{"id":16289,"date":"2019-11-09T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/teaching-examination\/lesson-069-expressions-of-duration-i-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T10:09:23","slug":"lesson-069-expressions-of-duration-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/lesson-069-expressions-of-duration-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 069 Expressions of Duration (I)"},"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=1&son=https:\/\/f1.w.hjfile.cn\/file\/201107\/lesson069.MP3&autoplay=no&caption=false&lrc=&autoreplay=1&bgcolor=FFFFFF&width=200&height=20\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: Welcome to Chinese Studio. Da4 jia1 hao3, Wo3 shi4 Cam.<br \/>  \tYJ: Hi, Wo3 shi4 YJ. Nice to have you with us again. I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll make a difference if we study for five minutes everyday.<br \/>  \tCam: Actually this is what we are going to learn today &ndash; some basic expressions of duration.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong><br \/>  \t\u4e00\u5e74\uff0cone year. \u4e03\u5929\uff0cseven days. \u4e94\u5206\u949f\uff0cfive minutes. \u4e00\u4e2a\u6708\uff0cone month..\u56db\u5468, four weeks. \u4e00\u4e2a\u6708\u6709\u56db\u5468 there are four weeks in a month. All in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: We learned numbers in a previous show Yajie&#8230; but how do you say, for instance, one year, two years, three years &hellip;?&nbsp;<br \/>  \tYJ: Year is \u5e74(nian2)\uff0csecond tone. And remember one is\u4e00(yi)? So one year is \u4e00\u5e74(yi4 nian2).<br \/>  \tCam: Year is \u5e74(nian2). yi4 nian2 , one year.<br \/>  \tYJ: Two years, \u4e24\u5e74(liang3 nian2). Three years, san1 nian2.<br \/>  \tCam: liang3 nian2 means two years, and san1 nian2, three years. YJ, so it seems that I just need to put the number in front of nian2, right?<br \/>  \tYJ: Yes. And this rule also works on such as day, minute, etc. day in Chinese is tian1, and minute is fen1 zhong1. \u5929\uff0ct-i-an, first tone.<br \/>  \tCam: tian1, first tone, means day.<br \/>  \tYJ: fen1 zhong1, both in the first tone, together mean minute.<br \/>  \tCam: feng1 zhong1.<br \/>  \tYJ: Now Cam, how do say four days and seven days?<br \/>  \tCam: Four is si4 in Chinese. Seven is qi1. And day is tian1. So four days would be si4 tian1 and seven days &ndash; qi1 tian1. Right?&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>  \tYJ: Absolutely. How about five minutes and eight minutes?<br \/>  \tCam: five is wu3, eight is ba1, and minute is Fen1 zhong1. So five minutes would be wu3 fen1 zhong1, and eight minutes &#8211; ba1 fen1 zhong1.<br \/>  \tYJ: Very good. Let&rsquo;s listen to these terms of duration again.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation1:<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: Cam, do you remember the Chinese word for month is yue4, fourth tone?<br \/>  \tCam: Oh, you&rsquo;ve reminded me. Yue4 means month. So I guess I can also just put number in front of yue to express one month, two month etc, am I right?<br \/>  \tYJ: Sorry Cam, it&rsquo;s not exactly the same. As for one month, you have to put a measure word ge4 between number and month, otherwise, it&rsquo;ll be confusing. For example, yi1 yue4, which you think it means one month, actually means January.<br \/>  \tCam: Oh&hellip; right. Then what is the right way of saying one month?<br \/>  \tYJ: one month would be yi2 ge4 yue4.<br \/>  \tCam: yi2 ge4 yue4, one month.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation2:<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: Now we mentioned year, month, then I can tell you the Chinese for week.<br \/>  \tCam: I think I learned it before, it&rsquo;s xing1 qi1, right?<br \/>  \tYJ: absolutely. But a much easier and common way is: zhou1<br \/>  \tCam: zhou1<br \/>  \tYJ: so one week is yi4 zhou1,<br \/>  \tCam: yi4 zhou1.<br \/>  \tYJ: two weeks is liang3 zhou1.<br \/>  \tCam: liang3 zhou1.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation3:<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: Now Cam, please try if you can understand this sentence: \u4e00\u4e2a\u6708\u6709\u56db\u5468\u3002(yi2 ge4 yue4 you3 si4 zhou1)\u3002Remember, you3 means &lsquo;have&rsquo; or &lsquo;there is something in someplace. &rsquo;.<br \/>  \tCam: ok, let me try it. And yi2 ge4 yue4 means one month. And si4 zhou1 means four weeks. So I guess the whole sentence means &lsquo;There are four weeks in one month.&rsquo;<br \/>  \tYJ: Excellent. \u4e00\u4e2a\u6708\u6709\u56db\u5468\u3002(yi2 ge4 yue4 you3 si4 zhou1)\u3002There are four weeks in one month.<br \/>  \tCam: \u4e00\u4e2a\u6708\u6709\u56db\u5468\u3002(yi2 ge4 yue4 you3 si4 zhou1)\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: Well, that&rsquo;s it for today. Now can you tell us how to say there are four weeks in one month?<br \/>  \tCam: Send us your answer to Chinese@crifm.com. We look forward to sharing with you every progress you&rsquo;ll make. Be sure to join us tomorrow. Ming2 tian1 jian.<br \/>  \tYJ: Zai4 jian4.<\/p>\n<p>  \t(Written by Wang Anjing)<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3735558870\"><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>Cam: Welcome to Chinese Studio. Da4 jia1 hao3, Wo3 shi4 Cam.<br \/>\n  \tYJ: Hi, Wo3 shi4 YJ. Nice to have you with us again. I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll make a difference if we study for five minutes everyday.<br \/>\n  \tCam: Actually this is what we are going to learn today &ndash; some basic expressions of duration.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[370,98],"class_list":["post-16289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-examination","tag-chinese-for","tag-chinese-studio"],"views":147,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}