{"id":5890,"date":"2019-11-18T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-003-welcome-to-china\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:55:59","slug":"lesson-003-welcome-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/lesson-003-welcome-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 003 Welcome to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>M: Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. Welcome to China. Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. <br \/>  Huanying HUAN YING. huan, HUAN 1st tone. Y&iacute;ng YING y&iacute;ng, 2nd tone. Huanying means Welcome. Huanying ni, huanying ni, welcome you, or simply welcome. <br \/>  S: Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. Dao4 DAO d&agrave;o here means to arrive, or reach. D&agrave;o, 4th tone, d&agrave;o to arrive or reach. <br \/>  M: And zhong ZHONG zhong, 1st tone means middle. Gu&oacute; GUO gu&oacute;, second tone, is country, or kingdom, so zhongguo, Middle Kingdom, or China. <br \/>  S: And l&aacute;i LAI l&aacute;i is to come. \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230\u4e2d\u56fd\u6765 welcome to China. Say it everybody. <br \/>  M: Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai, huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. <br \/>  S: And xi&egrave; XIE XIE, xi&egrave;, meaning thanks, and always said twice. Xiexie, thanks. <br \/>  (break) <br \/>  M: Now for the short dialogue again, at natural speed. Stuart, \u4f60\u597d! <br \/>  S: ni hao\uff01 <br \/>  M: \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230\u4e2d\u56fd\u6765 <br \/>  S: \u8c22\u8c22 <br \/>  M: \u5f88\u597d\uff0cvery good. Now listen to and try to mimic this:. \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 (pause) \u5317\u4eac \u6765. Huanying ni dao Beijing lai. No prizes for guessing what Beijing means. B\u011bi BEI b\u011bi, 3rd tone, is north. J\u012bng JING j\u012bng, hear the tone? 1st tone. J\u012bng. Remind our listeners of the to<em><\/em>nes again, Stuart. <br \/>  S: \u6ca1\u95ee\u9898\uff0cmei wenti, no problem! Mei wenti. Ready? Flat, rising, down and up, down! <br \/>  M: So, jing1, right. 1st tone. And here jing means capital. Beijing &ndash; northern capital, referring to the capital of China, and wher Stuart and I am right now. Now, let&#8217;s pretend we&#8217;re in another city. \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 \u5357\u4eac \u6765, huanying ni dao nanjing lai. <br \/>  S: Nanjing. N&aacute;n NAN n&aacute;n means south. Jing is capital. So, southern capital. Nanjing, another famous city in China. <br \/>  M: But we don&#8217;t have time for all the cities in China. Time&#8217;s up. <br \/>  S: We&#8217;ll finish by welcoming you all to China. <br \/>  S\/M: Huanying dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai! 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