{"id":5836,"date":"2019-11-16T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-044-revision-of-nationalities\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T15:07:00","slug":"lesson-044-revision-of-nationalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/lesson-044-revision-of-nationalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 044 Revision of Nationalities"},"content":{"rendered":"
S: Dajia hao. Huan ying dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi Stuart.
M: Nimen hao, wo shi ML.
S: ML, would you believe it, this is our 44th lesson! ‘Lesson’ in Puto<\/em>nghua is ke KE ke 4th tone, ke. I wo<\/em>nder how many of our listeners can say ‘lesson 44’, or, as it goes in Chinese, ‘44th lesson’.
M: Well, some lessons back we learnt to say 1st di yi ge, like in ‘1st question’ di yi ge wenti. And 2nd di er ge, as in di er ge wenti, and so on. So now you can say “44th lesson’ ‘lesson 44. Try it. Dui le! \u7b2c\u56db\u5341\u56db\u8bfe, di si shi si ke.
S: Now say, ‘today is lesson 44’.
M: dui le. \u4eca\u5929\u662f\u7b2c\u56db\u5341\u56db\u8bfe, jin tian shi di si shi si ke.
M: Di si shi si ke shi yi ge fuxi ke. What does that mean?
S: Dui le. Lesson 44 is a revision lesson. Fuxi ke, fuxi ke. So now try to say, ‘today we have a revision lesson’.
M: Hen hao, nimen dou hen congming. ‘Today we have a revision lesson’ is \u4eca\u5929\u6211\u4eec\u6709\u4e00\u4e2a\u590d\u4e60\u8bfe, jin tian women you yi ge fuxi ke.
S: Revision, with a few new things.
S: Remember \u7b2c\u56db\u5341\u4e00\u8bfe\uff0c lesson 41, di si shi yi ke. In the jiuba with Mary and Li xiansheng. Mali shi ge laoshi, Mary’s a teacher. Her foreign students came. \u5979\u7684\u5916\u56fd\u5b66\u751f\u6765\u4e86.
Hear the word for ‘foreign’? Listen again.
M: Ta de waiguo xuesheng lai le.
S: Duile. Waiguo wai WAI wai, 4th tone, here means ‘outside’. Guo GUO guo, as in Zhongguo, means ‘country’. Waiguo, foreign.
M: Foreign student, or students. \u5916\u56fd\u5b66\u751f, waiguo xuesheng.
S: Two countries we’ve learnt. We say the English, you say the Chinese on your own, then with us. Ready?
M: Australia. Aodaliya.
S: New Zealand. Xinxilan
M: Now on your own say, ‘what natio<\/em>nality is he?’ And answer, “he is a Canadian.” Dui le. Ta shi nei guo ren? Ta shi Jia’nadaren.
S: Now say she is American. Ta shi Meiguoren.
M: Hen hao.
M: And in \u7b2c\u56db\u5341\u4e09\u8bfe, lesson 43, di si shi san ke, we learnt.
S: \u6211\u997f\u4e86, I’m hungry, wo e le, wo feichang e.
M: So we’ll immediately go and eat. \u6211\u4eec\u9a6c\u4e0a\u53bb\u5403\u996d\uff0c women mashang qu chi fan.
S: Now, try to answer this question, and tell us you are not hungry. No help from us. Well, just a little help. First listen to this Q & A.
M: Stuart, \u4f60\u7d2f\u5417, ni lei ma?
S: \u6211\u4e0d\u7d2f, wo bu lei.
M: Now your question. \u4f60\u997f, ni e ma?
S: Dui le. \u6211\u4e0d\u997f, wo bu e.
M: But I am, so we have to finish now.
S: Ok, I’ll go for a snack. See you next lesson. Zaijian.
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