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Learn Chinese L8: Please speak more slowly.

Dachuan and Sun Dawei sit on the campus lawn. Dachuan asks Sun Dawei some questions. Dialogue One
zhè　shì　shén　me　yì　si
这　 是　　什　 么　 意　思？
What does this mean?
qǐng　màn　yì　diǎnr　shuō
请　　 慢　 一　点儿　说。
Please speak more slowly.

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Learn Chinese L5: What is the date today?

On a Sunday morning, Dachuan asks about the day and time, because he has a date with Li Mei. Dialogue One
jīn　tiān　xīnɡ qī　 jǐ
今　天　 星　期　几？
What day is it today?
jīn　tiān　xīnɡ qī　 rì
今　天　 星　期　日。
It's Sunday.
xīnɡ qī　 rì　　 jīn　tiān　 wǒ　hé　lǐ　méi　yǒu　yuē　huì　
星　期　日？！今　天　　我　 和　李　梅　 有　　约　 会！
xiàn zài　jǐ　diǎn　le
现　在　几　 点　 了？
Sunday?! I have a date with Li Mei! What time is it now?
bā　diǎn　èr　shí　sì　fēn
八　 点　 二　十　 四　分。
Eight twenty four.

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Chinese travel

Now, I learned Chinese in Beijing City, that means I learned my Chinese(汉语hànyǔ) with all the R’s, my first time hearing Chinese was in Beijing(北京Běijīng) and I kinda thought it sounded like a bunch of dogs barking. Ruf ruf ruf ruf ruf. But hey that’s how I started Chinese, so in 2009 when I came to Yangshuo to start teaching, and to learn Chinese, I wasn’t even remotely used to their Chinese. None of the R’s I fell in love with, or for that matter really good Mandarin. At that time hearing the difference between Northern Mandarin and Southern Mandarin was like hearing a true New Yorker speaking his form of English, and hearing someone from the deep deep South in a swamp in the middle of nowhere’s English.

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Lovesickness长相思

Lovesickness
Learn Chinese – Chinese Literature
—Li Bai I yearn for one
Who's in Changan.
In autumn crickets wail beside the golden rail;
The First frost, although light, invades the bed's delight.
My lonely lamp burns dull, of longing I would die;
Rolling up screens to view the moon, in vain I sigh.
My flower-like beauty is high
Up as clouds in the sky.
Above, the boundless heaven blue is seen;
Below, the endless river rolls its billows green.
My soul can't fly o'er sky so vast nor earth so wide;
In dreams I can't go through mofintain pass to her side.
We are so far apart,
The yearning breaks my heart.

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Tao Yao 诗经 桃夭

Tao Yao
Learn Chinese – Chinese Literature The peach tree is young and elegant ;
Brilliant are its flowers .
This young lady is going to her future home ,
And will order well her chamber and house .
The peach tree is young and elegant ;
Abundant will be its fruits .
This young lady is going to her future home ,
And will order well her chamber and house .
The peach tree is young and elegant ;
Luxuriant are its leaves .
This young lady is going to her future home ,
And will order well her family .

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