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Lesson 032 Revision of Going to the Bar

 M: 朋友们,你们好! 我是曼丽.
S: Wo shi Stuart. No time to waste!
M: Stuart, are you happy today? 你今天高兴吗? Ni jintian gaoxing ma?
S: 今天我非常高兴. Jin tian wo feichang gaoxing.
M: 为什么. Wei shenme?
S: 因为Because, yinwei, we’re going to the bar, see a few friends. You at home, try to pick out the words for ‘bar’ and ‘a few’. 因为我们要去酒吧, 看几个朋友.
M: Yinwei women yao qu jiuba, kan ji ge pengyou.
S: ‘Bar’, and ‘a few’. Get them? Dui le. ‘Bar’ is jiuba, JIU BA, jiuba. Very important word.
M: jiuba, say it again, jiuba. Out of interest, 酒 jiu means alcoholic drinks, and the ba comes from the English word ‘bar’. And how about ‘a few’? Listen:
S: See a few friends. Kan ji ge pengyou.
M: Right! Ji ge, JI GE, ji ge, a few. A few friends, ji ge peng you.
S: 好,现在我们去酒吧, now let’s go to the bar. xianzai women qu jiuba.
M: We’ll take the lift. 我们坐电梯. Women zuo dianti.
S: I prefer ‘electric ladder’! Hao, women zuo dianti.
M: The lift’s arrived. 电梯来了. Dianti lai le.
S: 请进.Qing jin.
M: Xiexie.
S: What floor is the bar on? 酒吧在几层? Jiuba zai ji ceng?
M: 酒吧在二层. Jiuba zai er ceng.
S: 好,二层. Er ceng.
M: we’ve arrived. 到了, dao le.
S: Ladies first. 请,qing.
M: Xiexie.
S: And a quick explanation before we have a drink. Remember my room is on the 14th floor, shi si lou. Lou can mean ‘floor’ or ‘storey’.
M: And so can 层, ceng CENG ceng.
S: What floor is the bar on? Jiuba zai ji ceng?
M: Jiuba zai ji ceng.
S: 几JI ji, can mean ‘a few’, as in ‘ji ge peng you’, and sometimes it means ‘how many’, as in ‘ji ceng?’ ‘how many floors?’, or, in this case, ‘what floor’. Jiuba zai ji ceng?
M: zai er ceng.
S: 一 二, 二层. Second floor.
M: To finish, let’s say all the Chinese again. We’ll repeat everything.
S: Repeat with us, in a loud voice.
M: 你今天高兴吗? Ni jintian gaoxing ma?
S: 今天我非常高兴. Jin tian wo feichang gaoxing.
M: 为什么. Wei shenme?
S: 因为我们要去酒吧, Yinwei women yao qu jiuba. 看几个朋友, kan ji ge pengyou.
M: 我们坐电梯. Women zuo dianti.
S: 电梯来了. Dianti lai le. 请进.Qing jin.
M: Xiexie.
S: 酒吧在几层? Jiuba zai ji ceng?
M: 酒吧在二层. Jiuba zai er ceng.
S: 好,二层. Er ceng.
M: 到了, dao le.
S: Ladies first. 请,qing.
M: Xiexie.
S: Pengyoumen, see you in the bar tomorrow. Ming tian jian.

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Lesson 026 We’ll Go to Your Room.

  M: Da jia hao! Huanying dao Learn Chinese Now. Wo shi ML.
S: Wo shi Stuart. Before women kaishi, don’t forget to repeat everything with us.
M: At the end of our last lesson, Stuart just needed his key, tā de yàoshi.
S: Now I have my key. Xiànzài wǒ yǒu wǒ de yàoshi.
M: So now we’ll go to your room. Xianzai women qu nide fangjian. Xianzai women qu nide fangjian.
S: Where’s the lift? 电梯在哪儿？Diàntī zài nǎr?
M: 电梯在那儿。Diàntī zài nàr。
S: You get in first, ML. ML, 你先进，ni xian jin.
M: 不，bu! 你先进。
S: 别客气，请,qing.
M: 好吧，xiexie.
S: What floor? 几楼? Ji lou?
M: 14th floor. Shí sì lóu. shí sì lóu.
S: Hao, women qu shisi lou. Hao, women qu shisi lou.
M: And we’ll practice the new stuff on the way up.
S: Ok, we are back again. I’m feeling lazy, where’s the lift? Dianti zai nar?
M: Dianti zai nar. Dian DIAN dian, means electric, like in ‘dianhua’, ‘electric words’, or ‘telephone’. Ti TI ti, is ‘ladder’, or ‘staircase’.
S: So guess what dianti means. Dui le. ‘Lift’ or ‘elevator’, dianti.
M: The lift is there. Diantizai nar, dianti zai nar.
S: Ever the gentleman, I said. ML, 妳先进.
M: ni xian jin qu. Xian XIAN xian, means ‘first’ or ‘before’. Jin JIN jin, 4th tone, here means ‘to enter’. Ni xian jin. You get in first.
S: Ni xian jin. Also polite, ML replied,
M: 不，你先进。But Stuart insisted.
S: Qing. Please.
M: We often say qing, when offering to let someone on the bus first, or go through the door first, that type of situation.
S: And I asked, ‘what floor?’ Ji lou. You often hear nice people ask you this in the lift, and you can ask them if they can’t reach the buttons.
M: ji lou? Ji JI ji, means ‘how many?’. Lou LOU lou, means ‘storey’, ‘floor’. Ji lou? What floor? Ji lou?
S: shi si lou, 14th floor, shi si lou.
M: The dialogue again. 现在我们去你的房间. Xianzai women qu nide fangjian.
S: 电梯在哪儿? Dianti zai nar?
M: 电梯在那儿. Dianti zai nàr.
S: ML, 妳先进, ni xian jin.
M: bù,nǐ xiān jìn.
S: Qing.
M: xiexie.
S: 几楼? Ji lou?
M: Shí sì lóu. shí sì lóu.
S: 好，我们去十四楼. Hao, women qu shisi lou.
M: And up we go! 我们上去. Women shang qu.
S: Great! 我们到了十四楼. Wǒmen dào le shí sì lóu. And here is my room, 我的房间在这儿。我开门，I’ll open the door. ML, qǐng.
M: xiexie.
S: Qing. I use it all the time.
M: So it’s a good time to 下课, xia ke.
S: Wo tong yi. Women xia ke. Zai jian.

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