Tag: teacher

 M: Pengyoumen, huanying dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML
S: Wo shi Stuart. We’re in the bar with Mary and Li xiansheng. Mary is a teacher, laoshi, and some of her foreign students are joining us. I wonder where they’re from? Try to pick out 学生 XUE SHENG, xuesheng, which means ‘student’.
MARY: My students are here! 我的学生来了, wo de xuesheng lai le.
FOREIGNERS: Hi Mary, hi guys. Ni men hao!
MARY: They’re all learning Putonghua. 他们都在学普通话，tamen dou zai xue putonghua. Hey guys, let me introduce Zhao Manli and Stuart. 让我介绍赵曼丽和Stuart, rang wo jieshao Zhao Manli he Stuart. You know Mr. Li. 你们认识李先生, nimen renshi Li xiansheng.
S/ML: Nimen hao!
M: We want to ask Mali de xuesheng what nationality they are.
S: One way of asking this is, 你是哪国人?
M: 哪国人. Na, NA, na, which. Na guo, which country. Ren REN ren, ren, is person. So ‘Ni shi na guo ren?’ You are which country person? Ni shi na guo ren. Say it, everybody. Ni shi na guo ren?
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.
MARY: This is Bill. 这是Bill, zhe shi Bill.

 S: Dajia hao. Huan ying dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi Stuart.
M: Nimen hao, wo shi ML.
S: ML, would you believe it, this is our 44th lesson! ‘Lesson’ in Putonghua is ke KE ke 4th tone, ke. I wonder how many of our listeners can say ‘lesson 44’, or, as it goes in Chinese, ‘44th lesson’.
M: Well, some lessons back we learnt to say 1st di yi ge, like in ‘1st question’ di yi ge wenti. And 2nd di er ge, as in di er ge wenti, and so on. So now you can say “44th lesson’ ‘lesson 44. Try it. Dui le! 第四十四课, di si shi si ke.
S: Now say, ‘today is lesson 44’.
M: dui le. 今天是第四十四课, jin tian shi di si shi si ke.
M: Di si shi si ke shi yi ge fuxi ke. What does that mean?
S: Dui le. Lesson 44 is a revision lesson. Fuxi ke, fuxi ke. So now try to say, ‘today we have a revision lesson’.
M: Hen hao, nimen dou hen congming. ‘Today we have a revision lesson’ is 今天我们有一个复习课, jin tian women you yi ge fuxi ke.
S: Revision, with a few new things.
S: Remember 第四十一课， lesson 41, di si shi yi ke. In the jiuba with Mary and Li xiansheng. Mali shi ge laoshi, Mary’s a teacher. Her foreign students came. 她的外国学生来了.
Hear the word for ‘foreign’? Listen again.
M: Ta de waiguo xuesheng lai le.
S: Duile. Waiguo wai WAI wai, 4th tone, here means ‘outside’. Guo GUO guo, as in Zhongguo, means ‘country’. Waiguo, foreign.
M: Foreign student, or students. 外国学生, waiguo xuesheng.
S: Two countries we’ve learnt. We say the English, you say the Chinese on your own, then with us. Ready?
M: Australia. Aodaliya.
S: New Zealand. Xinxilan
M: Now on your own say, ‘what nationality is he?’ And answer, “he is a Canadian.” Dui le. Ta shi nei guo ren? Ta shi Jia’nadaren.
S: Now say she is American. Ta shi Meiguoren.
M: Hen hao.
M: And in 第四十三课, lesson 43, di si shi san ke, we learnt.
S: 我饿了, I’m hungry, wo e le, wo feichang e.
M: So we’ll immediately go and eat. 我们马上去吃饭， women mashang qu chi fan.
S: Now, try to answer this question, and tell us you are not hungry. No help from us. Well, just a little help. First listen to this Q & A.
M: Stuart, 你累吗, ni lei ma?
S: 我不累, wo bu lei.
M: Now your question. 你饿, ni e ma?
S: Dui le. 我不饿, wo bu e.
M: But I am, so we have to finish now.
S: Ok, I’ll go for a snack. See you next lesson. Zaijian.