{"id":5839,"date":"2019-11-16T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-041-wher-101-are-you-from\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:59:20","slug":"lesson-041-wher-101-are-you-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-041-wher-101-are-you-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 041 wher&#101; Are You From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>M: Pengyoumen, huanying dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML <br \/>  S: Wo shi Stuart. We&rsquo;re in the bar with Mary and Li xiansheng. Mary is a teacher, laoshi, and some of her foreign students are joining us. I wo<em><\/em>nder wher they&rsquo;re from? Try to pick out \u5b66\u751f XUE SHENG, xuesheng, which means &lsquo;student&rsquo;. <br \/>  MARY: My students are here! \u6211\u7684\u5b66\u751f\u6765\u4e86, wo de xuesheng lai le. <br \/>  FOREIGNERS: Hi Mary, hi guys. Ni men hao! <br \/>  MARY: They&rsquo;re all learning Putonghua. \u4ed6\u4eec\u90fd\u5728\u5b66\u666e\u901a\u8bdd\uff0ctamen dou zai xue putonghua. Hey guys, let me introduce Zhao Manli and Stuart. \u8ba9\u6211\u4ecb\u7ecd\u8d75\u66fc\u4e3d\u548cStuart, rang wo jieshao Zhao Manli he Stuart. You know Mr. Li. \u4f60\u4eec\u8ba4\u8bc6\u674e\u5148\u751f, nimen renshi Li xiansheng. <br \/>  S\/ML: Nimen hao! <br \/>  M: We want to ask Mali de xuesheng what natio<em><\/em>nality they are. <br \/>  S: One way of asking this is, \u4f60\u662f\u54ea\u56fd\u4eba? <br \/>  M: \u54ea\u56fd\u4eba. Na, NA, na, which. Na guo, which country. Ren REN ren, ren, is person. So &lsquo;Ni shi na guo ren?&rsquo; You are which country person? Ni shi na guo ren. Say it, everybody. Ni shi na guo ren? <br \/>  S: Hen hao. By the way, some people say NEI instead of Na. Nei is more colloquial. Now, try to pick out the words for Canadian, American and British. <br \/>  MARY: This is Bill. \u8fd9\u662fBill, zhe shi Bill.<\/p>\n<p>  M: Bill, ni hao! \u4f60\u662f\u54ea\u56fd\u4eba, ni shi na guo ren? <br \/>  BILL: Canadian.\u6211\u662f\u52a0\u62ff\u5927\u4eba, wo shi Jianada ren. <br \/>  M: Jianada ren. <br \/>  MARY: Zhe shi Susanna. <br \/>  S: Ni hao! \u4f60\u662f\u54ea\u56fd\u4eba, ni shi nei guo ren? <br \/>  SUSANNA: American, \u6211\u662f\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\uff0c wo shi Meiguo ren. <br \/>  MARY: Zhe shi Violet. <br \/>  M: Violet, ni hao. \u4f60\u662f\u54ea\u56fd\u4eba, ni shi nei guo ren? <br \/>  VIOLET: British. \u6211\u662f\u82f1\u56fd\u4eba, wo shi Yingguo ren. <br \/>  M: Na hao. Yi ge Jianada ren, yi ge Meiguo ren, he yi ge Yingguo ren. Altogether, yi gong, san ge ren. <br \/>  S: Let&rsquo;s see if you&rsquo;re still concentrating! If ren is person, and jianada ren means &lsquo;a Canadian&rsquo;, what does Jianada mean? <br \/>  M: Dui le. Canada, \u52a0\u62ff\u5927JIA&rsquo;NADA jianada. Say Canada, then Canadian. Right. Jianada, jianadaren. <br \/>  S: And America is \u7f8e\u56fd, literally, &lsquo;beautiful country&rsquo;, meiguo MEI GUO meiguo. 3rd tone 2nd tone. Try it, meiguo, meiguo. Now, American. Meiguo ren, meiguo ren. Hen mei! Beautiful. Hen mei, hen mei. <br \/>  M: And we&rsquo;ve already learnt Britain, or England: \u82f1\u56fd, yingguo, and Yingguo ren, yingguo ren. <br \/>  S: And we have lots of Aussies, Kiwis, and Irish here. So, and try to get the to<em><\/em>nes right&hellip;. <br \/>  M: Australia. \u6fb3\u5927\u5229\u4e9aAO DA LI YA, aodiliya, aodiliya. <br \/>  S: New Zealand. \u65b0\u897f\u5170XIN XI LAN, xinxilan, xinxilan. <br \/>  M: Ireland. \u7231\u5c14\u5170AI ER LAN, aierlan, aierlan. <br \/>  S: And now its gongke, homework time. <br \/>  M: Write out in pinyin, I am Canadian, wo shi jianada ren, or use your own country if you know it. <br \/>  S: Then write out he is, American, Australian, Irish, British, and, a New Zealander or New Zealanders. <br \/>  M: Then ask different questions: &lsquo;what natio<em><\/em>nality are you , he or she, and they?&rsquo; And give all the different answers you can think of, I, we, they, etc., and out loud. Very im<em><\/em>portant. <br \/>  S: Out loud. 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