{"id":10770,"date":"2019-11-17T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-083-restaurants-3\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T18:11:03","slug":"lesson-083-restaurants-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/lesson-083-restaurants-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 083 \u2013Restaurants (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"left\">Yajie:&nbsp; Cam, you should be an expert now when ordering food in a Chinese restaurant.<br \/>  Cam:&nbsp;  Yes, for the last couple of weeks on Chinese Studio, we&#8217;ve been  learning how to order food, drinks, call the waiter or waitress over,  and all sorts of useful ex<em><\/em>pressions.&nbsp; But now the meal is ending, I&#8217;m  full and we need to wrap up the transaction.<br \/>  Yajie:&nbsp; Okay, but we have one more restaurant lesson.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s check Key Words of the Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong> <br \/>  Excuse me, can I get the  bill? \u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09 How much is it? \u591a\u5c11\u94b1\uff1f(duo1shao3  qian2) Can I get a receipt? \u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968(kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4 ) How late are you  open until?\u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1f(ni3men2 ji3 dian3 guan1 men2\uff09. All in today&rsquo;s  Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Cam: Okay Yajie&hellip;.after eating all of this marvellous Chinese food,  I&#8217;m now full.&nbsp; And ready to go home or maybe even better go for a walk!&nbsp;  So how do I ask for the bill?<br \/>  Yajie: Well, you should say\u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09<br \/>  Cam:&nbsp; \u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09<br \/>  Yajie: \u670d\u52a1\u5458(fu2wu4yuan2), waiter or waitress. We learned it in our last lesson.<br \/>  Cam: Right, \u670d\u52a1\u5458(fu2wu4yuan2).<br \/>  Yajie: \u4e70\u5355 (mai3dan1), to pay for the bill.<br \/>  Cam: \u4e70\u5355 (mai3dan1)<br \/>  Yajie: \u4e70 (mai3) means buy. M-a-i, the third tone.<br \/>  Cam: \u4e70(mai3).<br \/>  Yajie: \u5355(dan1), d-a-n, the first tone. Here it means bill. <br \/>  Cam: \u5355(dan1)<br \/>  Yajie: \u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09<br \/>  Cam: \u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09<\/p>\n<p>Conversation1:<\/p>\n<p>  Yajie: From the previous co<em><\/em>nversation you may have found the way of asking &ldquo;how much is it?&rdquo;<br \/>  Cam: Yes. In Chinese we&#8217;ve learned it before, it&rsquo;s\u591a\u5c11\u94b1\uff1f(duo1shao3 qian2)<br \/>  Yajie: \u591a\u5c11\u94b1\uff1f(duo1shao qian2), how much is it?<br \/>  Cam: \u94b1, q-i-a-n, the second tone, right? <br \/>  Yajie: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation2:<\/p>\n<p>  Cam: Yajie\uff0chow do you say &ldquo;can I get a receipt?&rdquo; in Chinese? <br \/>  Yajie: It&#8217;s\u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968. (kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4)<br \/>  Cam: \u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968( kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4)<br \/>  Yajie:  kai fapiao means you want the waiter or waitress to write a receipt for  you, fapiao means receipt, we learned it in the taxi lesson, remember? <br \/>  Cam: Yes. Fa piao. <br \/>  Yajie: zhang is short for yi zhang. <br \/>  Cam: zhang. Like dian er is short for yi dian er, right? <br \/>  Yajie: exactly. Together it&#8217;s\u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968. (kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4)<br \/>  Cam: \u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968( kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4)<\/p>\n<p>  Conversation3:<\/p>\n<p>  Cam: Yajie, I often have a late dinner, so I&rsquo;m always worried if  they will suddenly close the restaurant while I&rsquo;m eating. And plus, I  may want to come back another day late.So, what&#8217;s the Chinese for: How  late are you open until?<br \/>  Yajie: Well, Cam, it&rsquo;s not very good for your health, anyway it&rsquo;s \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1f(ni3men2 ji3 dian3 guan1 men2)<br \/>  Cam: \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1f(ni3men i3 dian3 guan1 men2)<br \/>  Yajie: \u4f60\u4eec(ni3men) means you.<br \/>  Cam: \u4f60\u4eec(ni3men).<br \/>  Yajie: \u51e0\u70b9 (ji3 dian3), what time?<br \/>  Cam: \u51e0\u70b9(ji3 dian3).<br \/>  Yajie: \u5173\u95e8(guan1 men2). Normally it means close the door. But here it has a special meaning of &ldquo;closed&rdquo;.<br \/>  Cam: \u5173\u95e8(guan1 men2), closed.<br \/>  Yajie: So, how late are you open until is \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1f(ni3men i3 dian3 guan1 men2) ?<br \/>  Cam: \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1f(ni3men i3 dian3 guan1 men2)\u3000<\/p>\n<p>Conversation4:<\/p>\n<p>  Key Words Reminder <br \/>  Excuse me, can I get the bill?  \u670d\u52a1\u5458\uff0c\u4e70\u5355\u3002\uff08fu2wu4yuan2, mai3dan1.\uff09 How much is it? \u591a\u5c11\u94b1\uff1f(duo1shao3 qian2)  Can I get a receipt? \u5f00\u5f20\u53d1\u7968(kai1 zhang1 fa1piao4 ) How late are you open  until?\uff08\u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5173\u95e8\uff1fni3men ji3 dian3 guan1 men2\uff09.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3424142782\"><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>Yajie:&nbsp; Cam, you should be an expert now when ordering food in a Chinese restaurant.<br \/>\n  Cam:&nbsp;  Yes, for the last couple of weeks on Chinese Studio, we&#8217;ve been  learning how to order food, drinks, call the waiter or waitress over,  and all sorts of useful expressions.&nbsp; But now the meal is ending, I&#8217;m  full and we need to wrap up the transaction.<br \/>\n  Yajie:&nbsp; Okay, but we have one more restaurant lesson.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s check Key Words of the Day.<\/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":[2853],"tags":[370,98],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-for","tag-chinese-studio"],"views":220,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}