{"id":10776,"date":"2019-11-17T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-089-shopping-1\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T23:47:46","slug":"lesson-089-shopping-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-089-shopping-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 089 &#8211; Shopping (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"left\">Cam:&nbsp; Welcome to a brand new week on Chinese Studio. Wo shi Cam.<br \/>  YJ:&nbsp;  Wo shi Yajie.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in o<em><\/em>nly five  minutes a day.&nbsp; And this week we are going to talk a<em><\/em>bout &hellip;shopping!<br \/>  Cam:&nbsp; You must&rsquo;ve picked this topic!&nbsp; I know girls love to shop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong> <br \/>  I am looking for a jacket.  \u6211\u60f3\u4e70\u4e00\u4ef6\u5939\u514b\u3002(Wo3 xiang3 mai3 yi2 ge4 jia1ke4\uff09What&rsquo;s your size? \u60a8\u7a7f\u591a\u5927\u7684\uff1f\uff08nin2  chuan1 duo1 da4 de?\uff09\u5c0f\u53f7\uff0csmall size. \u4e2d\u53f7\uff0cmedium size. \u5927\u53f7\uff0clarge size.&nbsp; It is  too small. \u592a\u5c0f\u4e86 It&rsquo;s too big. \u592a\u5927\u4e86. All in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>Cam:&nbsp; Yajie, I am in dire need of a new jacket. When I go into a shop, how do I say that to a sales person?<br \/>  YJ: Well, it is wise to buy a cheap jacket now. You can say &ldquo;\u6211\u60f3\u4e70\u4e00\u4ef6\u5939\u514b\u3002(Wo3 xiang3 mai3 yi2 jian4 jia1ke4)&rdquo;<br \/>  Cam: \u6211\u60f3\u4e70\u4e00\u4ef6\u5939\u514b\u3002(Wo3 xiang3 mai3 yi2 jian4 jia1ke4)<br \/>  YJ: \u6211 (Wo3), I. <br \/>  Cam: \u6211 (Wo3)<br \/>  YJ: \u60f3,x-i-a-n-g, want to. <br \/>  Cam: \u60f3 (xiang3).&nbsp; <br \/>  YJ: \u4e70 (mai3), mai, the third tone. <br \/>  Cam: \u4e70 (mai3). And that means &ldquo;to buy&rdquo;, right?<br \/>  YJ: Right. \u4e70 (mai3), to buy. And \u5356(mai4), the fourth tone, means to sell.<br \/>  Cam: That&#8217;s tricky,\u5356(mai4), to sell. <br \/>  YJ: \u4e00(yi2) means one. \u4ef6(jian4) is the measure word for clothes. <br \/>  Cam: \u4e00\u4ef6(yi2 jian4)<br \/>  YJ: \u5939\u514b (jia1ke4) means jacket. <br \/>  Cam: \u5939\u514b (jia1ke4)<br \/>  YJ: \u6211\u60f3\u4e70\u4e00\u4ef6\u5939\u514b\u3002(Wo3 xiang3 mai3 yi2 jian4 jia1ke4) I am looking for a jacket.<br \/>  Cam: \u6211\u60f3\u4e70\u4e00\u4ef6\u5939\u514b\u3002(Wo3 xiang3 mai3 yi2 jian4 jia1ke4).<\/p>\n<p>Conversation1:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: Yajie, how do you say &ldquo;What&rsquo;s your size&rdquo; in Chinese?<br \/>  YJ: It&rsquo;s \u60a8\u7a7f\u591a\u5927\u7684\uff1f\uff08nin2 chuan1 duo1 da4 de?\uff09<br \/>  Cam: \u60a8\u7a7f\u591a\u5927\u7684\uff1f\uff08nin2 chuan1 duo1 da4 de?\uff09. <br \/>  YJ: \u60a8 (nin2), you<br \/>  Cam: \u60a8 (nin2) <br \/>  YJ: \u7a7f (chuan1), c-h-u-a-n, the first tone, means to wear. <br \/>  Cam: \u7a7f (chuan1)<br \/>  YJ: \u591a\u5927(duo1 da4). Literally it means how large. <br \/>  Cam: \u591a\u5927(duo1 da4). \u5927(da4) means large, and \u5c0f(xiao3) means small. They are opposite, right?<br \/>  YJ: Yes. \u60a8\u7a7f\u591a\u5927\u7684\uff1f\uff08nin2 chuan1 duo1 da4 de?\uff09. What&rsquo;s your size?<br \/>  Cam: \u60a8\u7a7f\u591a\u5927\u7684\uff1f\uff08nin2 chuan1 duo1 da4 de?\uff09<br \/>  YJ: Then you can tell the seller your size.<br \/>  Cam: All right. How do I say that? <br \/>  YJ: In China, we usually use small, medium, large, and extra large. <br \/>  Cam: I see. We just learned xiao is small, da is large, right?<br \/>  YJ: Right, and medium is zhong1, the first tone.<br \/>  Cam: zhong. <br \/>  YJ: extra large is jia da<br \/>  Cam: jia da. I think jia da size will fit me well! Yajie, what&rsquo;s the Chinese for size.<br \/>  YJ: it&rsquo;s hao. So you just need to say small, medium, or large before hao. For example, small size would be xiao hao.<br \/>  Cam: the medum would be zhong hao. And large would be da hao. Extra-large, jia da hao.<br \/>  YJ: Very good.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation2:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: Oh, no, Yajie, even though this is an extra large jacket,&nbsp; I think it is a bit too small for me. <br \/>  YJ: Oh, Cam, you have to lose your beer belly. You can say to sales person, &ldquo;\u592a\u5c0f\u4e86(Tai4 xiao3 le)&rdquo;, &ldquo;\u592a&rdquo; means very or extremely.<br \/>  Cam: \u592a\uff08tai4)<br \/>  YJ: \u592a\u5c0f\u4e86<br \/>  Cam: \u592a\u5c0f\u4e86<br \/>  YJ: Now Cam, you may guess what&#8217;s the Chinese for &quot;too large&quot;.<br \/>  Cam: Well,&nbsp; I would say it&#8217;s&nbsp; \u592a\u5927\u4e86.<br \/>  YJ: Right. \u592a\u5927\u4e86(tai4 da4 le). It&rsquo;s too large.<br \/>  Cam: \u592a\u5927\u4e86(tai4 da4 le)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-191518031\"><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>Cam:&nbsp; Welcome to a brand new week on Chinese Studio. Wo shi Cam.<br \/>\n  YJ:&nbsp;  Wo shi Yajie.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in only five  minutes a day.&nbsp; And this week we are going to talk about &hellip;shopping!<br \/>\n  Cam:&nbsp; You must&rsquo;ve picked this topic!&nbsp; I know girls love to shop.<\/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":[370,98,2062],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-for","tag-chinese-studio","tag-measure-word-for-clothes"],"views":185,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}