{"id":10561,"date":"2019-11-22T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:58:31","slug":"lesson-159-how-many-children-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/lesson-159-how-many-children-do-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 159 How Many Children Do You Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Péngy\u01d2umen. N\u01d0men h\u01ceo! W\u01d2 shì ML.<\/p>\n

S: W\u01d2 shì Stuart. ML, j\u012bn ti\u0101n w\u01d2men xué shénme?<\/p>\n

M: How a<\/em>bout family members, and we can practice asking the age of grandma, the kids, etc etc.<\/p>\n

S: H\u01ceo zhúyì. All very useful. Fancy not being able to say, "my fifth male cousin on my stepmother’s side"!<\/p>\n

M: Actually, as we mentio<\/em>ned in previous lessons, relations are identified in great detail in Chinese, so there are dozens of different words for relations. In English, if you want to describe a relationship, like uncle, for example, in more detail, you have to say ‘my father’s younger brother’, wheras in Chinese there are different words for all the different kinds of brother, sister, uncle, aunt, or whatever.<\/p>\n

S: It’s very complicated. We’ll just learn the more common terms.<\/p>\n

S: ML and I will now become different people. And we’ll nose into each other’s perso<\/em>nal affairs. Mrs. Deng, are you married? \u9093\u5973\u58eb\uff0c\u60a8\u7ed3\u5a5a\u4e86\u5417 Dèng N\u01dashì, nín jiéh\u016bn le ma?<\/p>\n

M: Shìde.<\/p>\n

S: Have any children? \u6709\u6ca1\u6709\u5b69\u5b50? Y\u01d2u méi y\u01d2u háizi?<\/p>\n

M: I have three children, one son, two daughters. \u6211\u6709\u4e09\u4e2a\u5b69\u5b50\uff0c\u4e00\u4e2a\u513f\u5b50\uff0c\u4e24\u4e2a\u5973\u513f w\u01d2 y\u01d2u s\u0101n ge háizi, yí ge érzi, li\u01ceng ge n\u01daér.<\/p>\n

S: How old are they? \u4ed6\u4eec\u51e0\u5c81\u4e86\uff1f t\u0101men j\u01d0 suìle?<\/p>\n

M: My son is six, \u513f\u5b50\u516d\u5c81 érzi lìu suì. The elder daughter is ten, the younger is eight \u5927\u5973\u513f\u5341\u5c81, \u5c0f\u5973\u513f\u516b\u5c81 dà n\u01da’ér shí suì, xi\u01ceo n\u01da’ér b\u0101 suì.<\/p>\n

S: Now I know, Mrs. Deng has one boy, and two girls. \u73b0\u5728\u6211\u77e5\u9053\uff0c\u9093\u5973\u58eb\u6709\u4e00\u4e2a\u7537\u5b69\u513f\uff0c\u4e24\u4e2a\u5973\u5b69\u513f\u3002Dèng n\u01dashì y\u01d2u yí ge nánháir, li\u01ceng ge n\u01daháir.<\/p>\n

S: H\u01ceo, let’s look at what we said. I said \u9093\u5973\u58eb\uff0c\u60a8\u7ed3\u5a5a\u4e86\u5417 jiéh\u016bn le ma? Are you married? Jiéh\u016bn JIE HUN remember, is ‘marry’ jiéh\u016bn.<\/p>\n

M: Shìde. W\u01d2 jiéh\u016bnle.<\/p>\n

S: \u60a8\u6709\u6ca1\u6709\u5b69\u5b50? Do you have children? \u5b69\u5b50 HAI ZI háizi, ‘child’ or ‘children’.<\/p>\n

M: So everybody say, This child. H\u011bn h\u01ceo. \u8fd9\u4e2a\u5b69\u5b50 zhèi ge háizi.<\/p>\n

S: Now say, Those two children. Méi cuò. \u90a3\u4e24\u4e2a\u5b69\u5b50 nèi li\u01ceng ge háizi.<\/p>\n

M: And if we want to speak to some kids, we say, Children \u5b69\u5b50\u4eec háizi men.<\/p>\n

S: And, Mrs. Deng told me –<\/p>\n

M: \u6211\u6709\u4e09\u4e2a\u5b69\u5b50\uff0c\u4e00\u4e2a\u513f\u5b50\uff0c\u4e24\u4e2a\u5973\u513f w\u01d2 y\u01d2u s\u0101n ge háizi, yí ge érzi, li\u01ceng ge n\u01da’ér.<\/p>\n

S: Yí ge érzi \u513f\u5b50 ER ZI érzi, is ‘son’, érzi.<\/p>\n

M: And \u5973\u513f NV ER n\u01da’ér, is ‘daughter’ n\u01da’ér. Remember how to say ‘girlfriend’? Duì le, n\u01dapéngy\u01d2u, n\u01dapéngy\u01d2u. Well, it’s the same n\u01da, meaning female. So say, I have two daughters. Méi cuò. \u6211\u6709\u4e24\u4e2a\u5973\u513f w\u01d2 y\u01d2u li\u01ceng ge n\u01da’ér.<\/p>\n

S: Now say, He has one son, one daughter.<\/p>\n

M: H\u011bn h\u01ceo. \u4ed6\u6709\u4e00\u4e2a\u513f\u5b50\uff0c\u4e00\u4e2a\u5973\u513f t\u0101 y\u01d2u yí ge érzi, yí ge n\u01da’ér.<\/p>\n

S: Now say, See you next lesson. Duì le. Xià jié kè zàijiàn!<\/p>\n

M: Zàijiàn!
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