Can You Understand This Dialogue?

[AlexanderLivius]

To make a long story short, my girlfriend and I enrolled in a Chinese correspondence course through our college this summer.

Essentially, we've been given some textbooks and at the end of the quarter we submit our work to the prof for grading.

It is going really well, but the spoken dialogues in one textbook (Integrated Chinese 1.2) are always challenging.

This week we are totally stuck.

So I would like to ask if anyone here would be so kind to help some newbies out.

Furthermore, we would love to hear any tips on how to improve auditory comprehension while being on our own.

~Alex

Dialogue Audio

[Joshmakesnoise]

我的狗小白早上六点起床，起床以后如果不下雨就请带她去公园运动半个钟头 如果下雨就让它在家看碟看半个钟头 然后给他吃点儿早饭喝点儿水 别忘了 它只能喝水一点儿别的饮料都不能喝 中午要是它饿了就给他吃一点水果 我明天就回来 表妹，小白很可爱 你一点会喜欢她 谢谢你 我回来以后请你喝咖啡

 

Sorry I am unable to quickly translate this for you and write the pinyin but I'm sure you can figure it out.

 

Basically a routine for looking after a dog

[AlexanderLivius]

Thank you so much!

That makes perfect sense

[naijahusker]

check out these blog posts. I think it will give you some perspective about building listening comprehension. They helped me along the way. I was able to develop my strategies around them.

 

http://www.mezzoguild.com/how-to-improve-foreign-language-comprehension/

http://www.mezzoguild.com/foreign-language-aspect-you-cant-bullshit/

 

I highly recommend this thread:  http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/22456-fluency-proficiency-etcsome-insight-please/#comment-182682

And there is  also  the "Glossika" thread too.

 

 

hope these give you some ideas. cheers