Phil's list only goes down to the first 10), but scrolling through such a big document to find all the titles was terribly straining on the eyes, I abandoned that attempt pretty quickly.
go_manly
February 01, 2010, 04:47 AMOK, here is the lesson list (all Intermediate):
A Business Dinner with a Supplier
A Firing Afoot
A Guy's Advice on Women
A Phone Call to the Moving Company
An Old Flame
Antiperspirant in China
Apartment Hunting
Baby Care
Bali Interview
Bangkok
Beauty Pageant: It's A Mess
Booking a Plane Ticket
Borrowing Money
Business Card Gone Wrong
Calling a Supplier for a Quote
Chicago
China's Supergirl
Chinese Celebrity-Bruce Lee
Christmas
City Comparison
City-Mumbai
Describing Travels
Dog Personalities
Finding a Street Number
Flowers and Bugs
Fortunate Cookies
Future Plans
Getting to Know the Beauty Pageant Judges
Going On A Diet
Gone Fishing
Grab Some Veggies From the Store
Here She Comes
By the way, is there an html code we can use to get a line feed without the double spacing? It would be especially good if there was a code you only had to apply it once to a list like this.
zhenlijiang
Thanks for providing the titles Bob. So they're in alphabetical order. I'll try when I have the time to go look through the rest of your questions (like I said though, I'm having a bit of difficulty with the time code).
go_manly
Yes, they are in alphabetical order, but that is only because I combined Ricky's separate Word files in that order - naturally the file names appeared in alphabetical order on the CD he gave me. I gave him a CD with about 100 podcasts - apparently he chose the shortest ones to do first, why is why Ken appears in many of these lessons.
zhenlijiang
February 01, 2010, 09:25 AMThanks for providing the titles Bob. So they're in alphabetical order. I'll try when I have the time to go look through the rest of your questions (like I said though, I'm having a bit of difficulty with the time code).
zhenlijiang
February 08, 2010, 04:23 AMI'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back on A Business Dinner With a Supplier. The audio player on this lesson is in bad shape--I suppose I should have used some other audio player (therefore, the time codes didn't mean very much to help me find these points).
5) (3:32)
对呀，就说久仰大名。好那接下来呢，别人就可能(?)回答你，... (the jiù sounds more like ju jiang / there seems to be another syllable where the ? is)
对呀，就将说‘久仰大名'。好，那接下来呢，别人就可能会回答你......
6) (6:09)
对。就是说你要做很多... (Is it correct?)
sorry I couldn't find this point, as the time code doesn't help me and there wasn't much else by way of a marker in the context.
7) (7:22)
就是说你(?)掌握的东西不够你使用。(There seems to be another syllable where the question mark is)
就是说你所掌握的东西不够你使用。
8) (8:25)
对呀，你说过以后你肯定就不记得了，因为都醉了嘛。(I'm not hearing that. Not sure what it is though.)
对呀，你说过肯定是以后你不记得了，因为都醉了嘛。
9) (8:47)
我们赶快来听听他们这段精彩的对话。(Again, I'm not hearing that.)
Sounds more like dan to me than duan, but I can't think what it could be, other than 段.
10) (10:31)
John老实说啊，今天的这个课，是Peter这一系列里我是最喜欢的，因为比较有趣，是吧？ (Is it correct?)
John老实说啊，今天的这个课，是Peter (I hear another syllable here but don't know what it is: ju?) 这一系列里面我是最喜欢的，因为比较有趣，是吧？
11) (10:46)
这样大家(?)觉得私人关系比较好。(I'm hearing another syllable)
这样大家会觉得私人关系比较好。
And the other thing, I haven't referred to the document either.
Hope this helps though.
go_manly
Thanks for that. I probably won't have time to look at it this week though.
The times I have are from Windows Media Player.
go_manly
February 08, 2010, 05:01 AMThanks for that. I probably won't have time to look at it this week though.
The times I have are from Windows Media Player.
tiaopidepi
May 01, 2010, 07:26 PMThis word doc won't open for me. Anyone else having problems?
go_manly
May 01, 2010, 11:54 PMIt seems the file somehow got corrupted.
Try this new link for the 32 transcripts.
CPOD: I wanted to edit the link in my original post. But when I went to my list of posts, only one page was shown. Why aren't we able to edit ALL of our posts?
bababardwan
January 31, 2010, 01:05 AM"BTW, I'm wondering what my transcriber was thinking when he wrote Chinesepot.com"
hehe,yeah,I noticed that Freudian slip typo.
bababardwan
January 28, 2010, 05:39 AM32!!! Whoa,awesome mate...legendary stuff.Thankyou :)