{"id":5850,"date":"2019-11-17T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-030-im-waiting-for-a-friend\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T05:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:01:21","slug":"lesson-030-im-waiting-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-030-im-waiting-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 030 I\u2019m Waiting for A Friend."},"content":{"rendered":"
S: \u670b\u53cb\u4eec,\u4f60\u4eec\u597d! \u6211\u662fStuart.
M: Wo shi ML. \u6b22\u8fce\u6765\u5230Learn Chinese Now. Let’s not waste time. \u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u8981\u6d6a\u8d39\u65f6\u95f4. women bu yao langfei shijian. Repeat everything, and, yi er san. Kaishi!
S: Now listen for the Chinese for ‘tell’ and ‘friends’.
M: Stuart, please tell our friends what time it is. \u8bf7\u544a\u8bc9\u6211\u4eec\u7684\u670b\u53cb\u4eec, \u73b0\u5728\u662f\u51e0\u70b9\u949f. Qing gaosu women de pengyoumen xianzai shi jidian zhong.
S: \u670b\u53cb\u4eec,\u73b0\u5728\u662f\u516d\u70b9. Pengyoumen, xianzai shi liu dian.
M: Please tell our friends wher we are now. \u8bf7\u544a\u8bc9\u6211\u4eec\u7684\u670b\u53cb\u4eec\u73b0\u5728\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u54ea\u513f.
S: \u670b\u53cb\u4eec\uff0c\u73b0\u5728\u6211\u4eec\u5728\u6211\u7684\u623f\u95f4. Pengyoumen, xianzai women zai wo de fangjian.
M: We’re waiting for a friend. \u6211\u4eec\u5728\u7b49\u4e00\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: Then we’ll go to the bar. \u7136\u540e\u6211\u4eec\u53bb\u9152\u5427\u3002Ranhou women qu jiuba. Wo hen gaoxing.
M: Ok, Stuart, first we have to check the new words.
S: Ok. Let’s not waste time. \u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u8981\u6d6a\u8d39\u65f6\u95f4
M: women bu yao langfei shijian. Bu yao, literally ‘not want’, bu yao. But it actually means "don’t". Langfei LANGFEI langfei, to ‘waste’. Shijian SHIJIAN shijian, is ‘time’.
S: So, pengyoumen, try to say, with no help from us, ‘waste time’. … Dui le, langfei shijian. Langfei shijian.
M: Now try, let’s not waste time…….. Hen hao. Women bu yao lang fei shijian. \u518d\u6765\u4e00\u6b21. o<\/em>nce again. Zai lai yi ci. Women bu yao lang fei shijian.
S: And did you catch how we say ‘friends’? Right. Pengyoumen, pengyoumen.
M: Now, if ‘we’ is women, and ‘I’ is wo, if ‘they’ is tamen, and ‘he’ or ‘she’ is ta, and if pengyoumen means ‘friends’, then how do we say ‘friend’? Right, pengyou, PENGYOU, pengyou, 2nd tone, 3rd tone, pengyou. Say it, pengyou, pengyou.
S: Hen hao. Now, do you remember ML saying?
M: And we’re waiting for a friend. \u6211\u4eec\u5728\u7b49\u4e00\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: And do you remember, way back in lesson 1, that we told you Chinese has lots of classifiers, like head of cattle, wher ‘head’ is the classifier? And how we always say, one ge person, or three ge persons. By the way, you can also call classifiers ‘measure words’, same idea.
M: Well, we’ve already used ge. Remember \u6253\u4e2a\u7535\u8bdd\uff0cmake a phone call, da ge dianhua. Well, the ge here is the measure word for ‘phone call’.
S: Now listen again to ML say, ‘we’re waiting for a friend’.
M: \u6211\u4eec\u5728\u7b49\u4e00\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: There’s the ge again. Can you guess how to say ‘three friends"?
M: Dui le. \u4e09\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb. San ge pengyou.
S: And four friends?
M: Right. \u56db\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb,si ge pengyou.
S: Five friends.
M: \u4e94\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb wu ge pengyou.
S: Enough, enough! \u591f\u4e86,\u591f\u4e86! That’s enough friends.
M: So, pengyoumen, see you tomorrow. \u660e\u5929\u89c1.
S: Mingtian jian
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