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You ask, we answer. Welcome to Qingwen. This is Clay. And I'm Amber. How are we doing, gang? Good. We've settled down from last week a little. A little bit. Tone it down a bit. We had fun last week. We did, but hey, we can bring it up a notch. We can always bring it up a little bit. So on last week's episode, we did the yo-yo episode. Yo-yo ma. Which is basically adding two attributes to one thing, one item.

And so one of our listeners actually said, he was commenting how much he enjoyed the podcast. And he said, that's the only way to learn if you can laugh and you can study. At the same time. At the same time. So he tried to use the yo sentence. Like, you xue, you xiao. Clay, it's not the you, it's the yo-yo sentence. I'm a yo-yo. So, Connie... Apparently, that is not the correct way to say. So how would you want to say, when I study, I want to laugh?

一边学,一边笑。 So what's the difference here between the 又 sentence and the 一边 sentence? 一般来说,两个动作同时发生,我们用 一边一边。 So generally, when there's two actions that are taking place at the same time,

Then we use 一边一边. And the 又有呢? And the 又有. So to use the 又, you would say like somebody is pretty and beautiful. 又漂亮又美, right? But if you want to use this 一边... 一边, it's more like doing something while doing something. So verb while verb. So if you watch TV while you eat, how would you say that, Connie? 一边看电视,一边吃饭

Now in that case, could you say 又看电视又吃饭? No, it sounds weird. No, it doesn't work. So this is more like an action that's happening in the present time, right Connie? So Clay, what are some things that you do at the same time? There's a lot of things I try to do at the same time. Isn't there something like my dad used to say, can you pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time? Do you ever try doing that? It's hard. It's hard. See, you're rubbing your head. Okay, how about...

How would I say pat? I'm patting my head and rubbing my stomach at the same time. Connie, oh, this is like high-level Chinese. This is kind of tough, but how do you do it? How do you say that, Connie? Now, this is very useful language, everyone. Why don't you go around asking all your Chinese friends to try it? You know, it could be a great conversation starter. Can you pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time?

Can I try that, Connie? Like every kid in the West, they try to do this very difficult thing. In China, does it happen? Okay, so we found something that's culturally ours. How cool. We can introduce Western culture to them with this. This could be a great icebreaker. So what's something that you... E-bien, e-bien. Oh, let me think now. I bet you do something every day. Oh, I know, I know, I know. How about this one? Connie, how would you say it?

I have this great ability that I can chat on MSN and work at the same time. I digress. We all have that. We all have that ability. I think Connie has it too. I've noticed. When I looked around the office, I think everyone has that ability. So it's not as hard as the patting your head and rubbing your stomach one. I think everyone has the ability to use it. I can't say they all have the ability to do it and work at the same time. Me and Connie have the talent. It's amazing.

Okay, good. So that's a really useful one. Well, I don't know about you, but if I go to the gym, if I don't have my iPod... If you go? If I go. It's miserable. So, can I say, 一边主重,一边听音乐? 可以! So when I lift weights, I also listen to my music. Right, so that sentence is break it down. That means to lift weights. And...

How would you say listen to your iPod, Connie? Do they have a word for iPod in Chinese? Can I guess? iPod, of course. Maybe for some iPod, is it? iPod. I always catch you riding your bike and listening to your iPod. That's true. to my attention, it might be dangerous. But actually, I think it's safer that way. Because I don't know, I can block out the road rage. So how would you say that, Connie? How would you say Amber rides her bike and she listens to her iPod?

Okay, wait, I know. I know something that Clay does while he rides his bike. What do I do? I've been known to do that. Is that right, Connie? How do you say, 看女儿的屁股? I almost ran into ongoing traffic a couple days ago. If anyone wants to know, pigu means bum. Yeah, so 一边一边 can be dangerous. So Connie, can I say 一边一边一边, can I do three different things? 可以。 Really? If not, I'm going to try. ipad 一边看帅哥

There's no shy goods. That sentence is null and void. There's no shy goods. That's never happened to you while you're riding your bike and listening to your iPod. I've been looking, but I can't find any. Oh my goodness. Yes, it is. It's very distracting. Especially when you can't find any. What about Connie? Do you do two things at the same time? I bet you can. You're pretty like...

一边走路,一边吃早饭. You eat while you walk? 对,很不好. It's kind of good though. It kind of passes the time for the walk from the subway down to Chinese pod. Amber, there's quite a few times I've caught you while in mid-sentence you're kind of daydreaming. Yeah. Connie, how can I say Amber doesn't listen? Well, I'm pretending to listen. Yeah, she pretends to listen. At least I'm that polite.

How can I say that Amber is pretending to listen when I'm talking to her? At the same time, it's daydreaming. Oh, I love that word. Daydream. That is a mouthful. remember that phrase it'll come in handy okay yeah well it's true sometimes i am because sometimes you're boring no i'm just kidding ouch you know what amber not on air i mean just leave our problems out of the recording studio

So remember, sometimes when you come up with qingwen ideas, I 一边点头, 一边不同意. Yeah, I noticed. Pretend that you're, what? Okay, how do you translate? Let's translate that. Can you say this sentence again? 一边点头 So it's like Clay's nodding his head and disagreeing at the same time. In my head, I'm disagreeing. Yes, he's not as affable as he comes across on air, everyone. I guess we did to each other, Amber. Okay, Connie, what's something else you do at the same time? Do you really?

I want to come over in here. Can you give us a little sample of your... Wait a minute, wait a minute. I think there's a shower downstairs next to that toilet. That one we put the picture of last time. Oh, maybe not. La la la. That's it? That's how you sing in the shower? Sing some Zhou Jie Lun or something. Sing some Chinese classical traditional song. 两只老虎,两只老虎,跑得快,跑得快! Wow, great voice. And I'm sure with the acoustics of the shower, it would sound even better.

I've noticed something about men and I'm not getting a dig at Clay right now. I'm sure you're not like this. No, you're not like this at all. But I have noticed that men, I think it's a bit of a cliche, but it's true. That's why it's a cliche is that men cannot. Welcome back to another installment of. ChinesePod trivia. And the question for you is, for what test does ChinesePod offer preparation services for? Is it A. The polygraph. B. The colonoscopy.

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watch tv at the same time as listen to their girlfriends like you know for example girls you go to a pub and then the tv's on behind you and like you're having this deep intimate conversation but then the guy's eyes are wandering up to the tv so connie can you use it negative say you're actually right about this we can't i think this is turning into a rant

That was quite a long explanation. Okay, Connie, so how can you say men cannot watch TV at the same time as listen to their girlfriends? Is it true, Clay? It is definitely true. Absolutely true. Yes. Absolutely. We try to pretend, but we're just not as good as you girls. You don't pretend very well at all. No. It's too hard. It's that distracted look as you're not looking at her eyes. The game's on. What are you supposed to do?

That's good to know you can throw a negative in front of there as well. Yeah, that's right. So this EBN sentence pattern, it was never so interesting as it was right now. Every textbook has it, actually. I've seen it around. I want to say this was level like...

Maybe second semester. High frequency, pretty easy. So hopefully we gave a couple sentences for you guys to understand. So throw some on the boards for us. Give some comments. I want to see a quadruple EBN. Yes, let's go for the quadruple and we will crown you the ultra master. What are we going to give someone if they can do it? You'd be like king of the universe EPN master. All right, if you can get four EPNs, you get an autographed picture of Amber.

How about that? And Connie. Come on now. They don't want that. I think they do. I know. They'll get an audio recording of Connie singing in the shower. All right. That's a deal. Okay. It's a deal. If you really want that, you can have it. Okay. So we'll see you next time on Jingwen. Later. As usual, ChinesePod provides an extensive selection of learning materials for this lesson on its website.

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