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Mugi -

I'm afraid I'm with tanhql - it is clearly 钟 zhong1.
It omission in the text is just an oversight. You can say it either with or without the 钟.
The meaning doesn't change whatsoever.

What I find more of a problem, is that the woman 文龙 is talking to changes mid conversation!!
You would have thought they could have at least dressed her in the same clothes!



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OneEye -



Quote:

I'm afraid I'm with tanhql - it is clearly 钟 zhong1.
It omission in the text is just an oversight. You can say it either with or without the 钟.
The meaning doesn't change whatsoever.

I went back and listened some more, and I'm hearing the 'zh' now. I think it's just not clearly
enunciated like the way she usually speaks, and that I didn't see it in the text and so wasn't
expecting it.



Quote:

What I find more of a problem, is that the woman 文龙 is talking to changes mid conversation!!
You would have thought they could have at least dressed her in the same clothes!

Yeah, there are some things like that in the videos that make me wonder if they had any budget at
all, but the quality of the material makes me willing to overlook it.










kelly_web -

here ，几点钟见面？or几点能见面？are ok
oral chinese , 几点能见面 is used more than 几点钟见面










JimmySeal -

I don't think it sounds like zhong at all. There is no fricative quality to it.

Could be neng2. But then again I'm just a beginner too.










imron -

If you listen to the recording, this word is pretty clearly zhōng, it's just that in normal
speech, you don't always enunciate every single part of the word so exactly. For example, compare
with a native English speaker saying things like "I dunno", or "I'm gonna". In fluid speech
certain things get glossed over. As another example, it's quite common (at least in more northern
regions) to hear people say 多少钱 as duōhao qián leaving out the 'sh' part, simply because
it's easier to do this and because explicity enunciating every syllable would sound awkward.










OneEye -

imron, I think that's what is happening. I still can't make myself hear it as zhōng without some
effort, but I think it is because I'm so used to hearing perfectly articulated Mandarin. But they
seem to be speeding up the speech to a more natural level as the course goes on, so I'm sure in a
month or two I'll go back and I'll know it's zhōng because I'll be used to quicker speech.












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