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Lesson 013 Usages of the NumbersⅠ

C: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I’m Cam. 
Y: Hi, everyone, I’m Yajie. 早上好. Last week we learned the numbers from 1 to 100. It’s very useful for communicating and getting around China.  This week we’ll mainly focus on how to use the numbers in sentences. Let’s check our key words of the day! 
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Today we’ll put the numbers into their usages. For example, 2003年, the year 2003; 2005年, the year 2005. 一月, January; 二月, February. 三月，March. All in today’s Chinese Studio.　
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Lesson 012 Revision of Numbers

Y: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I’m Yajie.
C: Good morning, I’m Cam. Well, we are almost at the end of the week. It’s time for us to review what we’ve learned.
Y: Yeah. This week we mainly focused on numbers and some sentences related to numbers. Let’s review.

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Lesson 011 Numbers from 11 to 100

Y: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I’m Yajie. 
C: It’s good to be back.  I’m Cam.  你好 Yajie.
Y: 你好！Today we’ll learn more numbers. Before continuing with more numbers this time, let’s first review what we learned during the last two lessons, ‘cause what we are going to learn this time has an intimate relationship with them. 
C: Well, during the last two lessons we learned how to say the numbers from 1 to 10 in Chinese. 
Y: Cam, could you please have a try to speak them out? 
C: Ok. No problem. From 1 to five they are 一二三四五 (yī èr sān sìwǔ.) Right? 
Y: Exactly. Then what about those from six to ten ?
C: They are 六七八九十 (liù qī bā jiǔ shí). 
Y: Great! Then we’ll learn more numbers. First let’s check our key words of the day!

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