{"id":16220,"date":"2019-11-06T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/teaching-examination\/lesson-001-greetings-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T13:23:09","slug":"lesson-001-greetings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/lesson-001-greetings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 001 Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \t<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/res.hjfile.cn\/pt\/vendor\/hjplayer.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>HJPlayer.init(\"hjptype=song&player=7&file=https:\/\/f1.w.hjfile.cn\/doc\/201110\/lesson00182.mp3&caption=false&lrc=&_top=0&backColor=A8E6FD&frontColor=ffffff&autoplay=false&showDownload=true&width=200&height=20\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>  \tY: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio, a brand new Chinese learning program on China Radio International. I&rsquo;m Yajie.<br \/>  \tCam: Hi, everyone, I&rsquo;m Cam. This daily show will teach Chinese at the elementary level, which is very appropriate, considering I&rsquo;m just starting to learn myself! Hi Yajie, may I have the honour of suggesting our first topic?<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: Sorry&hellip; I was kidding. I guess it&rsquo;s too soon for that! In fact, the first thing I wanna learn is all about greetings. How to say hello?<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: I think it is also where most foreigners want to start learning Chinese. Now let&rsquo;s check Key words of the day!<\/p>\n<p>  \t***************** Key words of the day<br \/>  \tToday we&rsquo;ll learn a few of popular expressions of greeting. \u4f60\u597d, Cam\u3002\u4f60\u597d, ..\u3002\u60a8\u597d\uff0cDirector. \u4f60\u597d\u3002Hi, Cam, \u4f60\u597d\u5417\uff1f\u6211\u5f88\u597d\u3002\u8c22\u8c22\uff01All in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.&nbsp;<br \/>  \t*************<br \/>  \tY: In Chinese there are several different ways to say hello. The most popular expression is \u4f60\u597d\u3002It means &lsquo;hi&rsquo; or &lsquo;hello&rsquo; and can be used at any time, on any occasion and by anybody. It can be used on either a stranger or a person you&rsquo;ve already known.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: When somebody says\u4f60\u597d to you, what should you reply?<\/p>\n<p>  \t(converstation)<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: Right, your reply should be same &#8211; \u4f60\u597d. \u4f60 means &lsquo;you&rsquo;. \u597d means &lsquo;good&rsquo;. Together &lsquo;you- good&rsquo;: \u4f60\u597d\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: The pronunciation of \u4f60 is similar to that of the English word &lsquo;knee&rsquo;, and\u597d similar to &lsquo;how&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: But the tone is totally different. That&rsquo;s because Chinese is a tonal language. It has four basic tones.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: That&rsquo;s what I always have a problem with. It&rsquo;s so confusing!<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: Don&rsquo;t worry. We&rsquo;ll have plenty chances to practice the tones in the future.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: \u4f60\u597d means &lsquo;Hi, hello&rsquo;. Actually &lsquo;Hi&rsquo; is also used in Chinese to make a greeting. So when you forget how to say hello in Chinese, it still works if you say \u55e8. The reply can be same.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: \u55e8can be used on anybody, at any time, like \u4f60\u597d. And both of them are very causal expressions. So when greeting someone older, or, in a formal manner, we usually say Nin Hao. Nin is the polite form of \u4f60\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: Of course, after you say Nin Hao, you won&rsquo;t expect the same words as a reply. Actually the reply can be \u4f60\u597d, or simply a nod.<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: If you want to greet somebody you have already known, you can also say \u4f60\u597d\u5417\uff1fRemember, like the English expression &lsquo;How are you?&rsquo;, it&rsquo;s only used on acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: \u4f60\u597d\u5417\uff1fHow are you? It&rsquo;s \u4f60\u597d plus\u5417. Like a question mark, \u5417 is a sign of a question in Chinese.<br \/>  \tCam: In a reply to \u4f60\u597d\u5417?, we usually say\u6211\u5f88\u597d. I&rsquo;m very well.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: \u6211 is I, \u5f88 means &lsquo;very&rsquo;, and \u597d is &lsquo;good&rsquo;, remember? So word for word, \u6211\u5f88\u597d means &lsquo;I &ndash; very good.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: \u4f60\u597d\u5417, Yajie\uff1f<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: \u6211\u5f88\u597d. \u8c22\u8c22\uff01Thanks. \u8c22\u8c22\uff01<\/p>\n<p>  \t*********** Key words reminder:<br \/>  \tHi, \u4f60\u597d, is the most popular greeting that can be used at any time, on any occasion and by anybody. \u60a8\u597d, also means hello. It&rsquo;s a more polite expression you can use when meeting someone older. \u4f60\u597d\u5417\uff1fis what you can use on somebody you have already known.&nbsp;<br \/>  \t*********<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: In fact there are in China some special ways to say hello, which may confuse we foreigners if we don&rsquo;t know the local culture.<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: Yes. For instance, &lsquo;\u4f60\u5403\u4e86\u5417&rsquo;&nbsp; &#8211; &lsquo;have you eaten&rsquo; . You&#39;ll hear this very very often in Beijing. But never be serious to answer &lsquo;Yes, I&rsquo;ve eaten blah blah blah at my dinner.&rsquo; Don&rsquo;t play fool.<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: In fact, &lsquo;\u4f60\u5403\u4e86\u5417&rsquo; &ndash; Have you eaten? &#8211; is simply a casual greeting like \u4f60\u597d. It&rsquo;s like we Canadians always talk about weather in our daily greetings. But this doesn&rsquo;t mean we&rsquo;re all meteorologists. Got it?<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: Well, that&rsquo;s it for today. Class is over. This is Cam saying goodbye for now!<\/p>\n<p>  \tY: And this is Yajie. Hope you&rsquo;ll join us tomorrow on China Radio International. Bye for now.<\/p>\n<p>  \t(Written by Zhao Pingping)<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1938330742\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio, a brand new Chinese learning program on China Radio International. I&rsquo;m Yajie.<br \/>\n  \tCam: Hi, everyone, I&rsquo;m Cam. This daily show will teach Chinese at the elementary level, which is very appropriate, considering I&rsquo;m just starting to learn myself! 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