Mini-Listening Lesson

[Quest]

How did you record other ppl's telephone convs? walkie talkie?

[roddy]

Record function on my mobile phone. However, I also have a little memo recorder thing which can fit in-line with phone cables, so with a bit of luck the next one will be clearer. I just need to find a public telephone where I can install it without anyone noticing. I might open up my own 话吧 and create a database of people talking to their mums in different 方言

Anyone want to take any guesses on where the speakers are from?

[Ncao]

Roddy, do you work for the Chinese government? Recording people's telephone conversations:nono .

[roddy]

Well, you know, freelancing . . . got to take the work where you can get it . . . can't really worry about the moral issues

Nah, I know both the speakers, and they know what's going on - one's actually a member on here. And I won't really be tapping anyone's phones.

Roddy

[Quest]

Nah, I know both the speakers, and they know what's going on - one's actually a member on here.

Ok, so you are not the telephone boy at the resturaunt.

Which member is it? The girl's voice is so o爹.....

[L-F-J]

Nice cover.

[badatpool]

Thanks, I thought my voice sounds rude...

I didn’t know Roddy was recording at that moment, if I had known it, I would have made my voice more 嗲...But I'm entirely happy for him to put my voice on here and contribute to the great 对外汉语教学事业

[semantic nuance]

Nice to have met your voice, batapool. Did I miss any words in the redrafted transcript? Can anyone check it for me? An off-topic question: how do you type 'ei' in Chinese in the conversations?

[binbin]

What's "sha1 lou4"?

These are great, can we have more?

[roddy]

沙漏, name of the cafe. I'm certainly hoping to get some more done, but for some reason I can't just go around recording strangers conversations

[Gestalt]

Roddy, this is great. I can't understand more than about 5% first time around at this sort of speed, but it's fun trying.

I still like the idea of bugging a public telephone!

[roddy]

So do I, but I think I need a government job to get away with that . . .

First line of Semantic's transcription

你想訂這家餐廳是嗎? 喂, 你好是xin4 xiang1餐廳吧!

I'm 99% sure this is

你好是新疆餐廳吗？喂, 你好是新疆餐廳吧!

Although the first sentence is very indistinct. The one percent of doubt is that the restaurant might be called the 新墙 or something

你們那邊囊包肉的那個囊是不是一塊兒一塊兒的那種

I can't hear the 的

Only other thing is that the 串 definitely 带 an 儿

Thanks for the transcription, appreciated.

With a bit of luck I should have more (legitimately acquired) material for you soon.

[badatpool]

I'm 99% sure this is

Quote:

你好是新疆餐廳吗？喂, 你好是新疆餐廳吧!

I’m 100% sure It’s nin您 but not ni你, since using nin is very common in Beijing hua, especially to strangers.

An off-topic question: how do you type 'ei' in Chinese in the conversations?

欸，by the way, nang2 should be 馕

[bokane]

What a stunning example of situational dialogues delivered in clear, standard Mandarin. Brilliant work, Roddy. Badatpool, your voice is absolutely gorgeous. I expect to be hearing from you on the next 超级女声. Bravo.

[roddy]

Well Bokane, if you like the voice you might want to put a face to it. Perhaps you'd be interested in sponsoring a series of video lessons?

As for 正事, the bugging equipment has been passed on to our agent in the field and we're hoping to have it installed in a family home only a few blocks from Zhongnanhai shortly. Should anything go wrong, I'll just have to hope the labor camp has internet access . . .

[Ferno]

hey Quest and badatpool... "The girl's voice is so o爹....." "I would have made my voice more 嗲" what is this secret code?? :o

[roddy]

嗲, dia3. Coy, childish. Quest presumably had to add the o to 爹 because he didn't know the Mandarin pronunciation. That's a completely different topic though.

My laptop's messing me around at the moment. It appeared the motherboard was fried this morning, but it's now working again AND the soundcard has come back (jumped out of my skin when I got the Windows woosh at full and unexpected volume). Which means it'll be easier for me to work with these files if I ever get them.

[Quest]

嗲, dia3. Coy, childish. Quest presumably had to add the o to 爹 because he didn't know the Mandarin pronunciation. That's a completely different topic though.

That's a good example of when "pronouce by association" did not work. 爹 and 嗲 are De1 and De2 in Cantonese.