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| INTRODUCTION |
| David: Hi and welcome back to chineseclass101.com. The fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Chinese. I am David and I am joined in the studio here by |
| Echo: Echo. Hi! 大家好.(Dàjiā hǎo.) |
| David: Yeah and we are here today with absolute beginner season 2, lesson 11. |
| Echo: The Brand new Chinese bike. |
| David: Right and it’s no mystery what happens to brand new bikes in China. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: Right. And we are going to teach you how to place adjectives in the sentence. |
| Echo: That’s right and this conversation takes place outside a bicycle shop. |
| David: Right. It’s been two friends one of whom has just bought a bicycle and because they are friends, they are speaking casual mandarin as always. |
| Echo: 对(Duì) |
| David: Okay. We are going to take you to the dialogue in a sec. Before we do, we want to remind you, this material is actually getting a bit tricky. We’ve got longer sentences. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: But this is the way Chinese people speak and if you are having trouble following with only the audio, get your hands on the PDF transcripts. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: And you will be able to follow along much easier and learn much faster. With that though, let’s go to the dialogue. |
| DIALOGUE |
| A: 你看，我的新自行车。(Nǐ kàn, wǒ de xīn zìxíngchē.) |
| B: 很漂亮！(Hěn piàoliàng!) |
| A: 也很便宜，100块钱。(Yě hěn piányì, yìbǎi kuài.) |
| David: One more time, a bit slower. |
| A: 你看，我的新自行车。(Nǐ kàn, wǒ de xīn zìxíngchē.) |
| B: 很漂亮！(Hěn piàoliàng!) |
| A: 也很便宜，100块钱。(Yě hěn piányì, yìbǎi kuài.) |
| David: And now with the English. |
| A: 你看，我的新自行车。(Nǐ kàn, wǒ de xīn zìxíngchē.) |
| David: Hey look, my new bicycle. |
| B: 很漂亮！(Hěn piàoliàng!) |
| David: It's really pretty. |
| A: 也很便宜，100块钱。(Yě hěn piányì, yìbǎi kuài.) |
| David: And it was also very cheap. One hundred kuai. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| David: So I’ve actually stopped buying new bikes in China. |
| Echo: I think I know why. |
| David: Right because you walk here with that shiny new bike and you’ve just attracted the attention of lot of bike thieves. |
| Echo: Right it’s ugly. Yeah it’s ugly truth. |
| David: Right. You were telling us Echo before that you bought a new bike and you messed it up. So it looked dirty. |
| Echo: Yeah but it’s really a very, very good bike. |
| David: Yeah but it does look actually really, really bad. |
| Echo: Ugly, exactly. |
| David: Also because you ripped off one of the handle bars. |
| Echo: Right. Its way too protected. |
| David: Any way. It is the truth but our vocab today is not just about bikes. It’s about all kinds of transportation. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: So regardless if you are biking or taxi cabbing it, this is vocab you need to know. |
| Echo: Right, very important. |
| David: Let’s get to it. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| David: And now the vocab section. |
| Echo: 自行车(zìxíngchē) [natural native speed] |
| David: bicycle |
| Echo: 自行车(zìxíngchē) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 自行车(zìxíngchē) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 摩托车(mótuōchē) [natural native speed] |
| David: motorcycle |
| Echo: 摩托车(mótuōchē) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 摩托车(mótuōchē) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 火车(huǒchē) [natural native speed] |
| David: train |
| Echo: 火车(huǒchē) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 火车(huǒchē) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 出租车(chūzūchē) [natural native speed] |
| David: taxi |
| Echo: 出租车(chūzūchē) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 出租车(chūzūchē) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 滑板(huábǎn) [natural native speed] |
| David: skateboard |
| Echo: 滑板(huábǎn) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 滑板(huábǎn) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 漂亮(piàoliàng) [natural native speed] |
| David: pretty |
| Echo: 漂亮(piàoliàng) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 漂亮(piàoliàng) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 便宜(piányì) [natural native speed] |
| David: inexpensive; cheap |
| Echo: 便宜(piányì) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 便宜(piányì) [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| David: So the mode of transportation we talked about in the dialogue was |
| Echo: 自行车(zìxíngchē) |
| David: Bicycle |
| Echo: 自行车(zìxíngchē) |
| David: I lost my bicycle. |
| Echo: Yeah 我的自行车掉了(Wǒ de zìxíngchē diàole) |
| David: Which is actually misleading because chances are it was stolen. |
| Echo: 偷(Tōu) |
| David: It happens. |
| Echo: Yeah |
| David: A vehicle that is slightly harder to steal is motorcycle. |
| Echo: 摩托车(Mótuō chē) |
| David: Motorcycle. |
| Echo: 摩托车(Mótuō chē) |
| David: And this is actually a sound loan from English. |
| Echo: The motor 摩托. 你看我的新摩托车！(Mótuō. Nǐ kàn wǒ de xīn mótuō chē!) |
| David: Hey look, my new motorcycle. |
| Echo: 你看我的新摩托车！(Nǐ kàn wǒ de xīn mótuō chē!) |
| David: Hey look, my new motorcycle. |
| Echo: Actually now there are more and more thieves who will only steal 摩托车(Mótuō chē) |
| David: Also electric bikes. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: Which are |
| Echo: 电动车(Diàndòng chē) |
| David: So we have got bicycles |
| Echo: 自行车(Zìxíngchē) |
| David: Motorcycles |
| Echo: 摩托车(Mótuō chē) |
| David: And electric bikes |
| Echo: 电动车(Diàndòng chē) |
| David: Another way to get around is more useful for going between cities. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: And that’s the “fire car”. |
| Echo: 火车(Huǒchē) |
| David: And that of course is train. |
| Echo: It’s very convenient to take the train to somewhere in China, 火车.(Huǒchē.) |
| David: I love it. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: Because it gets you right from one downtown to the other downtown. |
| Echo: Yeah and also like there are more and more like new kind of trains. |
| David: Yeah really, really fast. |
| Echo: Very clean and fast. Very comfortable too. |
| David: Right but they are still called |
| Echo: 火车(Huǒchē) |
| David: As in the sentence |
| Echo: 我坐火车回家(Wǒ zuò huǒchē huí jiā) |
| David: I am taking the train home. |
| Echo: 我坐火车回家(Wǒ zuò huǒchē huí jiā) |
| David: And you should know all of these words. We’ve covered them in previous lessons. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: Our next word is suitable for getting around in the city. |
| Echo: 出租车(Chūzū chē) |
| David: Taxi. |
| Echo: 出租车. 出租车很方便.(Chūzū chē. Chūzū chē hěn fāngbiàn.) |
| David: Taxis are very convenient. |
| Echo: 出租车很方便(Chūzū chē hěn fāngbiàn) |
| David: Right although they can be expensive. Our next word is really, really cheap. |
| Echo: 滑板(Huábǎn) |
| David: Let’s hear that again. |
| Echo: 滑板(Huábǎn) |
| David: And if you guess, that is a skateboard. |
| Echo: Right. 滑板. 你看我的新滑板.(Huábǎn. Nǐ kàn wǒ de xīn huábǎn) |
| David: Look at my new skateboard. |
| Echo: 你看我的新滑板(Nǐ kàn wǒ de xīn huábǎn) |
| David: And these are actually getting popular these days especially with really young kids. |
| Echo: Right. 你看我的新滑板.(Nǐ kàn wǒ de xīn huábǎn.) |
| David: So that’s our new vocab. Tons of ways to get around town. |
Lesson focus |
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| David: Join us in our grammar section as we review the possessive particle. |
| Echo: 的(De) |
| David: In previous lessons, we’ve told you |
| Echo: 的(De) |
| David: Is a structural particle that shows ownership or possession. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: For example, to say my book |
| Echo: You can add 我(Wǒ) and 书(Shū) with a particle 的, 我的书.(De, wǒ de shū.) |
| David: Right. My |
| Echo: 我的(Wǒ de) |
| David: Book |
| Echo: 书. 我的书.(Shū. Wǒ de shū.) |
| David: Let’s take a look at another example. Your bicycle |
| Echo: 你的自行车(Nǐ de zìxíngchē) |
| David: My motorcycle. |
| Echo: 我的摩托车(Wǒ de mótuō chē) |
| David: His skateboard. |
| Echo: 他的滑板(Tā de huábǎn) |
| David: Right. In all of these cases, we have the pronoun and then |
| Echo: 的(De) |
| David: And then the object. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: Let’s take a look at some samples sentences. |
| Echo: 你的车很漂亮(Nǐ de chē hěn piàoliang) |
| David: Your bicycle is very pretty. |
| Echo: Yeah it can be your car too. 你的车很漂亮(Nǐ de chē hěn piàoliang) |
| David: Right your vehicle is very pretty. |
| Echo: Right. 他的病好了(Tā de bìng hǎole) |
| David: His disease has cleared up. |
| Echo: 他的病好了(Tā de bìng hǎole) |
| David: His sickness is better. |
| Echo: Or questions 这是谁的东西？(Zhè shì shéi de dōngxī?) |
| David: Whose things are these? |
| Echo: 这是谁的东西？(Zhè shì shéi de dōngxī?) |
| David: And that’s literally, these are whose things? One thing we do want to point out, when you are talking about family relations and friends, often you won’t hear this (的). |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: For instance, you will hear someone say my mother. |
| Echo: 我妈妈(Wǒ māmā) |
| David: Your sister |
| Echo: 你姐姐(Nǐ jiějiě) |
| David: His father |
| Echo: 他爸爸(Tā bàba) |
| David: Right. In these cases, you can leave out |
| Echo: 的(De) |
| David: Right. It’s understood. So to review, to make something possessive, you take a noun, add |
| Echo: 的(De) |
| David: And then add the object. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: Okay. |
Outro |
| Echo: So I think we are done. |
| David: Right. If you are ready to test what we have just learned though, make sure to come to chineseclass101.com and check out our lesson specific flash cards. There is a reason everyone uses them. |
| Echo: They worked. |
| David: Thank you. They really do help with memorization and you are one click away from them in Premium learning center. Okay with that though, thanks for joining us at chineseclass101.com. I am David. |
| Echo: 我是(Wǒ shì)Echo. |
| David: And we will see you next time. Bye bye. |
| Echo: Bye bye. |
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Comments
HideWould you rather buy a new bike or a second hand bike in China?
你好 robert groulx！
不用谢。(Bú yòng xiè.) = No need for thanks. You're welcome. 😇
谢谢 (Xièxie) for studying with us, it's great to have you here!
Let us know if you have any questions.
Kind regards,
雷文特 (Levente)
Team ChineseClass101.com
thank you for the lwsson trancript
favorite phrase is 这是谁的东西？
robert
Ni hao Echo
Xie xie
Hi Neville,
Yes, it's "qian2", and it exactly means money :)
Echo
Team ChineseClass101.com
In the conversation, I hear something after yibai kuai. I think it is the word that indicates money. Am I correct? It is not in the pdf transcript for this lesson.
xie xie
Hi chineseclass101 team,
Unfortunately, the vocabulary list is missing for this lesson. Could you please add it?
Michel