{"id":16399,"date":"2019-11-14T00:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/teaching-examination\/lesson-185-post-office-i-nbsp\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:12:49","slug":"lesson-185-post-office-i-nbsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-185-post-office-i-nbsp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 185 \u2013 Post Office I&nbsp;"},"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\/lesson185.MP3&autoplay=no&caption=false&lrc=&autoreplay=1&bgcolor=FFFFFF&width=200&height=20\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>  \tC:&nbsp; Welcome to Chinese Studio, wo shi Cam.&nbsp;<br \/>  \tY:&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in only five minutes a day.&nbsp; Wo shi Yajie.&nbsp; Cam, do you ever send letters back to Canada?<br \/>  \tC:&nbsp; Well, Yajie, you see. I&rsquo;d like to, but I&rsquo;m not sure what to say to the clerk!<br \/>  \tY: Well, this week might help you then.&nbsp; Listen up!<\/p>\n<p>  \tKey words of the day<br \/>  \tPost Office. \u90ae\u5c40 where is the post office? \u90ae\u5c40\u5728\u54ea\uff1fChina Post. \u4e2d\u56fd\u90ae\u653f. I&rsquo;d like to mail a letter.&nbsp; \u6211\u8981\u5bc4\u5c01\u4fe1\u3002I want to send a package to Hongkong. \u6211\u8981\u5bc4\u4e2a\u5305\u88f9\u53bb\u9999\u6e2f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tC:&nbsp; Yajie, first of all, how do I say Post Office?<br \/>  \tY: it&rsquo;s called you2 ju2.<br \/>  \tC: you2 ju2.<br \/>  \tY: you2 means post,<br \/>  \tC: you2.<br \/>  \tY: ju2 means a subdivision of a governmental department.<br \/>  \tC: ju2.<br \/>  \tY: you2 ju2.<br \/>  \tC: you2 ju2. So if I wanted to go to a post office, I could say you ju zai nar?<br \/>  \tY: exactly. You2 ju2 zai4 nar3?<br \/>  \tC: zai4 nar3 means at where,<br \/>  \tY: and post office is you2 ju2, so where is the post office is you2 ju2 zai4 nar3?<br \/>  \tC: right. you2 ju2 zai4 nar3<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation1:<br \/>  \tA\uff1a\u8bf7\u95ee \u90ae\u5c40\u5728\u54ea\uff1f<br \/>  \tB\uff1a\u5c31\u5728\u524d\u9762\u62d0\u89d2\u5904\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tC:&nbsp; And in China, I see they are all called China Post, so do I pronounce that differently?<br \/>  \tY: It&rsquo;s zhong1 guo2 you2 zheng4.<br \/>  \tC: zhong1 guo2 you2 zheng4.<br \/>  \tY: zhong1 guo2 means China,<br \/>  \tC: zhong1 guo2<br \/>  \tY: you2 zheng4 means postal service,<br \/>  \tC: you2 zheng4.<br \/>  \tY: zhong1 guo2 you2 zheng4.<br \/>  \tC: zhong1 guo2 you2 zheng4. China Post.<br \/>  \tC: So once I&rsquo;m inside, I&rsquo;ll want to mail a letter.<br \/>  \tY:&nbsp; You can say wo3 yao4 ji4 feng1 xin4.<br \/>  \tC: wo3 yao4 ji4 feng1 xin4.<br \/>  \tY: wo3 means I,<br \/>  \tC: wo3,<br \/>  \tY: yao4 means need to do something,&nbsp;<br \/>  \tC: yao4.<br \/>  \tY: ji4 means mail,<br \/>  \tC: ji4.<br \/>  \tY: feng1 is a measure word of letter, it&rsquo;s short for yi4 feng1, which means one,<br \/>  \tC: right. In English we just say a letter. Yi4 feng1.<br \/>  \tY: and letter is xin4.<br \/>  \tC: xin4.<br \/>  \tY: wo3 yao4 ji4 feng1 xin4.<br \/>  \tC: wo3 yao4 ji4 feng1 xin4. I want to mail a letter.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation2:<br \/>  \tA\uff1a\u6211\u8981\u5bc4\u5c01\u4fe1\u3002\u4f60\u77e5\u9053\u90ae\u5c40\u5728\u54ea\u5417\uff1f<br \/>  \tB: \u770b\u5230\u4e2d\u56fd\u90ae\u653f\u51e0\u4e2a\u5b57\u4e86\u5417\uff1f\u5c31\u5728\u524d\u9762\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: Now what if I want to send a package to Hong Kong?<br \/>  \tY:&nbsp; you can say &ldquo;wo3 yao4 ji4 ge4 bao1 guo3 qu4 xiang1 gang3.&rdquo;<br \/>  \tC: wo3 yao4 ji4 ge4 bao1 guo3 qu4 xiang1 gang3.<br \/>  \tY: wo3 means I<br \/>  \tC: wo3.<br \/>  \tY: yao4 means want to,<br \/>  \tC: yao4.<br \/>  \tY: ji4 means mail,<br \/>  \tC: ji4.<br \/>  \tY: ge4 is short for yi2 ge4, which means one,<br \/>  \tC: right, and is ge4 the measure word for package?<br \/>  \tY: yes. Package in Chinese is bao1 guo3,<br \/>  \tC: bao1 guo3.<br \/>  \tY: qu4 means to,<br \/>  \tC: qu4,<br \/>  \tY: xiang1 gang3. Hong Kong.<br \/>  \tC: xiang1 gang3.<br \/>  \tY: wo3 yao4 ji4 ge4 bao1 guo3 qu4 xiang1 gang3<br \/>  \tC: wo3 yao4 ji4 ge4 bao1 guo3 qu4 xiang1 gang3. I want to send a package to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation3:<br \/>  \tA\uff1a\u6211\u8981\u5bc4\u4e2a\u5305\u88f9\u3002<br \/>  \tB\uff1a\u5bc4\u5230\u54ea\uff1f<br \/>  \tA\uff1a\u5bc4\u5230\u9999\u6e2f\u3002<br \/>  \tC: Instead of remembering all this, maybe I should just email my letter!<br \/>  \tY:&nbsp; But then you wouldn&rsquo;t get any practice.<br \/>  \tC:&nbsp; Very true&hellip; let&rsquo;s get to our question of the day&hellip; how do you say &ldquo;post office&rdquo; in Chinese?&nbsp; Send your answer to Chinese@crifm.com and you might win a prize. Lucky listener.<br \/>  \tY:&nbsp; Mingtian jian!<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3346312776\"><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>C:&nbsp; Welcome to Chinese Studio, wo shi Cam.&nbsp;<br \/>\n  \tY:&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in only five minutes a day.&nbsp; Wo shi Yajie.&nbsp; Cam, do you ever send letters back to Canada?<br \/>\n  \tC:&nbsp; Well, Yajie, you see. I&rsquo;d like to, but I&rsquo;m not sure what to say to the clerk!<br \/>\n  \tY: Well, this week might help you then.&nbsp; Listen up!<\/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":[98],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-examination","tag-chinese-studio"],"views":132,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","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=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}