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Lesson 038 How Much Is It for Five Cups of Tea?

  M: Da jia hao! Welcome to LCN! Pengyoumen, 你们知道我是谁吗，nimen zhidao wo shi shei ma?
S: Dui le, ta shi Manli. And I'm her colleague, 我是她的同事, wo shi ta de tongshi. Wo jiao Stuart.
M: Of course, we know that you know who we are. 我们知道你们知道我们是谁. Just practicing!
S: And what about your homework, 你们的功课, nimen de gongke, your homework? We had two questions. 两个问题, liang ge wenti.
M: 第一个问题。 First question. 一杯茶是四块钱, yi bei cha shi si kuai qian. 五杯茶是多少钱，五杯茶是多少钱？and the answer is, Stuart?
S: Wo xiang yi xiang. Let me think. Yi bei si kuai qian. Wu bei shi duo shao qian? Wo zhidao! Wu bei shi san shi kuai, thirty kuai, san shi kuai.
M: 错了, wrong, cuo le! Yi bei shi si kuai, 所以，therefore, suo yi, liang bei shi ba kuai, san bei shi shi er kuai, si bei shi shi liu kuai, wu bei shi …
S: er shi kuai, twenty kuai, er shi kuai. Wo bu congming.
M: Never mind. 第二个问题。Second question: Yi bei kafei shi wu kuai qian. Yi bei kele shi liu kuai qian. 三杯咖啡和三杯可乐是多少? San bei kafei he san bei kele shi duo shao qian? Try again, Stuart.
S: Ok. Wo xiang yi xiang. Yi bei kafei wu kuai, san bei shi shi wu kuai. Yi bei kele shi liu kuai. San bei shi shi ba kuai. 一共，yi gong, shi wu jia shi ba shi san shi san. Thirty three kuai! Yi gong shi san shi san kuai.
M: Dui le. Stuart, 你真聪明! You're truly clever! Ne zhen congming!
S: Wo zhidao.
S: Wow, that was a lot of Chinese; that's to get you thinking in Chinese. Before finishing, let's look at some of the new things.
M: 第一个问题。 First question. Di yi ge wenti.. First, di yi. The di is DI di, 4th tone. The yi is the yi er san of one, two, three. So how do we say ‘second'? Dui le, di er, di er.
S: And, ‘the third glass of beer'…. Dui le. 第三杯啤酒, di san bei pijiu.
M: And ‘the second question'? …. Dui le, 第二个问题, di er ge wenti.
S: Wo xiang yi xiang. I'll think about it. Wo xiang yi xiang.
M: Lastly, 一共，altogether, in total, yi gong. YI GONG yi gong. Altogether, three kuai. Yi gong, san kuai. Yi gong san kuai.
S: Now your gongke, homework.
M: Di yi ge wenti. 一杯可乐是三块五毛, san kuai wu mao. 五杯, wu bei,是多少钱?
S: Di er ge wenti. 一杯茶是四块四毛，si kuai si mao. 六杯, liu bei cha shi duo shao qian.
M: Answers next time. Zaijian.

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State Organs of PRC

全国人民代表大会National People’s Congress (NPC) 主席团Presidium 常务委员会Standing Committee –办公厅General Office –秘书处Secretariat –代表资格审查委员会Credentials Committee –提案审查委员会Motions Examination Committee –民族委员会Ethnic Affairs Committee –法律委员会Law Committee

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Never make these mistakes in Chinese 44

Foreigners often make some strange mistakes in Chinese when they study the most difficult language— —Chinese. We try to analyze typical sentences to correct these errors.
         
Nǐ shì cónɡ nǎ dìfɑnɡ lái de?
False:  你是从哪地方来的？
          Nǐ shì cónɡ nǎɡè dìfɑnɡ lái de?
True:  你是从哪个地方来的？

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Chinese language vocabulary 汉语词汇 Swear Words in Chinese

Normally, we try to keep it pretty PG around here, but the readers have spoken, and people want to learn how to say  bad words  (坏 话 – huàihuà) in Chinese. That should come as no surprise, since I’m sure most of us would admit that we always seek out the profanity when studying a language.  Especially here in China, when your standing as a 老外 (foreigner) always leaves you prone to being ripped off and taken advantage of, it’s nice to be equipped with a few insults to throw back to show that you’re not fresh off the boat, and you’re not messing around!

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