A fated meeting

Hmn, that's a good idea. I suppose I'm selfishingly wanting to try and do it all myself, lol :) Mind you, at this rate, I'll be doing it for a year...

Cool, just sing out if you get stuck then! Actually doggedly persisting will do your listening ability so much good.

Just wondering, are you still working on this. No pressure mind you - your year's not up yet!

Anyway, if Jenny's speaking too fast, slow her down. Windows Media Player can be slowed down to 50%, in increments of 10%.

I haven't done any more on it. The chinese was really way too hard for me. Go ahead if you wanted to do it, if not I may pick it up at a future stage.

I was already using the slow-down feature. It's kind of fun to listen to them drunk, but Jenny was talking so fast in this one, it often doesn't help.

I've still got a large number of the 32 transcripts to finish, so I'll leave it to you. I just thought you might want some help.

The Chinese is generally too difficult for me too. I think the issue is Pinyin recognition. When something is said clearly, without slurring (a lot of Jenny's words are slurred - and thats not a slur on Jenny - we all slur words when talking at conversational speed), even if it is said quickly, I can generally pick up the Pinyin. I mightn't know what it means, but the correct Pinyin allows me to look it up on an online dictionary - I use Yellowbridge when I'm just searching by Pinyin without tones (otherwise I use Nciku).

I'm not sure how your recognition is with regard to unknown words and their Pinyin, but maybe that is something you could practise with your girlfriend.

Yea, my method is pretty similar, as is my thought process. Basically, I just need to find time to bore my girlfriend senseless for an hour or two helping me with it :)

No objection from me! It's way beyond my level at the mo :)

Looks like a great effort zhen, there's not much missing really I'd say. Some of the times are in red too though, does that mean you're unsure of those?

I'm afraid to say that Google Docs seems to be totally 被屏蔽了 for us in China now, (not just access to creating & editing docs but even links like this one of yours and all my previous ones, *sigh*). Anyway many thanks for your hard work.

Oh ... wonder where's the best place to go then. It's not that I'm in love with GoogleDocs anyway.

Thanks for taking the time to review my work. Those timecodes in red I just inserted as markers in case someone didn't feel like going through the whole 17 minutes but had a moment to listen to that bit of audio.

啊对了，I've been thinking, how about creating Lesson Sets of those lessons that have transcripts in TWT? Because hopefully such lists would be ever-growing, maybe they should be grouped by year as well as level. Lesson Sets would be helpful to poddies who want to know which lessons have transcripts (in addition to the list you compiled and posted). What do you say?

GoogleDocs is still fine for everyone outside China of course, but I'm considering using zoho.com , the site xiaophil recommended to us for my own future efforts, erm... not that I've been terribly productive recently.

Lesson sets? Sorry, can you elucidate further, maybe give an example of what you mean?

Maybe I need to update that list again. Seems like we've got a lot going on here these days. I guess I mostly rely on folks finding the ones they're interested in either from a link in the lesson comments or from browsing the group.

all my previous ones

..hey tal, that's no good mate. I'm a bit tied up at the moment but when I get a chance I should copy from those google docs and paste them in the appropriate transcripts with tal thread, so we've got them here for folks like yourself. Feel free to remind me.

No worries mate, I can get to Google docs through my VPN. (It's quite likely that most other ex-pats in China do the same.) It's still a shame though.

Oh there are veteran poddies who have not heard of Lesson Sets.

(゜o゜) Okay. At the bottom of the page where all the links are, the second column from the left is Lessons. Under it is Sets. That's where they are. There are CPod's Sets (Love Tangle, Lao Wang--all those series are addable to your archive = bookmarkable en masse. For a new user, it's convenient to go and be able to do that, rather than comb through Lesson Lists looking for every lesson in a series he's interested in), and Sets users have put together and shared. The Intermediate Set called "Easies" is mine.

I figure it's just another channel to let people know there are transcripts for some lessons.

Spare me the sarcasm please. I am aware that there sets of lessons here at CPod, but there aren't corresponding sets of transcripts, are there? I was simply hoping you'd expand on how your idea would work, but never mind.

Tal--why would you think I would be sarcastic? I was not.

Yeah never mind. You're in no mood to talk to right now.