QQSRX: list of episodes

[Guest realmayo]

Episode #1  2013 年11月4日
Translator photoshopped out of the photo of Zhou Enlai and Nixon shaking hands

Episode #2 2013 年10月8日

Our countrymen live frugally at home but when they're abroad buy luxury items to give their bosses.

Episode #3 2013 年12月5日

People swear oaths as easily as farting

Episode #4 2013 年12月5日

Weixin, and The DWT Prettiest Presenter Prize

Episode #5 2013 年12月17日

Tough Living Conditions

Episode #6 2013 年01月22日

It wasn’t a mistake for Wan Jiawei to pick Zhou Benshan for The Grandmaster

Episode #7 2011 年08月22日

The Smurfs Movie is not popular in Hong Kong

Episode #8 2013 年03月15日

Male Models: Ma Ying-jeou’s son-in-law isn’t a handsome guy, he actually looks more like a thief.

Episode #9 2014 年04月24日

Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism

Episode #10 1999年

Peng Liyuan

Episode #11 2014 年06月17日

The World Cup

Episode #12 2013 年10月25日

Chinese language

Episode #13 2014 年08月06日

Who wants to see their spouse every day

Episode #14 2014 年09月29日

Deng on TV, also Meng

[Guest realmayo]

New transcripts link: http://phtv.ifeng.com/listpage/677/1/list.shtml

Older transcripts link: http://phtv.ifeng.com/program/qqsrx/list_0/0.shtml

Programme's homepage: http://phtv.ifeng.com/program/qqsrx/

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/qqsrxofficial

Unofficial 'overseakids' links: http://www.overseakids.com/ (see below)

 

Beginner's guide to QQSRX on Slow Chinese

 

I enjoy listening to the TV show 锵锵三人行 (QQSRX) on Phoenix TV. Episodes are quickly put up on the TV channel's website, as are transcripts.
The format is simply three people sat down talking in the studio. The host, in the middle, is always the same. The other two are usually from a roster of core guests who I think are presenters of other programmes on Phoenix TV. The host has nice (for a northerner    ) putonghua. The guests come from different parts of Greater China.
I'm not sure how to describe what they talk about. Calling it 'current affairs' makes it sound too dry. And whatever the topic might be there's nothing to stop them going off piste and chatting about anything else.
 

Result: a steady supply of engaging and topical chat, with a broad mix of accents. Twenty minutes at a time. With transcripts!

 

I tend to watch 2 or 3 a week, while recording the audio and making an mp3. I listen to the mp3s while walking to or from work. I'll go into the transcript to make sure I understand the gist of what they're talking about, and if there are a handful of words that they keep using that seem vital to the conversation, I'll dig them out.

Once a week I try to pick one of the more interesting ones and go through the transcript much more thoroughly.
For my level of Chinese, there's still lots that I don't understand when listening to these for the first time. But despite not doing much else to improve my Chinese recently, listening to these once or twice a day for the last few weeks really seems to have improved how much I can understand. Relistening to them quite often has been extremely helpful too.
Given I'm already doing this, I reckon it makes sense to put post the fruits of my very modest labours on chinese-forums, in case anyone else finds it useful.

 

I'm hoping to put up one a week. Any contributions or discussions or explanations are extremely welcome. If anyone else fancies putting up an episode, of course that'd be great.
For the first one I've provided links, a quick summary, some vocab, and a very loose and poor translation of the first few minutes for anyone who wants a helping hand to ease them into the episode or don't yet feel comfortable working at this stuff without some kind of translation. Please feel extremely free to correct my mistakes & misunderstandings.

 

 

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To download from http://www.overseakids.com/ , which I think is an unofficial source:

 

Search for 锵锵三人 on http://www.overseakids.com/

Near the bottom of the page, you get a list of options: [视频][HD][音频][64K]

These are video; HD video; audio only; better quality audio

Click on one of those options.

From the list of episodes, right-click on the episode you want, select "save as" or equivalent.

 

You're then asked for a user name and password.

 

User name: Guest   [need the capital G]

For the password, go to http://www.overseakids.com/?node=532

At the bottom there's a yellow box with a bit of blue peeking out the bottom. Click on the blue box and drag it so that the letters/numbers in white in the blue box are visible. This is the password, which will expire in a few minutes.

 

Alternatively, you can pay USD4 for audio-only or USD16 for audio + video, via paypal or card I think, to get a proper permanent password to the whole website. I'll confirm if paying for it still actually works.

http://www.overseakids.com/?node=532

[Ruben von Zwack]

Great idea!

Imron pointed me to those and I really enjoy them too. They are still way above my current level, but not so much that I'd completely drown. I also like your routine. Looking deeper into one per week sounds manageable. Might copy that routine from you  

 

Are you planning to post episode by episode?

[imron]

Imron pointed me to those

And I found out about them from another person on the forums

 

I actually ignored checking them out for quite a while when I first heard about them, it was only when I saw the name popping up several times over the course of several months that I decided to have a look.

[tysond]

I tend to watch 2 or 3 a week, while recording the audio and making an mp3.

 

 

 

What's the easiest way to get the audio from these?  If I can get a flv or mp4 I can easily convert.  

[Ruben von Zwack]

I downloaded those from their youtube channel: qqsrxofficial

Looks like it has all 2013 episodes so far, even in playlists, and it seems they upload new episodes just as fast as to the TV station's website.

[imron]

Upvote for pointing out their official youtube channel!  The video player on their site always requires loads of buffering for me.

[Guest realmayo]

Are you planning to post episode by episode?

(Not quite sure what you mean.) I'll be picking new or recent ones that I find interesting enough to spend extra time on.

I have to admit that a decent proportion of them will propbably have the Taiwanese presenter 竹幼婷 cos she is lovely and I like the mainland versus Taiwan jokey chat they often get going, the host inveitably leaning over at one point to say 'Now look here Taiwan Meimei, see how cunning we Mainlanders are....'.

[Guest realmayo]

What's the easiest way to get the audio from these?

For me this simply involves having Audacity open, pressing record (stereo mix enabled) and then playing the video; then telling audacity to convert it to an mp3.

This also means I'm more likely to actually watch each episode rather than just listen. And depending on your level of Chinese, watching rather than juts listening to the interaction and interplay helps with following the to-and-froing of their chat, and to getting used to the people on the show.

[icebear]

You can also find them in iTunes podcasts (which will update the audio whenever a new show comes out) by searching for  锵锵三人行.

[roddy]

Excellent stuff. I'm very keen to see this continue, so will make an effort to drop in and solve any problems I can. 

 

Imron, can you remember who first mentioned this show in here? I suspect it was wushijiao, but not sure. May have been carlo or gato...

[imron]

I suspect it was wushijiao, but not sure. May have been carlo or gato...

I'm not sure, but quite likely one of those three.

[roddy]

Hmm, could it actually have been me? I honestly didn't remember that. Also - massive podcast nostalgia. Antiwave! Princess Remy! 

[Guest realmayo]

Ah you availed yourself of your own google search function I see.

 

Antiwave was always too difficult for me. But I loved Remy! Ah..... She never said goodbye did she? Hope she's ok.....

[Guest realmayo]

Added a second one. http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/42532-qqsrx-2-chinese-tourists-%E9%94%B5%E9%94%B5%E4%B8%89%E4%BA%BA%E8%A1%8C/

[Lanchong]

Am I the only one who finds Dou Wentao a little loud and shouty? Regulars like Liang Wendao might speak less standard Mandarin, but I much prefer listening to him.

[roddy]

I know what you mean. A lot of the time I think his role is to say slightly daft things that the other guests then have to rebut. 

[Guest realmayo]

Well, he keeps things moving along. The guests usually have a bit more time to think about what they're going to say & sometimes it shows!

[Guest realmayo]

#3 up http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/42639-qqsrx-3-oaths-%E9%94%B5%E9%94%B5%E4%B8%89%E4%BA%BA%E8%A1%8C/

[Guest realmayo]

I've added an alternative source of these episodes, including audio-only in decent quality, to post #2 above, copied below too. This 'login' information was first explained somewhere else on the forums years ago, I was a bit surprised to see it still works.

 

To download from http://www.overseakids.com/ , which I think is an unofficial source:

 

Search for 锵锵三人 on http://www.overseakids.com/

Near the bottom of the page, you get a list of options: [视频][HD][音频][64K]

These are video; HD video; audio only; better quality audio

Click on one of those options.

From the list of episodes, right-click on the episode you want, select "save as" or equivalent.

 

You're then asked for a user name and password.

 

User name: Guest   [need the capital G]

For the password, go to http://www.overseakids.com/?node=532

At the bottom there's a yellow box with a bit of blue peeking out the bottom. Click on the blue box and drag it so that the letters/numbers in white in the blue box are visible. This is the password, which will expire in a few minutes.

 

Alternatively, you can pay USD4 for audio-only or USD16 for audio + video, via paypal or card I think, to get a proper permanent password to the whole website. I'll confirm if paying for it still actually works.

http://www.overseakids.com/?node=532