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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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