{"id":5888,"date":"2019-11-18T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-005-are-you-tired\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:16:37","slug":"lesson-005-are-you-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-005-are-you-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 005 Are You Tired?"},"content":{"rendered":"
S: \u5927\u5bb6\u597d\uff01Is everybody ok? Dajia hao. Huanying, Welcome to LCN. Wo shi S., I’m S, and …..
M: Wo shi ML.
S: Are all our listeners repeating all the Chinese, ML?
M: I’m sure they are.
S: \u90a3\u597d\u3002That’s good. Nà h\u01ceo. Nà h\u01ceo. Two questions, ML, what will we learn today, and wher are we?
M: We’ll learn one way of ASKING A QUESTION; how to say VERY, and NOT, as in not good. We’ll also learn to say WE or US, YOU (plural), and HE or SHE, and THEY, or THEM. And wher are we? We are still at the airport.
S: Been here for days! ML asks me a question. Try to guess the meaning.
M: Stuart, \u4f60\u7d2f\u5417\uff1fn\u01d0 lèi ma?
S: \u662f\u7684\uff0c\u6211\u5f88\u7d2f. Shi de, w\u01d2 lèi.
M: Guessed the meaning? Listen to how TIRED Stuart is. \u4f60\u7d2f\u5417?
S: \u662f\u7684\uff0c\u6211\u5f88\u7d2f.
M: N\u01d0, You. Lèi LEI lèi. lei, of course means tired. Ni lei, you tired. Put a little ma MA ma on the end, and you have a question. \u4f60\u7d2f\u5417?
S: shi de, wo hen lei! Shi de, wo hen lei.
M: shide, shide, at the beginning of a sentence, means right or yes. w\u01d2WO w\u01d2, w\u01d2 means I, or me. W\u01d2. W\u01d2 h\u011bn lèi. I’m very tired. W\u01d2 h\u011bn lèi. W\u01d2 h\u011bn lèi. H\u011bn HEN h\u011bn, means very. Like in h\u011bn hao, very good. Wo hen lei. I’m very tired.
M: Stuart, ni lei ma?
S: \u662f\u7684\uff0c\u6211\u5f88\u7d2f\u3002
M: And now we’re both tired.
S\/M \u6211\u4eec\u5f88\u7d2f\u3002
M: Say it, everybody. W\u01d2 men h\u011bn lèi. W\u01d2 men h\u011bn lèi.
S: So we need a few seco<\/em>nds break.
S: Ok, we’ve recovered. We’re not tired now.
M: \u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u7d2f\u3002We are not tired. Say it everybody. W\u01d2 men bú lèi.
S: Bù BU bù, means not, bú lèi. Not tired.
M: Stuart, and you people at home, say, bu4 lei4. Both words in the 4th tone. Bù lèi
S: Ok. Bù lèi.
M: Notice anything?
S: Kind of difficult to pronounce. Bú lèi, bú lei, 2nd tone then 4th tone is much easier.
M: You’re right. The BU sound bu , meaning not, is really a 4th tone word. But when it’s in front of another 4th tone word, it changes to the 2nd tone.
S: Agreed. Listen to the difference between Not Tired, and Not Good. Don’t forget to repeat them.
M: Bú lèi, bú lèi. Bù h\u01ceo, bù h\u01ceo.
S: Get it? \u5f88\u597d\u3002Very good. Actually, a change of tone to make something easier to pro<\/em>nounce is quite common in Chinese. It comes naturally. For example, \u4f60 ni\uff0c ‘you’ is third tone. But I bet none of you have been saying n\u01d0 h\u01ceo. It’s awkward. Like us, you’ve been saying n\u01d0h\u01ceo – the n\u01d0 changes to 2nd tone. As I said, changes like this come naturally. Just mimic us, and you’ll do fine.
M: \u5bf9 duì, correct. But now maybe you at home are tired. I’ll ask you: N\u01d0 lèi ma? N\u01d0 lèi ma?
S: I heard, ‘w\u01d2 h\u011bn lèi. wo hen lei’.
M: So did I. So let’s call it a day.
S: \u6211\u4e0d\u540c\u610f\uff01w\u01d2 bù tóng yì! I disagree! W\u01d2 bù tóng yì!
M: N\u01d0 bù tong yì?! W\u01d2 h\u011bn sh\u0113ng qì! I’m very angry! \u6211\u5f88\u751f\u6c14\uff01
S: Tian na! Ta hen sheng qi. H\u01ceo, w\u01d2 tong yì. Ok, I agree.
M: So, till the next lesson, zaijian.
S: zaijian. 
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