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Posted on: Movie Time!
January 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM@SiYao, you may want to listen to the outro for the recent lesson on WeChat.
Posted on: Tumble Dry or Air Dry
January 3, 2015 at 5:11 PMYes, most likely 晒黑的晒; something like the difference between air drying your clothes and sunning them.
Posted on: Do I Need to Remove my Shoes
January 2, 2015 at 12:33 AM我估计：“入境随俗”
Posted on: Cleaning the Air Conditioning
December 31, 2014 at 4:58 AMI think the actual situation is that the "air conditioner" is pruducing smell rather than heat.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Posted on: “停用死囚器官”的伦理与法治进步
December 29, 2014 at 1:29 AM@bababardwan, 应该的。手多就减小负担嘛。其实翻译不是特别难，你的付出比我的多。不过内容让我想哭。
Posted on: “停用死囚器官”的伦理与法治进步
December 28, 2014 at 8:21 PMJenny: 好，那，感谢大家听我们今天的课程，我们应该是再见[？无法]，真的是最后我和David最后的课啊
Ok. Well, thank you everyone for listening to our lesson. We should say goodbye. This really is David’s and my last lesson.
David：最后的课来
We’ve come to the last lesson.
Jenny：最后的课讲器官[转责任]生命，最后，有意义。。。
It is ironic that the last lesson should be about organ transplants.
David：嗯
Uh he
Jenny：那最后我们想谢谢大家在过去得怎么长的时间九年半对ChinesePod支持
Finally, we want to thank everyone for supporting Chinesepod for so long, nine and a half years.
David：是的
Yep.
Jenny：对于我们上海这个团队第一天做ChinesePod用我和David真的都是元老了啊
David and I have spent a big portion of our lives with the Shanghai team.
David：嗯，我八年多[你就连多了]什么
Nine years for you. Eight for me.
Jenny：对，对我们的支持呢，呃，以后ChinesePod会有新的内容团队，他们在台湾希望大家能够继续地支持他们。。。
BTW, there will be a new production team in Taiwan. We hope you will continue to support them.
David：对，是的
Yes, definitely.
Jenny：最后，呃，就是我们还有很多很多的课。。。
Jenny：大家可以去ChinesePod library 去看了
Anyway, we have a whole lot of lessons in the library, that you can go look at.
David：去回味吧
Got get a flavor of what was.
Jenny：去听。。。对，去回味呢，呃，我们也拍了这个再见的视频。。。
Go listen, get a flavor of what was.
We also made a farewell video you can look at.
David：啊，是的
Yes, we did.
Jenny：。。。然后大家可以看一下啊，最后真的感谢大家的支持，呃，我们真的很爱你们，很感谢你们
Finally, we want to deeply thank you all for your support. We love you. Thank you. Thank you.
David：爱你们
Love you.
Jenny：对，谢谢你们就是在过去的几年让我们，让我和David[或者还有] 我们其他真的啊所有的员工有了一个那么快乐的那么有成就感的一个工作啊
Thank you all for the past several years of letting David and I have a chance to do really rewarding work.
David：是的
Yes.
Jenny：好，那，祝大家顺利幸福学中文能够成功
Ok. Then, we wish you very fulfilling and successful Chinese study.
David：嗯
Yes.
Jenny：我们再见
Goodbye
David：祝大家快乐，再见
Be happy. Goodbye.
Jenny：对，人生何处不相逢，是把，呵呵，再见
Isn’t life just made up of chance meetings? Bye.
Posted on: “停用死囚器官”的伦理与法治进步
December 28, 2014 at 2:16 AMJenny: 我们在上海这个团队都年老了。
David: 你是九年，我是八年。
Jenny:对。 以后chinesepod会有内容的团队在台湾，希望大家支持他们。
Posted on: Souvenirs of your Baby's Birth
December 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM@Bababardwan, listen to the last minute or so of the media lesson about not harvesting the organs of executed criminals, and you will know essentially all that I know. I think your Chinese is good enough that you should be able to follow what Jenny and David are saying.
I heard something similar from someone else privately a couple weeks ago. My impression was that it was a big surprise for the people affected. Then there was an interruption in the posting of new podcasts and that picture of a monitor with a keyboard shoved through it. When I attempted to renegotiate my guided subscription, I was told my teacher would not be available after the end of this month, and was encouraged to arrange an orientation session with someone teaching from Singapore.
The choice of lesson topic in which to make the announcement seems like it might be David's sense of humor, or maybe it is just coincidence.
The lack of information on why this was done, who did it, and what is coming in the future, is fertile ground for much speculation, but I basically don't know anything about any of that. Perhaps, Cthulhu bought the Chinesepod brand to lure people into his cult.
Given the odd complaint about Jenny's Mandarin being non-standard, Taiwan strikes me as an odd place to relocate Chinesepod. Taiwanese and mainlanders can understand each other's Mandarin, but there are many differences in word choice and pronunciation, and a strong preference for Traditional characters over Simplified ones. I personally don't care about this, I already have a foreign accent which I won't rid myself of in this lifetime. Overlaying it with a cute Taiwan lilt, is not all bad.
While there were some topics that Chinesepod has had to treat delicately, I can't think of anything that I want to hear more about that would necessitate a move to Taiwan. My feeling was that Chinesepod has given me a pretty good sense of what can be talked about, which is interesting in itself.
Anyway, the Cthulhu theory makes as much sense to me as anything I can reason for myself, and it makes no sense at all.
Posted on: Souvenirs of your Baby's Birth
December 26, 2014 at 6:10 AMIn the media lesson that was released today 12/25/2014, Jenny and David said goodbye and basically confirmed the rumor that Chinesepod production is moving to Taiwan. I don't know what this will mean for future lesson content, and it seems that whoever is running Chinesepod is not ready to make an official statement about this.
I do know that I will miss Jenny and David and some less visible contributors to Chinesepod greatly. I have listened to and enjoyed their shows daily since early 2007. Their humor, humanity, creativity, skill and hard work is very apparent in what they have produced.
Posted on: Pricey Parking
January 9, 2015 at 4:20 AM虽然我在美国有三十多年开车的经验，但是我个人在中国不敢开车，因为我不习惯在中国的开车模式，所以在中国我不会有这个找停车位的问题。