{"id":5855,"date":"2019-11-17T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-025-whats-your-room-number\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T09:56:35","slug":"lesson-025-whats-your-room-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/lesson-025-whats-your-room-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 025 What\u2019s Your Room Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"
S: Da jia hao. xiànzài Hu\u0101nyíng n\u01d0  lái xué Hanyu, Learn Chinese Now. W\u01d2 shì Stuart.
M: Wo shi ML.
S: And we dive right in. At the end of the previous lesson we asked you to say the numbers from 1 to 99.
M: Let’s try a few. You say the Chinese. 28 – dui le. èr shí b\u0101. 44– dui le, sì shí sì. 56 – w\u01d4 shí liù.
S: Feichang hao. Wonderful. Time to get back to the Youyi Bin’guan – the Friendship Hotel.
M: Lots of time to practice numbers and mo<\/em>ney in the bar later.
S: Taxi fare’s paid. wher do I check in? \u6211\u5728\u54ea\u513f\u767b\u8bb0? Wo zài n\u01cer d\u0113ngjì?
M: There. \u5728\u90a3\u513f\u3002Zài n\u01cer.
S: Ok, I’ll go register. \u6211\u53bb\u767b\u8bb0. W\u01d2 qù d\u0113ngjì.
M: Stuart goes to the front desk. They speak English, so we’ll have a very brief check-in. Then we’ll go over the new stuff.
S: Ni hao!
DESK: \u60a8\u597d. Your family name, please. \u60a8\u8d35\u59d3? Nín guì xìng?
S: Wo xing Parkins. Wo xing Parkins. My given name is Stuart. \u6211\u7684\u540d\u5b57\u662fStuart. W\u01d2 de míngzi shì Stuart.
DESK: Let’s have a look. \u6211\u770b\u4e00\u770b.W\u01d2 kàn y\u012b kàn. Found it. \u627e\u5230\u4e86. Zh\u01ceo dào le. Your room number is 1 4 8 9. \u60a8\u7684\u623f\u95f4\u53f7\u7801\u662f\u5e7a\u56db\u516b\u4e5d. Nín de fángji\u0101n hàom\u01ce shì y\u0101o sì b\u0101 ji\u01d4.
S: Great. I have a room. A fángji\u0101n!
M: Now let’s translate.
S: W\u01d2 qù d\u0113ngjì
M: D\u0113ngjì DENG JI d\u0113ngjì, to check in, or register, dengji.
S: I go to check in.W\u01d2 qù d\u0113ngjì.
DESK: \u60a8\u8d35\u59d3?
M: Nín guì xìng? Guì GUI guì here means ‘noble’. Xìng XING xìng, 4th tone, is ‘family name’. Nin gui xing. A polite way to say, ‘What is your family name?’ Nín guì xìng?
S: My family name ‘Parkins’. W\u01d2 xìng Parkins. My given name is Stuart. W\u01d2 de míngzi shì Stuart.
M: Míngzi, MING ZI, ming zi. Given name.
S: My given name is Stuart. W\u01d2 de míngzi shì Stuart.
DESK: ‘Let’s have a look’, or ‘I’ll check’. W\u01d2 kàn y\u012b kàn.
M: kàn KAN kàn, is to ‘see’ or ‘look’. I’ll check, wo kan yi kan.
DESK: \u627e\u5230\u4e86.
M: Zh\u01ceo dào le. The zh\u01ceo is like the zh\u01ceo in zh\u01ceo shéi, ‘who are you looking for?’. Zh\u01ceo, to ‘look for’, zh\u01ceo dào le. Found it! Zh\u01ceo dào le!
DESK: Nín de fángji\u0101n hàom\u01ce shì y\u0101o sì b\u0101 ji\u01d4.
M: ‘Room’ is fángji\u0101n FANG JIAN fangjian. Remember ‘telephone number’? Duì le, diànhuà hàom\u01ce. So what is ‘room number’? Right, it’s fángji\u0101n h\u01ceom\u01ce. Fangjian haoma.
S: So, my fáng ji\u0101n hào m\u01ce is 1489. W\u01d2 de fángji\u0101n hàom\u01ce shì y\u0101o sì b\u0101 ji\u01d4.
M: And to finish, try to follow the dialogue again:
S: Wo zài n\u01cer d\u0113ngjì?
M: \u5728\u90a3\u513f.
S: Hao, w\u01d2 qù d\u0113ngji. Ni hao!
DESK: \u60a8\u597d. Nín guì xìng?
S: Wo xing Bái. \u6211\u7684\u540d\u5b57\u662fStuart. W\u01d2 de míngzi shì Stuart.
DESK:\u6211\u770b\u4e00\u770b.W\u01d2 kàn y\u012b kàn. \u627e\u5230\u4e86. Zh\u01ceo dào le.\u60a8\u7684\u623f\u95f4\u53f7\u7801\u662f\u5e7a\u56db\u516b\u4e5d. Nín de fángji\u0101n hàom\u01ce shì y\u0101o sì b\u0101 ji\u01d4.
S: Great. But no key, \u6ca1\u6709\u94a5\u5319\uff0c méi y\u01d2u yàosh\u01d0.
M: Will Stuart get yàosh\u01d0, a key yàosh\u01d0, next lesson? Let’s wait and see.
S: zaijian.
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