You can download the word doc here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/betteratenglish/customer_right.doc

It is password protected and read only. But you can still open the file and print it. If you want to reformat the text your own way for printing, just open the document, do ctrl+a to copy all the text, then create a new document and do ctrl+v to paste in the text.

Thanks for sending me out these audios and transcripts links.

I’m trying to base my learning on listening conversational English. I record your audios in my mp3 player and print out the transcripts because I don’t got my own computer, and that’s why I’m sending you out this message, the thing is, that I haven’t been able to copy into word your transcription CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT, so would you please send me a copy or something?
Thanks,
Best regards.

I agree with you, having to try to teach someone who has no desire to learn is like hell on earth. Even worse, nowadays teachers are so brainwashed into the “reflective practitioner, learner-centered” ideology that it can be really hard not to blame yourself and feel like a total failure for not being able to “inspire” or “reach” a particular student. Some students just plain SUCK, but as a “learner-centered, reflective practitioner” you’re not allowed to say that.

You can see you pressed one of my hot buttons!

Anyway, thanks for your comment!

After listening to this podcast I am so glad that I haven´t had such horrible experiences so far. I once had a part-time job (lasted for about 5 months), I helped my mother´s friend whose daughter was hopeless at learning English, so I was asked to help out, she was like seven years old and didn´t listen to anyone, didn´t follow advice, nothing, so I quit…couldn´t stand it (don´t get me wrong, I like kids, just now particularly this one)

Recently I changed the way our podcast feed is generated, and now I *think* it should be possible to get the transcript into the mp3 so that you can read on your iPod. I really just need to figure out which of the id3 tags I should past it into. Hopefully I’ll have it figured out by the next episode — you are not the only one who has asked me for this feature, and it’s been frustrating to not be able to provide it. Wish me luck!

Greetings
Tullio

Kristof, thanks! Glad you like the new site. I’ll be launching some companions sites soon, and they’ll all have a uniform “flavor.” It makes everything easier to manage. Sorry to say I did have to resort to a table for the footer to keep everything in place across browsers. I’m sure there is a workaround somewhere, but WTF! Fixing it in two minutes was more appealing to me than spending hours diddling around with browser hacks.

Tomas, thanks for your comment! It’s no problem to post a Word (or Open Office) doc, because that’s where I write the drafts. The real problem is converting everything to html/css (that fits the website template) AFTER I’ve already done it once in Word. The pdf gets generated directly from Word or Open Office, so that’s a dawdle as well. And btw, I’m not sure what pic you mean, as there was no pic in this episode. I sure hope you’re not referring to my beautiful FEZ!

Transcripts in Microsoft Word documents would be fine. It’s what most people use anyway, I guess. Besides, They’re better than PDF documents in that they’re more easily edited for appearances ….at least for me.

BTW, that convo pic would’ve been better in its original without getting edited

Great job on the revamping of B@E! I absolutely love it (and that means a lot coming from my mouth).

@Taz: it’s not supposed to open in a new browser window That’s called “hijacking the browser” so Lori’s right on the spot there

Web geek signing off …

*bzz* forgot: great convo once again, Lori!

Greetz Taz

As for getting Word docs to open directly in your browser, I think there are plugins you can install that will let you do that. The same goes for PDFs. But it all depends on which browser you have and how you configure it.

I have had some trouble getting to the comment section, but that might be my own fault…I like to read along while listening to the Podcast so I am fine with the changes. I just bugs me that the word file doesn’t automaticaly opens in a new screen. But that’s just me

Greetz Taz