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| INTRODUCTION |
| David: Hello and welcome to chineseclass101.com where we state modern Chinese in the fun and educational way. I am David and I am joined in the studio here by |
| Echo: Echo! Hi! 大家好.(Dàjiā hǎo.) |
| David: Yeah absolute beginner, season 2, lesson 12. |
| Echo: We all scream for ice cream in China. |
| David: Echo what are we looking at today? |
| Echo: In this lesson, we will review two ways to tell people you want something. |
| David: Right, we’ve got a dialogue here that takes place outside a convenience store. |
| Echo: And it is between two best friends on a hot summer day. |
| David: Right. Things are going to hit the boiling point. |
| Echo: They are speaking casually about ice cream. |
| David: So we are going to go to the dialogue in a sec. Before we do, we want to remind you, come to chineseclass101.com and download our premium transcripts. So you can read along with this podcast. |
| Echo: That’s right. It’s a great way to review. |
| David: Right, with that though, let’s get to the dialogue. |
| DIALOGUE |
| A: 今天真热。(Jīntiān zhēn rè.) |
| B: 我要吃冰淇淋。(Wǒ yào chī bīngqílín.) |
| A: 我也想吃。(Wǒ yě xiǎng chī.) |
| B: 我请你。(Wǒ qǐng nǐ.) |
| David: One more time, a bit slower. |
| A: 今天真热。(Jīntiān zhēn rè.) |
| B: 我要吃冰淇淋。(Wǒ yào chī bīngqílín.) |
| A: 我也想吃。(Wǒ yě xiǎng chī.) |
| B: 我请你。(Wǒ qǐng nǐ.) |
| David: And now with the English. |
| A: 今天真热。(Jīntiān zhēn rè.) |
| A: Today is really hot. |
| B: 我要吃冰淇淋。(Wǒ yào chī bīngqílín.) |
| B: I want to eat ice cream. |
| A: 我也想吃。(Wǒ yě xiǎng chī.) |
| A: I also feel like eating ice cream. |
| B: 我请你。(Wǒ qǐng nǐ.) |
| B: I'll treat you. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| David: Which is the best way to make friends? |
| Echo: Good. |
| David: It’s hot outside. Echo… |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: How about an ice cream? |
| Echo: 走(Zǒu) |
| David: I will treat you. |
| Echo: Let’s go now. Go. |
| David: Okay once the podcast is done. |
| Echo: Okay. |
| David: Any way, the magic words I will treat you. |
| Echo: 我请你(Wǒ qǐng nǐ) |
| David: Right very helpful. Anyway our vocab today is all about heat and the weather. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: So let’s get right to that. |
| Echo: 好的(Hǎo de) |
| VOCAB LIST |
| David: And now the vocab section. |
| Echo: 热(Rè) [natural native speed] |
| David: hot |
| Echo: 热(Rè) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 热(Rè) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 冷(Lěng) [natural native speed] |
| David: cold |
| Echo: 冷(Lěng) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 冷(Lěng) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 凉(Liáng) [natural native speed] |
| David: cool |
| Echo: 凉(Liáng) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 凉(Liáng) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 暖和(Nuǎnhuo) [natural native speed] |
| warm |
| Echo: 暖和(Nuǎnhuo) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 暖和(Nuǎnhuo) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 闷(Mèn) [natural native speed] |
| David: humid; stuffy |
| Echo: 闷(Mèn) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 闷(Mèn) [natural native speed] |
| Echo: 冰淇淋(Bīngqílín) [natural native speed] |
| David: ice cream |
| Echo: 冰淇淋(Bīngqílín) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Echo: 冰淇淋(Bīngqílín) [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| David: So our vocab today is all adjectives. |
| Echo: And it’s about the weather. |
| David: Right. So you might have the sentence the weather is hot. |
| Echo: 天气很热(Tiānqì hěn rè) |
| David: Right. So all of these words you can put in that sentence and that word actually is the first word in our vocab list. |
| Echo: 热(Rè) |
| David: Hot. |
| Echo: 热(Rè) |
| David: As in the sentence |
| Echo: 夏天很热(Xiàtiān hěn rè) |
| David: Summer is hot. |
| Echo: 夏天很热(Xiàtiān hěn rè) |
| David: Right. You might also hear people screaming |
| Echo: 好热呀(Hǎo rè ya) |
| David: It’s really hot right. |
| Echo: 好热呀(Hǎo rè ya) |
| David: So our next word is the opposite of hot. |
| Echo: 冷(Lěng) |
| David: Cold. |
| Echo: 冷(Lěng) |
| David: Once again, we are talking about the weather. |
| Echo: 冬天不太冷(Dōngtiān bù tài lěng) |
| David: The winter is not too cold. |
| Echo: 冬天不太冷(Dōngtiān bù tài lěng) |
| David: Winter isn’t that cold. And you want to get the PDF so you can see what these characters look like. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| David: Because they are all so funny…. |
| Echo: They are all funny. |
| David: In the shower. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: So you can tell which is hot and which is cold. If it’s not cold though, it might still be cool. |
| Echo: 凉(Liáng) |
| David: Cool. |
| Echo: 凉(Liáng) |
| David: It might be the wind or it might be a drink. |
| Echo: 譬如说，我要凉的可乐(Pìrú shuō, wǒ yào liáng de kělè) |
| David: I want a cold soda. |
| Echo: 我要凉的可乐(Wǒ yào liáng de kělè) |
| David: Yeah literally I want a cool soda right. You might also use it to describe the weather. |
| Echo: 今天有点儿凉(Jīntiān yǒudiǎn er liáng) |
| David: It’s a bit cool today. |
| Echo: 今天有点儿凉(Jīntiān yǒudiǎn er liáng) |
| David: Right and you will remember that word for a bit. |
| Echo: 点儿(Diǎn er) |
| David: We covered that in the previous lesson. Our next word is warm. |
| Echo: 暖和(Nuǎnhuo) |
| David: Warm. |
| Echo: 暖和(Nuǎnhuo) |
| David: Yeah |
| Echo: 房间里很暖和(Fángjiān lǐ hěn nuǎnhuo) |
| David: It’s warm inside the room. |
| Echo: 房间里很暖和(Fángjiān lǐ hěn nuǎnhuo) |
| David: It’s warm inside the room although you are not going to get that down south where they don’t have central heating. |
| Echo: 对(Duì) |
| David: South of the Yangtze. In the south though, you are going to get something in the summer. |
| Echo: 闷(Mèn) |
| David: Humid. |
| Echo: 闷(Mèn) |
| David: Humid or stuffy. |
| Echo: 对，今天很闷(Duì, jīntiān hěn mèn) |
| David: Today it’s really stuffy. |
| Echo: 今天很闷(Jīntiān hěn mèn) |
| David: It’s really humid today. So five key words for describing weather. |
Lesson focus |
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| David: Our grammar point is all about describing what you want. Today, we are going to review two ways to say to want. |
| Echo: 想(Xiǎng) and 要(Yào) |
| David: Right. These both have the meaning of to want but they are used a bit differently. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: For instance |
| Echo: 要(Yào) |
| David: Is much more forceful. It doesn’t only mean to want, it means will. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: You are going to use it when something is definitely going to happen. For example |
| Echo: 我要去北京(Wǒ yào qù běijīng) |
| David: I want to go to Beijing. |
| Echo: 我要去北京(Wǒ yào qù běijīng) |
| David: I want to go to Beijing and that suggests definitely we are going to go. I have made up my mind. It’s going to happen. If you are not really sure or if you don’t know how you are going to get there. |
| Echo: You can use 想(Xiǎng) instead. |
| David: Right. That means to wish. |
| Echo: Right 想(Xiǎng) like 我想去北京(Wǒ xiǎng qù běijīng) |
| David: I want to go to Beijing. |
| Echo: 我想去北京(Wǒ xiǎng qù běijīng) |
| David: Right. A lot of the time Chinese people will use |
| Echo: 想(Xiǎng) |
| David: Instead of |
| Echo: 要(Yào) |
| David: Because it sounds less selfish. It also – it sounds less forceful. It’s softer you know. I wish to do this as opposed to 要 which is it’s going to happen. |
| Echo: Right. |
| David: In our dialogue though, we heard this. |
| Echo: 我要吃冰淇淋(Wǒ yào chī bīngqílín) |
| David: Right. I want to eat ice cream. |
| Echo: 因为太热了(Yīnwèi tài rèle) |
| David: It’s so hot. It’s going to happen. Okay so these are two words that confuse a lot of students. |
| Echo: 想(Xiǎng) |
| David: To wish |
| Echo: And 要(Yào) |
| David: To want but you don’t need to be confused and best of all I think if you are just starting out, get in the habit of using 想(Xiǎng) |
| Echo: Right. |
Outro |
| David: So that just a bit does it for today. Before we leave you, we want to remind you, drop by chineseclass101.com and pick up the lesson PDFs. |
| Echo: That’s right. It’s very useful. |
| David: Right. We’ve got a transcript of the conversation, samples sentences and the grammar explanation, review it the day after you listen to whole podcast and it’s going to help it stick. |
| Echo: 没错.(Méi cuò) |
| David: For now though, from Beijing, I am David. |
| Echo: 我是(Wǒ shì)Echo. |
| David: Thanks a lot for listening and we will see you on the site. |
| Echo: 网上见，拜拜.(Wǎngshàng jiàn, bàibài.) |
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