{"id":5882,"date":"2019-11-18T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-011-let-039-s-go-to-the-friendship-hotel\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:23:18","slug":"lesson-011-let-039-s-go-to-the-friendship-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-011-let-039-s-go-to-the-friendship-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 011 Let's Go to the Friendship Hotel."},"content":{"rendered":"
M: \u5927\u5bb6\u597d\uff01\u6211\u662fML!
S: dajia hao! Wo shi Stuart.
M: Pencil and paper ready? Hao! \u8bf7\uff0cPlease, q\u01d0ng, say the Chinese out loud with us. We’ll repeat most things.
S: First, let’s hear the dialogue of the last lesson. But we’ll change one or two words. Listen carefully.
M: Stuart, \u4f60\u7684\u884c\u674e\u592a\u591a\u4e86. Ni de xingli tai duo le.
S: Wo tongyi. \u6211\u7684\u884c\u674e\u592a\u591a\u4e86. Wode xingli tài duo le.
M: \u4f60\u7684\u884c\u674e\u4e5f\u592a\u91cd\u4e86\u3002 Ni de xingli y\u011b tai zhòng le.
S: Shide, wo de xingli ye tai zhòng le. Wo de xingli ye tai zhòng le.
M: Tin a, oh dear, his luggage is too heavy. ta de xingli tai zhòng le.
S: But last lesson my xingli was tài chén, too heavy. Xianzai it’s tài zhòng. Zhòng shi shenme yisi? What does zhòng mean\uff1f Zhòng shi shenme yisi?
M: Xingli tài zhòng, hé xingli tài chén. \u4e00\u6837\uff0cyíyàng, the same, yíyàng, YI YANG, yíyàng, 2nd tone, 4th tone, yíyàng.
S: Ah, so chén and zhòng both mean ‘heavy’, but chén is a bit more colloquial. Now the dialogue again, no repetition, and faster.
M: Ready. Stuart, ni de xingli tai duo le.
S: Wo tongyi. Wode xingli tài duo le.
M: Ni de xingli y\u011b tai zhong le.
S: Shide, wo de xingli tai chen le. Wo de xingli tai chen le.
M: \u5f88\u597d!
S: We’re STILL at the airport. Women hai zai jichang. Now mimic this short chat.
M: \u6211\u4eec\u8d70\u5427\u3002\u6211\u6253\u8f66, wo da che.
S: \u597d\uff0c\u4f60\u6253\u8f66\u3002Ni da che, \u6211\u6253\u7535\u8bdd, wo da dianhua.
M: wo da che. Wo da che. D\u01ce DA DA d\u01ce, means to ‘hit’, d\u01ce. Ch\u0113 CHE CHE ch\u0113 ch\u0113. Say it ch\u0113, ch\u0113, 1st tone, che, means ‘vehicle’. But when we say "da che", it doesn’t mean "hit a vehicle", it means ‘get a taxi’. Wo da che, I’ll get a cab.
S: This is very common in Chinese. One word, like d\u01ce, can have several different meanings. For example, I also said, Wo da dian hua. Wo da dianhua. Diàn DIAN DIAN diàn, electricity, or electric. Diàn. Huà HUA HUA, hua, words. Guess what electric words means. Yes, telephone, dianhua. Another compound word. Da dianhua. Hit the phone? Well, kind of, it means ‘make a telephone call’. Da dianhua.
M: And usually we put the common classifier gè GE gè in front of it. D\u01ce ge dianhua. Listen and repeat. Stuart, \u6211\u53bb\u6253\u8f66\u3002Wo qu da che. \u4f60\u53bb\u54ea\u513f\uff1fni qu na’er?
S: Wo qu da ge dianhua. Wo qu da ge dianhua.
M: Hao, ni qu da ge dianhua. Ni qu da ge dianhua.
S: Follow everything? \u975e\u5e38\u597d\u3002
M: Stuart’s finished phoning. \u8f66\u6765\u4e86, ch\u0113 lái le. The taxi’s here. Che lai le.
S: Na hen hao. Che lai le. And here’s the driver.
Taxi Driver: \u4f60\u4eec\u53bb\u54ea\u513f\uff1fnimen qu na’er?
M: \u6211\u4eec\u53bb\u53cb\u8c0a\u5bbe\u9986, wo men qu youyi binguan. We’re going to the Friendship Hotel. Youyi bin’guan.
TD: \u6ca1\u95ee\u9898\u3002No problem. Méi wèntí.
S: Maybe we’re finally leaving the jichang!
M: We’ll see in the next lesson. Zaijian.
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