Mini-Listening Lesson

[roddy]

Messing around with sound recording on my mobile last night, here's a 100% authentic, right-out-of-the-hutong, recording with no-effort-encurred questions by yours truly.

The recording is .amr format. You should be able to open this in quicktime or realplayer.

1) Does the caller want to

a) Arrange a tour to Xinjiang

B) Have her air-conditioning fixed

c) order food

d) Hang on, let me read the following questions and then answer this one

2) Is the dish mentioned

a) one yuan a piece

B) cut up into little bits

c) mouldy

3) How many beef kebabs are ordered

a) 10

B) 20

c) none

4) The caller requests the food to be served on / in

a) a bed of lettuce

B) takeaway food boxes

c) a plate

The correct answers are on the next page - don't click through until you are sure you're right

Recording.amr

[Ferno]

c (), b, c, b ? :o

man this is far cry from those nice Pimsleur voices :o lots of -Rs...

[roddy]

were you listening to the correct attachment, I had the wrong one there for a while. You might want to try again. Edit: And how did you manage to answer four questions on the basis of the incorrect audio

[Ferno]

yeah i listened to the wrong one :o

in that case: c, b, a, c

[L-F-J]

Fast speaking. I have to get used to that. But I came up with the same answers and Ferno's last post. Probably because I knew the questions so I knew what to listen for but if I didn't know the questions before hand and couldn't listen back, then I'd probably miss the second question.

[HashiriKata]

And how did you manage to answer four questions on the basis of the incorrect audio

I know many people can do this, and they even answer correctly

[Ferno]

And how did you manage to answer four questions on the basis of the incorrect audio

1. c - because you gave it away 2. b - because I thought I heard "chopsticks" and chopsticks can be used to pick up little pieces 3. c - because I didn't hear "kebab" 4. b - because it sounded like a takeaway place :o

[L-F-J]

Nevermind, you were responding to how you got your answers based on the incorrect file... irrelevant post. lol

[roddy]

in that case: c, b, a, c

I came up with the same answers

75%. Listen again

[randall_flagg]

me thinks its 20, not 10.

this is fun, roddy! give us moooooore!

[conrad]

caac?

yeah this is a load of fun more please

if someone has the ablity a written dialogue would be cool to read.

edit to say that i think she orders two differnt types of meat,, one is on a stick one isnt

[roddy]

All I'll say is that so far nobody has got all 4 questions correct. Oh, and that I'm a sneaky %$@#%

I would have done a transcript, but my laptop's sound chipset has decided to take an extended holiday and I'm not going to faff around typing with one hand while repeatedly listening to the audio on my mobile. Would be cool if someone can do one though.

[conrad]

the third question is misleading..

[randall_flagg]

ccac

when i said that she says "10" earlier, i also meant to say: except for that, i have what everybody else has. so my order is ccac. hope its right. gosh, what excitement!

[semantic nuance]

The transcript:

你想訂這家餐廳是嗎? 喂, 你好是xin4 xiang1餐廳吧!

eh 我想要那個囊包肉.eh 你們那邊囊包肉的那個囊是不是一塊兒一塊兒的那種?

我要囊包肉, 再要十個羊肉串, 然後送到sha1 lou4....

十個羊肉串...嗯...不要給我們放在飯盒裡邊, 我們用盤子好嗎?

eh, 麻煩你了, eh, 送來sha1 lou4 好吧, 謝謝 !嗯! 再見!

ps1//don't know how to type eh in chinese. As for pinyin, because i don't know the words for its resturant name and place. They can be various words with the same pronunciation.

ps2//I've redrafted it, wondering if I still missed something there.

Hope it helps!

[roddy]

the third question is misleading..

At last, someone takes the time to read the questions carefully instead of just trying to get the answers

ccac

Not even in Beijing do they deliberately order mouldy food . . .

Here's a quick follow up.

What has not been delivered

a) the accounts

B) chopsticks

c) a scooter

Recording.amr

[L-F-J]

CBCC

[roddy]

CBCC

And we have a winner!

(Although I suspect Conrad was there first)

BTW, Semantic's transcript is good but there's room for improvement. Anyone want to redraft it? Pictures of the actual food here and here

[L-F-J]

Woohoo!

[randall_flagg]

Whoops! Don't know what happened there. Why would I say moldy? I guess my only excuse is that the questions were on a differnt page and I was too darn lazy too flip the pages and tried to do it from memory. Nope, it ain't moldy.