Learn five words about sports
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| Hi. Welcome to Chinese weekly words. I am Yinru. 欢迎来到 Chinese weekly words. 这个星期我们要讲些什么呢？ What are we going to talk about this week? Let’s find out. Sports, we are going to talk about sports. Okay even though I suck at sports. |
| 体操(tǐcāo) or 体操运动(tǐcāo yùndòng) is ”gymnastics" |
| 李宁是体操冠军。(Lǐ Níng shì tǐcāo guànjūn.)"Li Ning is a gymnastics world champion." |
| He is very famous because he got the first place in the Olympics and now he has his own business. There is like a brand, a sports brand called Li Ning which uses his own name as the brand name. |
| 篮球(lánqiú)"basketball" |
| And the first name that came up to my mind is Yao Ming. |
| 姚明是一个篮球明星。(Yáo Míng shì yí gè lánqiú míngxīng.)"Yao Ming is a basketball star." |
| How tall is he? He is like 2 meters 13. I don’t know it’s – every time he shows up, I will think the camera have to do this you know to show him. |
| 下一个是:足球(zúqiú) |
| 足(zú) is a formal term for “foot”. “Football” in British English, “Soccer” in American English. |
| 我不会踢足球。(Wǒ bú huì tī zúqiú.)"I don't know how to play soccer." |
| So play soccer in Chinese 踢 (tī), we use the verb 踢 (tī) which is “to kick”. 踢足球 (tī zúqiú) means “play soccer”. All right. |
| 我不会踢足球。你会吗？你会踢吗？(Wǒ bú huì tī zúqiú. Nǐ huì ma? Nǐ huì tī ma?) "Do you know how to play soccer?" |
| 乒乓球(pīngpāngqiú) |
| Can you figure out from the pronunciation? I think “ping pong” is also called “table tennis” in English. |
| 我想买一张乒乓球桌。(Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yì zhāng pīngpāngqiú zhuō.)"I want to buy a ping pong table." A table that you can play ping pong. |
| 下一个:游泳(yóuyǒng) |
| I cannot do this… 游泳(yóuyǒng) means "swimming”. |
| 我不会游泳。(Wǒ bú huì yóuyǒng.)"I don't know how to swim." |
| I know it’s embarrassing but I am just afraid of water. |
| Okay that’s the end. We talked about all kinds of sports. What is your favorite sports? Please let us know and thanks for watching. I will be here with you on Chinese weekly words next time. Bye bye. |
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