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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.) |
Comments
HideEveryone likes ice cream on a hot day, but who can stand a popsicle on a cold day?
Hello Alex,
Thank you for your comment. 有点儿 is one word, it means "there's a bit of..." or "a bit too...".
Let us know if you have any questions.
Ngai
Team ChineseClass101.com
Hi team,
I noticed that the phrase 今天有点儿凉(Jīntiān yǒudiǎn er liáng) has the word 有, but other phrases like 今天很闷(Jīntiān hěn mèn) go without it. Does this mean that we could also say 今天点儿凉 and 今天有很闷 ? Or do we use 有 only because of the 点儿 ?
你好 Byron，
不客气！😉
Let us know if you have any questions.
Ngai
Team ChineseClass101.com
Ngai,
非常感谢啊！
Hello Byron,
Thank you for your comment. You may try to read some Chinese short stories.
For example:
Stories of Folk Customs 中国民俗故事
Mandarin Companion Graded Readers
Hope it helps, let us know if you have any questions.
Ngai
Team ChineseClass101.com
Chinese Class 101 Team,
I'm nearly 40% done with the "Absolute Beginner" curriculum and would like to begin reading books suitable for my level soon. Can you recommend any (preferably Kindle e-books) to me? Thank you!
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 lsson transcript
favorite phrase is 我要吃冰淇淋
robert
Hi, Tara,
my boss is making me travel, but I really don’t want to do it.
In Chinese, it will be "我的（my）老板（boss）要 我 出差（travel on business），但是我不想去。"
Here, 我的 老板 要 我 出差＝我的 老板 想 让 我 出差(My boss is going to let me travel)
"我的老板想我出差" is wrong.
但是我不想去 means "but I don't want to go".
The meaning of 但是我不要去 is different, it has the connotation of "but I'm not going to go(I determined not to go, I will refuse.)".
Cho
Team ChineseClass101.com
So I understand that 想 is "to want," or "to wish," and 要 is used to mean, "to want," "to be going to," or, "to have to," but in English, the connotation between "to be going to," is like "I've made up my mind," while 'to have to," has the connotation of being compelled to, especially if it's something you'd rather not do. For example, "my boss is making me travel, but I really don't want to do it." Or like, "I have to do it weather I want to or not." Is there a Chinese equivalent for that?
Is there anyway to have access to the pinyin translations in the lesson notes in addition to the Chinese characters? It's much easier for me!
Hi Alexis 亚历克西,
哈哈，我也饿了！:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Olivia
Team ChineseClass101.com
哇！:thumbsup:
谢谢你！现在我 饿了！:smile:
Hi Alexis 亚历克西,
Thanks for the suggestion! The vocabulary for "ice cream" 冰淇淋 is added to the vocab list, enjoy! :smile:
Olivia
Team ChineseClass101.com
Another great lesson. It would be great to have the word for ice-cream included in the vocabulary with pronunciation so that we could have it in our flashcards. I would like to know the word for ice-cream. Here's my shot at writing it in Chinese: 我 想知道冰淇凌。
Hi Arthur,
Both 冰激淋 bīng jī lín and 冰淇淋 bīng qí lín are correct.
People from the north China tend to say 冰激淋, and people from the south like to say 冰淇淋
Yinru
Team ChineseClass101.com
When Echo pronounces 冰激凌, she says bing1 ji1 ling2.
When the dialogue plays the speaker says bing1 qi1 ling2, which is also what is indicated in the pinyin.
Also in the online dictionary (MDBG.com) it is given as bing1 ji1 ling2
So what gives? Regional variant?
Hi Ciana,
We say 很冷:smile:
Chloe
Team ChineseClass101.com
*cold*
How would you says freezing? It's cole where I live.
Thank you
Ciana