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Learn Chinese with ChineseClass101.com. After feeling stupefied when the Chinese taxi driver tells you that your latest and greatest Apple phone is a knock-off, you need to vent. You arrive at your friends’ house and immediately tell him in Chinese, “My Apple is a knock-off!” Your friend seems unfazed, which makes you even angrier. You ask your friend why he is so nonchalant, and he explains that here in mainland China, most high-tech phones are knock-offs, so it doesn’t surprise him at all. You can’t believe your luck in China. What next? Is your dog a fake too?

Learning Chinese with ChineseClass101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Chinese. In this Chinese Elementary lesson, we will teach you a Chinese structural particle, which will help you tell everyone about the knock-offs you bought while visiting China. What knock-offs are you looking forward to buying? Think about it and then come back to ChineseClass101.com for more fantastic lessons.



This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Elementary Season 2 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Elementary Lesson S2 #18 - The Chinese Knock-Off Phone”

ChineseClass101.com says:

Have you intentionally or by mistake bought a counterfeit product from China?

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Chris says:

It seems like the PDF transcript for this lesson is missing the vocabulary section. Also I didn’t find the Hanzi closeup.

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Jane says:

Hi Chris
Thanks for the note. There was a little bit of technical issue and all fixed now. Enjoy your lesson.

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Chris says:

Great, Thanks!

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蓝大卫 says:

Does the word 捡 jiǎn “to pick up” have the same range of meanings as in English?
Can one use 捡 as in “I will pick you up at 6 PM?”

or “He likes to pick up girls at bars”?

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Jane says:

Hi 蓝大卫,
It’s a very good question to ask. “捡” in Chinese has a rather narrow meaning. The most commone meaning for it is to pick up something off the ground. Sometimes you hear people say “他捡了个大便宜”tā jiǎn le ge dà biànyì . It means “”he picked up a real bargin!
For picking up someone from somewhere, we use “接”jiē, such as “我六点来接你”wǒ liù diǎn lái jiē nǐ 。
As for picking up girls from the bar, hmmm… “他经常在酒吧里和女孩子搭讪” tā jīngcháng zài jiǔbā lǐ hé nǚháizi dāshàn。 “搭讪” here means to chat up.

Ok?

Regards,
Jane

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