This is radio discussion about what happened this week in China. I have been listening to this program since 2003 and have improved my listening comprehension of spoken Chinese, and my understanding of China. For the last year I have been recording the new vocabularly in the broadcasts and am making it available. The site is not available on the mainland and contains words which may be subject to filtering, so I have posted a screen shot rather than a link to the site. 从2003年开始,我每周听了这个节目,学了不少生词和理念,跟大家共享。。。

8:53 2011-2-22 Hosted by MP, with SD and ZWG. China's official inflation figures which show deflation in non-accomodation items are criticised as politically motivated, unreliable, based on secretive research, and symptomatic of a CCP-planned economy, given all the information about rising food prices. Hilary Clinton describes CCP net censorship as a noose -绞索-which will throttle China's economy soon or later. China's milk now contains carconogenic leather hydrolyzed protein - 皮革水解蛋白 - and ten % of China's rice is contaminated with heavy metals eg cadnium - 重金属镉. Xu Xixian has appeared in at the home of Li Ruijia unrepentant for refusing to lead his troops to end the late 80s protest. The sacking of the railways boss followed much online protest about railway corruption and the lack of adequate train transport over new year holiday high season. His sacking is described as "sacrificing a pawn to protect the King" - 丢车保帅 Vocab Zeihan zhuozei - a theif shouting "stop theif!"
program date mp3 new vocab discussion points screen shot
18/2/2011 mp3-18-02-2011 绞索,皮革水解蛋白,重金属镉 reliability of official inflation figues, net censorship, food safety;  
11 Feb 2011 mp3-011-02-2011   The fall of Mubarak, the interest rate rise, insecure Chinese immigrating to the US, CCP internal democracy  
04 feb 2011 mp3-04-02-2011 2011-01-04.php   screenshot-mp3-04-02-2011
         

Feb 4th, 2011

chinese pinyin english
慰问 wèi wèn express sympathy; extend one's regards; convey greetings
锦上添花 jǐn shàng tiān huā  to stick a flower in a brocade; to do something unnecessary
雪中送炭 xuě zhōng sòng tàn bring coal when it's snowing; bring help where it is really needed
     
     
     
     
     
     

screen shot for program

 

a week in China