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$ 3.25 Chinesepod Full-Transcript Inter Lesson 40 Pissed Off!

$ 2.99 Chinesepod Full-Transcript Inter Lesson 43 How’s Business?
$13.00 That’s Outrageous plus next four Subscription
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$ 3.25 Chinesepod Full-Transcript Inter Lesson 52 : Old Friend
$ 4.25 Chinesepod transcript Inter Lesson 56 A Fated Meeting
$ 1.25 Chinesepod transcript Inter Lesson 28 Negotiating
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Full-Transcript Inter Lesson 43 How’s Business?

Chinesepod Full-Transcript Intermediate Lesson 43 How’s Business

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Transcript of entire unscripted dialogue from podcast

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“The Watergate tapes are the most famous and extensive transcripts of real-life speech ever published. When they were released, Americans were shocked, though not all for the same reasons…one thing that surprised everyone was what ordinary conversation looks like when it is written down verbatim.”

The transcript of this lesson is the first with three people in the conversation. Jenny, Ken and Aggie. Our transcriptionist had an extra hard time with catching what was being said. It makes for interesting studying though.

Enjoy the transcript!

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Please take a look at this blog’s Cpod Full-Transcript category for posts and other transcriptions that may fit your needs. There are now a wide variety of price ranges (from 99 cents, to five bucks. ) and a subscription plan. The subscription plan includes That’s Outrageous plus the next four transcripts.

Learning Vocab the Hard-Drive Way

VOCAB STRATEGIES - There’s the frequent refrain, how do I learn Chinese vocabulary?! We’ve all heard the various strategies, flashcards, get out and talk, learn one word a day, stickies, you name it.

I have a new strategy, let some little disaster come into your life. You’ll pick up a few new words. Mine is ‘ying pan’. Ying is the word for hard. And pan is the word for box-like. Hence the meaning ‘hard drive’.

Over the course of a week I had one computer harddrive fail. Okay, no problem I started to use the notebook. Virus. Okay, there’s the other notebook, can’t connect to the internet. The internet goes out because I hadn’t paid the landline phone. Who even uses it anymore! My life devolves into a non-tech abyss.

Anyway, this made me desparate enough to ‘keep my chin up’ and call 10000, the Chinese version of the phone company help line. You might be thinking they have an option ‘Press O’ for English. You’d be wrong! Luckily I could ‘hear’ enough to catch “#3 Shangwang fuwu”. Hey, hey, hey, did you get it, that’s Internet service. After asking for an English speaking operator I got, “Well would you like to try in Chinese?” In Chinese! Forget $10 for a Chinese lesson, come to China and mess up your phone and computers, get nice patient Chinese people speaking to you.

I am both flattered and aghast. Anyway, that was then that I learned that I couldn’t connect thru my ADSL because the houseline had gone unpaid for too long. Off to the office, cash in hand I went. “Dian hua fei” that means phone bill.

It was after I had so proudly accomplished all this, that I returned home to find the ADSL reset and me without any slip of paper of the original password. Oh boy. Another call into 1000, and hey - the super patient- operator helped me reset the password. “Mi ma” that’s password. There’s also ‘bo hao’ for something akin to username.

After this, I was really on a role and decided to do a clean re-install of WindowsXP. That’s when I really ‘hosed’ my machine. That’s ’si ji le’ from our recent Cpod lesson. I really wacked it good, my Bios couldn’t read the external CD drive, no way to boot. Yup, yup, yup. That led to my next call, to the computer guy.

I still don’t know how to say ‘operating system’ in Chinese, but luckily Microsoft has taken over the world and my mutterings of ‘….XP’ were enough for us to communicate my plight.

He came over, I had really messed everything up bad, so he took all the drives back to the office to do the installs. That’s where they are now, and why I’m at a ‘Wang ba’, internet bar. Here I also had to catch the words ‘mima yi er san si wu liu’ said in rapid-fire Chinese. That is, the password is 123456.

That all said, the Full-transcripts are slightly delayed this week. Hope you’re reviewing the previous ones!

Full-Transcript Inter That’s Outrageous, Plus More

Full-Transcript for Intermediate Show 42: That’s Outrageous

This podcast was great! It was John’s first show and it’s almost entirely in Chinese. The pace is quite moderate though and the Chinese banter is easy to follow. There is just so much for the learner in this show. This is all in the banter not the scripted dialogue:

Bargaining
个人说一千五百块，还有一个人说什么三千块

ge4ren2 shuo1 yi1qian1 wu3bai3 kuai4 ， hai2 you3 yi1 ge5 ren2 shuo1 shen2me5 san1qian1 kuai4

One person says 1,500 and the other says what’s this 3,000?

Expressing Emotion

嗯，cat fight.我们都喜欢cat
en2 ， cat fight wo3men5 dou1 xi3huan1 cat

Yah, “cat fight” we like “cat”.

Travel Vocabulary

诶，对，我们的呃飞机上的那些，呃 different kinds of seating，对吧？
ei2 ， dui4 ， wo3men5 de5 e4 fei1ji1 shang4 de5 na4xie1 ， e4 different kinds of seatin， dui4ba5 Yah, right. When we fly there are different kinds of seating, right?

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Bargaining, expressing emotion, travel tips. This lesson’s full transcript appeals to students, the highly emotional and business travelers! It’s a premium lesson, quality content. I’m going to let that be reflected in the price of this full-transcript, five bucks. US$5.00. I’m not going to discount it in the future either, it’s just too good.

We do have something new though for my loyal customers, a new Subscription Option. You can purchase “That’s Outrageous” plus the next four transcripts for US$13.00 with one click and just one Paypal payment. Please click a link below to purchase and get immediate download.

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Lastly, why not post a few comments after your review of this transcript? I’ll be posting some comments in a few days after I spend some time with it. I’d love to see what other’s found interesting. What lexical phrases did you spend more time with? Was there a way Jenny or John said something that’s not like how the textbooks do it? Post and let’s go thru it together. Makes the learning fun and easy.

The Full-Transcripts Continue

Hi Everyone,

It’s Monday, there is a typhoon swirling around southern China, it’s a weeklong holiday — happy 国庆节. We would have liked to put out a new transcript today, it is in the works, but let’s just say it’s been ’scheduled’ for next Monday!

Don’t forget though, there are all the previous transcripts stilll out there for you to get. Click in the navigation panel on the right-hand side, Chinesepod Transcripts. In those old posts are the links to the various transcripts.

Happy reading! 

 

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In this lesson Jenny and John go over a scripted dialogue of a manager giving feedback to an employee. It’s excellent material for those of you working or planning to work in a Chinese environment. John and Jenny describe some of the moeedback to an employee.re subtle implications of the tone of the Chinese. Use this full-transcript of the banter to catch the parts that whizzed by too quickly.

Although this is an upper intermediate podcast, the phrases and vocabulary that John and Jenny use are not particularly specialized or advanced. An elementary or intermediate student can gain a lot of value from listening to this. Review this full-transcript and see clearly how John asks for clarification in Chinese, and see the brief colloqial sentences. It’ll make it easier to incorporate into your own Chinese.

John： Yah, so pay attention to the tone…
Jenny：对，这个在中文我们叫做‘语气’。
John： 呃，语气。
Jenny： The tone of your voice…那样的啊。那么嗄——在这个之前，John，你说我们是直接听对话呢，还是先来看看有哪几个词我们的……
John： 我觉得今天的词都不太难，（嗯）我们还是要注意语气吧！

 

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The FTI (Full-Transcript Initiative) is Building a Nice Library of Transcripts:

Full-Transcripts Inititiative (FTI): Update 2

September 2, 2006 on 3:10 am | In Chinesepod Transcripts | 1 Comment

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to those of you who have already made a purchase of our first professional full-length transcript of a Chinesepod podcast. As an added incentive I’ve decided to try the Disney-DVD model of antagonizing, excuse me, encouraging new customers to make a purchase. I’m going to pull this first transcript off the market for an undisclosed time in three days. That means on Monday Sept 4, it will no longer be available! Of course on Monday I will publish a new transcript for another lesson. So hurry and send that Paypal cash over and buy the first transcript now!

We are also now thinking of offering a Paypal BuyItNow button for a package of the next five transcripts. This would allow us to fund FTI on a more consistant basis and ensure that we keep getting our transcripts. What do you think? Do people like that idea? And I’ll be totally upfront, how much would you pay for 5 transcripts and be peachy keen with the price?

To be fun and interesting I also thought that package buyers will get a bonus transcript that I will delay for a real long time putting out for general purchase. So who’s up for it?

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