{"id":5829,"date":"2019-11-16T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-051-we-want-to-use-choposticks\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:28:58","slug":"lesson-051-we-want-to-use-choposticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/lesson-051-we-want-to-use-choposticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 051 We Want to Use Choposticks."},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Dajia hao. Huan ying nimen dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML.
S: Dajia hao, wo shi Stuart.<\/p>\n

M: \u4eca\u5929\u6211\u4eec\u5b66\u7b2c\u4e94\u5341\u4e00\u8bfedi wu shi yi ke. We’re ordering food. Can’t use our fingers, suoyi, so we’d better learn things like ‘chopsticks’, and ‘bowl’.<\/p>\n

S: ML wants to order – would you believe – eight dishes, ba ge cai.<\/p>\n

M: Tian a, I forgot! \u6211\u5fd8\u4e86 wo wang le. We also want a soup. \u6211\u4eec\u8fd8\u8981\u4e00\u4e2a\u6c64, women hai yao yi ge tang.<\/p>\n

S: So we need to use spoons. \u6240\u4ee5\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u8981\u7528\u52fa\u5b50, women yao yong shaozi.<\/p>\n

M: And bowls. \u6211\u4eec\u8fd8\u8981\u7528\u7897, women hai yao yong wan.<\/p>\n

S: \u6211\u4eec\u5403\u4e2d\u9910. So we need chopsticks, \u6240\u4ee5\u6211\u4eec\u8981\u7528\u7b77\u5b50, women yao yong kuaizi.<\/p>\n

M: We don’t use a knife and fork. \u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u7528\u5200\u53c9, women bu yong dao cha.<\/p>\n

S: But you can if you want.<\/p>\n

S: Now to go over the new stuff. We want a soup. \u6211\u4eec\u8981\u4e00\u4e2a\u6c64.<\/p>\n

M: Women yao yi ge tang. Women yao, we want, women yao. Yi ge tang, tang TANG tang, is ‘soup’. Women yao yi ge tang.<\/p>\n

S: \u6240\u4ee5\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u8981\u7528\u52fa\u5b50.<\/p>\n

M: Suoyi, women yao yong shaozi. \u7528YONG yong, is to ‘use’, yong. \u52fa\u5b50 SHAO ZI shaozi, ‘spoon’, shaozi. So we want to use spoons, suoyi, women yao yong shaozi.<\/p>\n

S: And we also need bowls. \u6211\u4eec\u8fd8\u8981\u7528\u7897.<\/p>\n

M: Women hai yao yong wan. \u7897WAN wan, ‘bowl’, as in soup bowl. Women hai yao yong wan.<\/p>\n

S: Women yao, we want. Women hai yao, ‘and we want’, or “and we also need’. Women hai yao yong wan. We also need bowls.<\/p>\n

M: \u6211\u4eec\u5403\u4e2d\u9910. So we need to use chopsticks. suoyi women yao yong kuaizi. \u7b77\u5b50KUAI ZI kuaizi, chopsticks. Say it, kuaizi, kuaizi.<\/p>\n

S: We don’t use a knife and fork. \u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u7528\u5200\u53c9.<\/p>\n

M: Women bu yong dao cha. \u5200DAO dao, is ‘knife’, dao. So what is \u53c9CHA cha? Dui le, fork. Dao cha, knife and fork, dao cha.<\/p>\n

S: So say, ‘we don’t use a knife and fork’. Dui le, women bu yong dao cha.<\/p>\n

M: \u6211\u4eec\u7528\u7b77\u5b50, women yong kuaizi.<\/p>\n

S: Hen hao. Now the dialogue again, and you can keep your fingers clean. ML yao dian ba ge cai.<\/p>\n

M: Tian a, wo wang le. Women hai yao yi ge tang.<\/p>\n

S: Suoyi, women yao yong shaozi.<\/p>\n

M: Women hai yao yong wan.<\/p>\n

S: Women chi zhongcan, suoyi women hai yao yong kuaizi.<\/p>\n

M: Women bu yong dao cha.<\/p>\n

S: Followed all this? Henhao! Now go<\/em>ngke time. Practice saying ‘I want to use …’ and ‘I don’t want to use … chopsticks, knife and fork, spoon – the utensils we’ve learnt.’<\/p>\n

M: Hao hao xue xi. Zai jian.
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