{"id":16290,"date":"2019-11-09T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/teaching-examination\/lesson-070-how-long-have-you-been-studying-chinese-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T11:00:41","slug":"lesson-070-how-long-have-you-been-studying-chinese-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-070-how-long-have-you-been-studying-chinese-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 070 How Long Have You Been Studying Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \t<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/res.hjfile.cn\/pt\/vendor\/hjplayer.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>HJPlayer.init(\"hjptype=song&player=1&son=https:\/\/f1.w.hjfile.cn\/file\/201107\/lesson070.MP3&autoplay=no&caption=false&lrc=&autoreplay=1&bgcolor=FFFFFF&width=200&height=20\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: Welcome to Chinese Studio. Wo shi Yajie.<br \/>  \tCam: Hello, everybody, Da4 jia1 hao3. Wo3 shi4 Cam. YJ, can you do me a favor?<br \/>  \tYJ: Sure! What is it?<br \/>  \tCam: Well, you see, all my Chinese friends know I&rsquo;m studying Chinese, so they often ask me the same question- &lsquo;how long have you been studying Chinese&rsquo;? But I don&rsquo;t know how to answer that in Chinese!<br \/>  \tYJ: well, you&rsquo;ll figure it out in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong><br \/>  \tHow long have you been studying Chinese? \u4f60\u5b66\u6c49\u8bed\u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4\u4e86\uff1f\u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4 means &lsquo;how long&rsquo;. \u5b66&nbsp; to &ldquo;study&rdquo;, \u5df2\u7ecf, already. \u624d, only. All in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: How long have you been studying Chinese? \u4f60\u5b66\u6c49\u8bed\u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4\u4e86(ni3 xue2 han4 yu3 duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1 le)? ni3 means you. Xue2, second tone, means to study. And Han4 yu3 means Chinese language.<br \/>  \tCam: So xue2 han4 yu3 means to study Chinese.<br \/>  \tYJ: Good. And\u591a\u957f (duo1 chang2) means how long.<br \/>  \tCam: \u591a\u957f (duo1 chang2)<br \/>  \tYJ: Right. duo1 chang2 is a general term that can be applied to either length or duration. Here we can say \u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4(duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1), literally means how long time.&nbsp; \u65f6\u95f4(shi2 jian1), time.<br \/>  \tCam: duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1, &lsquo;how long&rsquo;.<br \/>  \tYJ: Correct. Put all phrases together, ni3 xue2 han4 yu3 duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1 le? How long have you been studying Chinese? Remember, the ending \u4e86(le) is a particle word, meaning the completion of an action.<br \/>  \tCam: ni3 xue2 han4 yu3 duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1 le?<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation1:<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: Actually I&rsquo;ve been studying Chinese for a year. I know a year is yi4 nian2. Can I give my answer by replacing &lsquo;duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1&rsquo; with yi4 nian2? This would be &lsquo;Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 yi4 nian2 le&rsquo;.<br \/>  \tYJ: very good, Cam! But usually we&rsquo;d like to put in some adverbs in front. For instance: \u5df2\u7ecf(yi3 jing1) means already. yi3, the third tone, and jing1, first tone.<br \/>  \tCam: yi3 jing1.<br \/>  \tYJ: So Cam, if you want to say &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been studying Chinese already for a year.&rdquo;, you may say it in this way\u6211\u5b66\u6c49\u8bed\u5df2\u7ecf\u4e00\u5e74\u4e86(Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 yi3 jing1 yi4 nian2 le)\u3002<br \/>  \tCam: Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 yi3 jing1 yi4 nian2 le\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation2:<\/p>\n<p>  \tYJ: and there is another adverb for you to choose from. It&rsquo;s&nbsp; \u624d(cai2) ,second tone, means &lsquo;only&rsquo;. So when you want to say &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been studying Chinese only for a year.&rdquo; then you can say &lsquo;Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 cai2 yi4 nian2&rsquo;.<br \/>  \tCam:&nbsp; Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 cai2 yi4 nian2&rsquo;. But YJ, where is the particle word &lsquo;le&rsquo;?<br \/>  \tYJ: Good question. Actually here le can&rsquo;t be used together with\u624d(cai2) which means &lsquo;only&rsquo;. So it&#39;s Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 cai2 yi4 nian2&rsquo;. I&rsquo;ve been studying Chinese only for a year.<br \/>  \tCam: Wo3 xue2 han4 yu3 cai2 yi4 nian2&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation3:<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: YJ, there is another question I often heard &ndash; how long have you been in Beijing? Can I use the sentence pattern we&rsquo;ve just learned ?<br \/>  \tYJ: Surely you can. You just need to replace xue2 han4 yu3 with lai2 bei3 jing1. &lsquo;\u6765\u5317\u4eac(lai2 bei3 jing1)&rsquo; means to &lsquo;be in Beijing&rsquo;.&nbsp;<br \/>  \tYJ: So the question would be: \u4f60\u6765\u5317\u4eac\u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4\u4e86(ni3 lai2 bei3 jing1 duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1 le)\uff1fHow long have you been in Beijing?<br \/>  \tCam: ni3 lai2 bei3 jing1 duo1 chang2 shi2 jian1 le\uff1f<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation4:<\/p>\n<p>  \tKey Words Reminder<br \/>  \tHow long have you been studying Chinese? \u4f60\u5b66\u6c49\u8bed\u591a\u957f\u65f6\u95f4\u4e86\uff1f \u5df2\u7ecf, already. \u624d, only.<\/p>\n<p>  \tCam: Well Yajie, how time flies. Here comes our question of the day: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been studying Chinese only for five minutes.&rdquo; Can you say this in Chinese now?<br \/>  \tYJ: here is a hint for all of our listeners: five minutes is wu3 fen1 zhong1. Please send your answer to Chinese@crifm.com. Now class is over. 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What is it?<br \/>\n  \tCam: Well, you see, all my Chinese friends know I&rsquo;m studying Chinese, so they often ask me the same question- &lsquo;how long have you been studying Chinese&rsquo;? But I don&rsquo;t know how to answer that in Chinese!<br \/>\n  \tYJ: well, you&rsquo;ll figure it out in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio.<\/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":[28],"tags":[370,57,98,246,408],"class_list":["post-16290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-examination","tag-chinese-for","tag-chinese-language","tag-chinese-studio","tag-study-chinese","tag-studying-chinese"],"views":263,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290","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=16290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}