M: Péngyǒumen. Nǐmen hǎo! Huānyíng shōutīng Xiànzài Xué Hànyǔ. Wǒ shì ML.
S: Wǒ shì Stuart. ML, last lesson you said you like horse riding. 在上一课你说你很喜欢骑马,zài shàng yí kè, nǐ shuō nǐ hěn xǐhuān qí mǎ.
M: Duì, wǒ hěn xǐhuān qí mǎ.
S: Remember this 骑 QI qí? Duìle. Ride a bike, 骑自行车 qí zìxíngchē, or, simply, 骑车 qíchē. Ride a horse, qí mǎ.
M: Now, more of our 12 lunar calendar dòngwù.
S: Guess what the next one is. And try to pick out the word for ‘hill’. ML will now say, On the hill are ten something something. (baa baa sound)
M: 山上有十只羊 shān shàng yǒu shí zhī yáng.
S: So what is a hill? Duì le! 山 SHAN shān. It also means ‘mountain’. Listen for the measure word when ML says, On that hill, or mountain.
M: 在那座山上 zài nà zuò shān shàng.
S: Hear it? It’s 座 ZUO zuò, and it’s used for big things, like hills, mountains and bridges. Now, back to our animals.
M: 在那座山上有十只羊 zài nà zuò shān shàng yǒu shí zhī yáng.
S: shí zhī yáng. Guessed it? Yes, shí zhī yáng is ten sheep. 羊 YANG yáng, sheep. The measure word is again zhī.
M: Now say with me, 在那座山上有七只羊 zài nà zuò shān shàng yǒu qī zhī yáng.
S: Tian a! We’ve lost three sheep. Sān zhī yáng dīu le!
S: That was a nice break! By the way, this is a good time to learn ‘goat’. Since you’ve learnt shān and yáng, you’ve learnt ‘goat’. ML will now say, on the hill are six goats.
M: 山上有六只山羊 shān shàng yǒu lìu zhī shānyáng.
S: ‘Goat’, easy, shānyáng, literally, mountain, or hill, sheep. Shānyáng. And, as with yáng, we use zhī, so five goats, wǔ zhī shānyáng.
M: Xiàn zài, dì jǐu ge dòngwù.
S: The most important, because I was born in the year of this animal. ML will now say, On, or in, the tree are eight something something.
M: 树上有八只猴子 shù shàng yǒu bā zhī hóuzi.
S: bā zhī hóuzi. What is a hóuzi? Duìle. Monkey! 猴子 HOU ZI hóuzi. So everybody say, I like monkeys. Méi cuò. 我喜欢猴子 wǒ xǐhuān hóuzi.
S: To finish, listen and repeat….
M: 在那座山上有十只羊, zài nà zuò shān shàng yǒu shí zhī yáng.
S: 树上有八只猴子 shù shàng yǒu bā zhī hóuzi.
M: Very cute monkeys. Hěn kě’ài de hóuzi.
S: Let’s go see them. Zàijiàn.