{"id":381,"date":"2010-05-06T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T05:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2010-05-06T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T07:33:16","slug":"advanced-chinese-listening-by-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/advanced-chinese-listening-by-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Chinese Listening by American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we say this is good for advanced Chinese learners, this is great for Chinese beginners and up as well as English learners.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E7%99%BD%E6%B4%81\">\u767d\u6d01<\/a> taught you how to say sneakers in British English (i.e. trainers), and in Chinese ( <a href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/chinesetools\/matchpinyin2.php?text=%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E9%9E%8B&#038;e=sneakers%20or%20trainers\">\u8fd0\u52a8\u978b yun4 dong4 xie2<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/dO5Lg7ajdQ8\/hqdefault.jpg)\"  width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dO5Lg7ajdQ8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dO5Lg7ajdQ8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shopping = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%80%9B%E8%A1%97\">\u901b\u8857<\/a><br \/>\nhonk = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%8C%89%E5%96%87%E5%8F%AD\">\u6309\u5587\u53ed<\/a><br \/>\nto get lost = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%BF%B7%E8%B7%AF%E4%BA%86\">\u8ff7\u8def\u4e86<\/a><br \/>\nreally interesting\/fun = <a href=http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/chinesetools\/matchpinyin2.php?text=\u771f\u662f\u6709\u610f\u601d>\u771f\u662f\u6709\u610f\u601d<\/a><br \/>\nmarket (selling vegetables and meat) = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%8F%9C%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4\">\u83dc\u5e02\u5834<\/a><br \/>\negg plant = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%8C%84%E5%AD%90\">\u8304\u5b50<\/a><br \/>\negg = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%B8%A1%E8%9B%8B\">\u9e21\u86cb<\/a><br \/>\nChinese idiom <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E5%A4%B4%E4%B8%A4%E4%B8%AA%E5%A4%A7\">\u4e00\u4e2a\u5934\u4e24\u4e2a\u5927<\/a> it means &#8220;to be in trouble or difficulty&#8221;<br \/>\nzucchini \/ courgette = <a href=http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/chinesetools\/matchpinyin2.php?text=\u5c0f\u80e1\u74dc\u610f\u5927\u5229\u9ec4\u74dc>\u5c0f\u80e1\u74dc; \u610f\u5927\u5229\u9ec4\u74dc<\/a> or <a href=http:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/zh-cn\/%E8%A5%BF%E8%91%AB%E8%8A%A6>\u897f\u846b\u82a6<\/a><br \/>\nhandsome boy\/man = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%B8%85%E5%93%A5\">\u5e05\u54e5<\/a><br \/>\npants \/trousers = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%95%BF%E8%A3%A4\">\u957f\u88e4<\/a><br \/>\npanties or Underpants \/pants or snickers = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%86%85%E8%A3%A4\">\u5185\u88e4<\/a>   ( inner pants = underwear)<br \/>\nembarrassing = <a href=http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/chinesetools\/matchpinyin2.php?text=\u7f9e\u6b7b\u4eba\u4e86>\u7f9e\u6b7b\u4eba\u4e86<\/a><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to live = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E4%B8%8D%E6%83%B3%E6%B4%BB%E4%BA%86%E3%80%82\">\u4e0d\u60f3\u6d3b\u4e86\u3002<\/a><br \/>\nWhen Americans say &#8220;My God!&#8221;, we Chinese would say &#8220;<a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E5%A6%88%E5%91%80\">\u5988\u5440<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we say this is good for advanced Chinese learners, this is great for Chinese beginners and up as well as English learners. In this video, <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E7%99%BD%E6%B4%81\">\u767d\u6d01<\/a> taught you how to say sneakers in British English (i.e. trainers), and in Chinese ( <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E9%9E%8B\">\u8fd0\u52a8\u978b<\/a> yun4 dong4 xie2 ) Shopping = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E9%80%9B%E8%A1%97\">\u901b\u8857<\/a> honk = <a title=\"Look up in ChineseBay Cantonese and Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chinesebay.com\/py\/%E6%8C%89%E5%96%87%E5%8F%AD\">\u6309\u5587\u53ed<\/a> to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98,18,4],"tags":[68,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesebay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}