Learn the Chinese verb meaning "to want"
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Anthony: Welcome to chineseclass101. I am Anthony. |
| Echo: 嗨，大家好，我是Echo. (Hāi, dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì Echo.) |
| Anthony: Today we have our fifth lesson in our second season of our beginner series titled, The Tastiest Drink in China. This dialogue is taking place in a restaurant. It is an exchange between a customer and a waiter and the waiter is asking the customer, what do you want to drink? |
| Echo: Yep. |
| Anthony: This is a really casual dialogue and I actually have one of my favorite words at the end of this. We will go into that later. |
| Echo: Yep. |
| Anthony: Before we go to the dialogue however, I want to tell you about my favorite part of chineseclass101 and that is the video vocab lessons. |
| Echo: Why is that? |
| Anthony: Video vocab lessons combine a word with a picture. That’s how my brain works and that’s how I remember new vocabulary. With that said, let’s go to the dialogue. |
| DIALOGUE |
| 你想喝什么？(Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?) |
| 可乐。(Kělè.) |
| 要冰吗？(Yào bīng ma?) |
| 随便。(Suíbiàn.) |
| David: One more time, a bit slower. |
| 你想喝什么？(Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?) |
| 可乐。(Kělè.) |
| 要冰吗？(Yào bīng ma?) |
| 随便。(Suíbiàn.) |
| David: One more time, with English. |
| 你想喝什么？(Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?) |
| What do you want to drink? |
| 可乐。(Kělè.) |
| Cola. |
| 要冰吗？(Yào bīng ma?) |
| Do you want ice? |
| 随便。(Suíbiàn.) |
| Whatever. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Anthony: Echo, this is a great dialogue. However I have one problem. |
| Echo: What? |
| Anthony: Nobody has ever asked me if I want ice. |
| Echo: In China. |
| Anthony: In China. |
| Echo: Yeah because in China, we prefer you know warm drinks. |
| Anthony: I know. I love cold drinks though. Anyways, we have a bunch of vocabulary that’s going to be dealing with all about drinks. |
| Echo: Yep. |
| Anthony: So let’s get right to it. |
| Anthony: And now the vocab section. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Echo: 喝 (hē) |
| Anthony: To drink. |
| Echo: 喝, 喝. 可乐 (hē, hē. kělè) |
| Anthony: Cola. |
| Echo: 可乐, 可乐. 雪碧 (kělè, kělè. xuěbì) |
| Anthony: Sprite. |
| Echo: 雪碧, 雪碧. 冰 (xuěbì, xuěbì. bīng) |
| Anthony: Ice. |
| Echo: 冰, 冰. 果汁 (bīng, bīng. guǒzhī) |
| Anthony: Juice. |
| Echo: 果汁, 果汁. 水 (guǒzhī, guǒzhī. shuǐ) |
| Anthony: Water |
| Echo: 水, 水. 咖啡 (shuǐ, shuǐ. kāfēi) |
| Anthony: Coffee. |
| Echo: 咖啡, 咖啡. 茶 (kāfēi, kāfēi. chá) |
| Anthony: Tea |
| Echo: 茶, 茶. 啤酒 (chá, chá. píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: Beer. |
| Echo: 啤酒, 啤酒. 随便 (píjiǔ, píjiǔ. suíbiàn) |
| Anthony: Whatever. |
| Echo: 随便, 随便. (suíbiàn, suíbiàn.) |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Anthony: In today’s vocab focus, we are going to be talking about different types of drinks and Echo, I’ve been telling you that I have a new, New Year’s resolution. |
| Echo: Yes. |
| Anthony: And that is to drink more healthy. |
| Echo: Sounds good. |
| Anthony: So today we made two lists. One on list are healthy drinks, on the other are unhealthy drinks. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: So what I am going to do is try to stay true to my New Year’s resolution. |
| Echo: Okay. |
| Anthony: So our first drink is cola. |
| Echo: 可乐 (kělè) |
| Anthony: One more time |
| Echo: 可乐 (kělè) |
| Anthony: And that’s a third tone, fourth tone. |
| Echo: 可乐 (kělè) |
| Anthony: I don’t want to drink cola because it’s bad for you. So I will say I don’t want to drink cola. |
| Echo: 我不想喝可乐。 (Wǒ bùxiǎng hē kělè.) |
| Anthony: A healthier alternative is water. |
| Echo: 水 (shuǐ) |
| Anthony: Third tone. |
| Echo: 水 (shuǐ) |
| Anthony: I want to drink water. |
| Echo: 我想喝水。 (Wǒ xiǎng hē shuǐ.) |
| Anthony: Another unhealthy drink even though I like drinking it a lot is beer. |
| Echo: 啤酒 (píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: That’s a second tone and third tone. |
| Echo: 啤酒 (píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: I don’t want to drink beer. |
| Echo: 我不想喝啤酒 (Wǒ bùxiǎng hē píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: And I know Echo, there is one drink that you really like and that’s tea. |
| Echo: 茶 (chá) |
| Anthony: And that’s a second tone. |
| Echo: 茶 (chá) |
| Anthony: Echo wants to drink tea. |
| Echo: Echo想喝茶。 (Echo xiǎng hē chá.) |
| Anthony: Now if I want to ask you Echo what do you want to drink, how are you going to respond? |
| Echo: Whatever 隨便。 (Suíbiàn.) |
| Anthony: Echo doesn’t have New Year’s resolution. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: So she is free to drink whatever she wants. |
| Echo: 沒錯，隨便。 (Méicuò, suíbiàn.) |
| Anthony: So that’s our vocab section. Now on to the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Anthony: In the dialogue, we heard this sentence. |
| Echo: 你想喝什么？ (Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?) |
| Anthony: What do you want to drink? |
| Echo: 你想喝什么？ 想 (Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme? Xiǎng) |
| Anthony: That’s third tone and here it’s functioning as to want. |
| Echo: 想 (Xiǎng) |
| Anthony: I want to drink tea. |
| Echo: 我想喝茶。 (Wǒ xiǎng hē chá.) |
| Anthony: I want to drink tea. |
| Echo: 我想喝茶。 (Wǒ xiǎng hē chá.) |
| Anthony: All you are doing is putting a simple verb after the verb |
| Echo: 想 (Xiǎng) |
| Anthony: Let’s try a few other simple examples with simple verbs. I want to eat. |
| Echo: 我想吃 (Wǒ xiǎng chī) |
| Anthony: I want to eat Sichuan food. |
| Echo: 我想吃四川菜。 (Wǒ xiǎng chī sìchuān cài.) |
| Anthony: He wants to go. |
| Echo: 他想去。 (Tā xiǎng qù.) |
| Anthony: He wants to go to the park. |
| Echo: 他想去公園。 (Tā xiǎng qù gōngyuán.) |
| Anthony: We want to see. |
| Echo: 我們想看。 (Wǒmen xiǎng kàn.) |
| Anthony: We want to see a movie. |
| Echo: 我們想看電影。 (Wǒmen xiǎng kàn diànyǐng.) |
| Anthony: She wants to listen. |
| Echo: 她想聽。 (Tā xiǎng tīng.) |
| Anthony: She wants to listen to music. |
| Echo: 她想聽音樂。 (Tā xiǎng tīng yīnyuè.) |
| Anthony: That’s very simple, right Echo? |
| Echo: Very simple. |
| Anthony: All you are doing is taking the verb |
| Echo: 想 (Xiǎng) |
| Anthony: And then putting a simple verb after it. |
| Echo: Right. |
| Anthony: Another one is, they want to speak. |
| Echo: 他們想說。 (Tāmen xiǎng shuō.) |
| Anthony: They want to speak Chinese. |
| Echo: 他們想說中文。 (Tāmen xiǎng shuō zhōngwén.) |
| Anthony: So all you are doing when you are saying you want to do something is using a pronoun such as I |
| Echo: 我 (Wǒ) |
| Anthony: Then the verb |
| Echo: 想 (Xiǎng) |
| Anthony: And then what you want to do. |
| Echo: Like “to eat” 吃 (Chī) |
| Anthony: So Echo, you have one more sentence. |
| Echo: 我想說。 (Wǒ xiǎng shuō.) |
| Anthony: I want to say |
| Echo: 我想說再見。 (Wǒ xiǎng shuō zàijiàn.) |
| Anthony: I want to say goodbye. |
Outro |
| Anthony: And with that, that’s our podcast. Before we go, we would like to suggest if you have any questions or comments, come to chineseclass101.com |
| Echo: And we are all ready to reply all your questions. |
| Anthony: Any time of the day. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: From Beijing, I am Anthony. |
| Echo: 我是Echo。 (Wǒ shì Echo.) |
| Anthony: Thanks for listening and see you next week. |
| Echo: 下周见吧，(Xià zhōu jiàn ba,) Bye bye. |
| Anthony: Bye bye. |
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