{"id":5858,"date":"2019-11-17T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-022-can-you-speak-chinese-now\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:54:09","slug":"lesson-022-can-you-speak-chinese-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-022-can-you-speak-chinese-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 022 Can You Speak Chinese Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Ni hao! \u73b0\u5728\u5b66\u6c49\u8bed\u3002Now learn Hanyu, with Learn Chinese Now! Woshi ML.
S: Woshi Stuart.
M: And Stuart is using my shouji to talk with Mary. She’s just picked up the phone.
MY: Who is this? \u60a8\u662f\u54ea\u4f4d? Nín shì n\u01cewèi?
S: W\u01d2 shì Stuart.
M: Now listen to and repeat each bit of the rest of their chat. Try to guess the meaning. I’ll give you three clues: yì diándi\u01cen means ‘a little’, ‘zài lù shang’ means ‘on the road’, and s\u0101n di\u01cen means ‘ 3 o’clock’. Mary is a bit surprised, because it seems Stuart can speak Chinese now.
MY: Stuart,\u73b0\u5728\u4f60\u4f1a\u8bf4\u6c49\u8bed\u4e86\u5417? Xiànzài n\u01d0 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4 le ma?
S: Y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen. Y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen. W\u01d2 zh\u01d0 huì shu\u014d y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen. W\u01d2 zh\u01d0 huì shu\u014d y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen.
MY: Tài h\u01ceo le! Tài h\u01ceo le! \u4f60\u5728\u54ea\u513f\uff1fN\u01d0 zài n\u01cer?
S: \u6211\u548cML\u5728\u8def\u4e0a\u3002W\u01d2 hé Manli zài lù shang. W\u01d2men zài lù shàng. Women qu y\u01d2uyì bin’guan. Women qu y\u01d2uyì bin’guan.
MY: \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u5230? N\u01d0men j\u01d0di\u01cen dào?
S: \u4e09\u70b9. s\u0101n di\u01cen. s\u0101n di\u01cen zh\u014dng.
M: Right! Let’s learn the new stuff. Mary said:
MY: Stuart! xiànzài n\u01d0 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4 le ma?
M: n\u01d0 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4. n\u01d0 huì, huìHUI huì, means ‘can’, ‘able to’. N\u01d0 huì shu\u014d. shu\u014d SHUO shuo, means ‘speak’. N\u01d0 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4. Now, you at home try to say, ‘I can speak Chinese’. ….. H\u011bnh\u01ceo. I can speak Chinese, w\u01d2 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4. w\u01d2 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4. Now, back to what Mary said.
MY: xiànzài n\u01d0 huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4 le ma?
M: huì shu\u014d hàny\u01d4 le ma? The little ‘le’ indicates that something has been achieved. Here, it’s learning Chinese. The ‘ma’ makes it a question, albeit a rhetorical question. Modest Stuart replied:
S: Y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen.
M: Yi diandian. A little. YI DIAN DIAN. Yi diandian.
S: W\u01d2 zh\u01d0 huì shu\u014d y\u012b di\u01cen di\u01cen. I o<\/em>nly can speak a little.
M: zh\u01d0, ZHI, third tone, means only. So all together, the whole sentence.
S: Wo zhi hui shuo yi diandian. Wo zhi hui shuo yi diandian.
M: Now Mary asks, ‘wher are you?’
MY: \u4f60\u5728\u54ea\u513f\uff1f
S: \u6211\u548cML\u5728\u8def\u4e0a\u3002
M: W\u01d2men zài lù shàng. lù LU lù, means ‘road’. Shàng SHANG shàng, means ‘on’. ‘We’re on the road’ , Women zai lu shang. Zai lu shang.
S: Going to the Friendship Hotel.
M: qù y\u01ceuy\u012b bin’guan. qù y\u01d2uy\u012b bin’guan.
MY: \u4f60\u4eec\u51e0\u70b9\u949f\u5230?
M: jídi\u01cenzh\u014dng dao? jídi\u01cen, JI DIAN jídi\u01cen, is ‘what time?’, jidian. Add zhong ZHONG zhong, and we get ‘jidian zhong, which means exactly the same. jídi\u01cen, jídi\u01cen zh\u014dng, y\u012b yàng. Dào is ‘to arrive’. So what does ‘n\u01d0men jídi\u01cen zh\u014dng dào’ mean? Right, ‘what time will you arrive?’
S: S\u0101n di\u01cen. S\u0101n di\u01cen zh\u014dng.
M: Guess what ‘s\u0101n di\u01cen zh\u014dng’ means. Remember 1 2 3, y\u012b èr s\u0101n. Right, san dian zhong is ‘ o’clock’.
S: And s\u0101n di\u01cen means the same. S\u0101n di\u01cen, s\u0101n di\u01cen zh\u014dng, yi yang.
M: Which is a good time to finish today’s lesson. zaijian.
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