Learn how to ask to turn things on and off
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Frank: Hey, everyone. |
| Echo: Da jia hao! |
| Frank: Welcome back to ChineseClass101.com, Season 1, Lesson 36 in our Beginner series. |
| Echo: 第三十六课。(Dì sānshíliù kè.) |
| Frank: I’m your host, Frank Fradella, and I’m joined in the studio, as always, by my amazing co-host, Echo. |
| Echo: 谢谢。(Xièxiè.) |
| Frank: Today’s lesson is about those dog days of summer, when you need to turn on the AC. |
| Echo: Yeah, like these days in Beijing actually. |
| Frank: Absolutely. Very hot here. This is a dialogue between two friends. |
| Echo: They are speaking casually. |
| Frank: They’re at home. |
| Echo: Yes. |
| Frank: Let’s get on to the dialogue now. |
| Echo: But before we do… |
| Frank: Oh, before we do, that’s right. We want to remind you, folks, to head up to ChineseClass101.com. Leave us a comment on today’s lesson. We’ll see you there. For now, on to the dialogue. |
Lesson conversation |
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| 张颖: 这儿太热了。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Zhèr tài rè le.) |
| Bunny: 要开空调吗？(BUNNY: Yào kāi kōngtiáo ma?) |
| 张颖: 太好了，谢谢你。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Tài hǎo le, xièxie nǐ.) |
| Bunny: 好的，马上。(BUNNY: Hǎo de, mǎshàng.) |
| Frank: One more time, just a bit slower. |
| 张颖: 这儿太热了。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Zhèr tài rè le.) |
| Bunny: 要开空调吗？(BUNNY: Yào kāi kōngtiáo ma?) |
| 张颖: 太好了，谢谢你。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Tài hǎo le, xièxie nǐ.) |
| Bunny: 好的，马上。(BUNNY: Hǎo de, mǎshàng.) |
| Frank: Okay, we’re back. You know, it really is kind of hot in Beijing these days. |
| Echo: Especially in the studio. |
| Frank: Especially in the studio. We’d love to turn on the air conditioning but unfortunately, our studio engineer would kill us. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Frank: So we’re just going to push on to the line-by-line and we’ll get cool later on. |
| Echo: 好。(Hǎo.) |
| 张颖: 这儿太热了。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Zhèr tài rè le.) |
| Frank: It's really hot here. |
| Bunny: 要开空调吗？(BUNNY: Yào kāi kōngtiáo ma?) |
| Frank: Want to turn on the AC? |
| 张颖: 太好了，谢谢你。(ZHĀNG YǏNG: Tài hǎo le, xièxie nǐ.) |
| Frank: Awesome, thank you. |
| Bunny: 好的，马上。(BUNNY: Hǎo de, mǎshàng.) |
| Frank: Okay, right away. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Echo: Cute. |
| Frank: Okay, right away. |
| Echo: I would love to hear that... |
| Frank: I’m on it. |
| Echo: …to hear that myself. |
| Frank: Isn’t that great? It’s just like I’m on it. Dude, you want it, you got it. Let me go and do that. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Frank: Okay. Today’s vocab section has a lot of great stuff that we can turn on an off, including the air conditioner. Let’s get to the vocab section now. |
| Echo: 好的。(Hǎo de.) |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Male: Now the vocab section. |
| Echo: 热(rè) [natural native speed]. |
| Frank: Hot. |
| Echo: 热(rè)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. 热(rè)[natural native speed]. |
| Echo: 要(yào) [natural native speed]. |
| Frank: To want. |
| Echo: 要(yào)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. 要(yào)[natural native speed]. |
| Echo: 开(kāi) [natural native speed]. |
| Frank: To turn on. |
| Echo: 开(kāi)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. 开(kāi)[natural native speed]. |
| Echo: 空调(kōngtiáo) [natural native speed]. |
| Frank: Air conditioner. |
| Echo: 空调(kōngtiáo)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. 空调(kōngtiáo)[natural native speed]. |
| Echo: 马上(mǎshàng) [natural native speed]. |
| Frank: Right away. |
| Echo: 马上(mǎshàng)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. 马上(mǎshàng)[natural native speed]. |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Frank: All right, Echo. The focus of this vocab section is turning things on using this verb. |
| Echo: 开。(kāi.) |
| Frank: Obviously, there’s lots of things that you could turn on in your house; things like lights. |
| Echo: 灯。开灯。(Dēng. Kāi dēng.) |
| Frank: Cell phone. |
| Echo: 手机。开手机。(Shǒujī. Kāi shǒujī.) |
| Frank: A fan. |
| Echo: 电扇。开电扇。(Diànshàn. Kāi diànshàn.) |
| Frank: The air conditioner. |
| Echo: 空调。开空调。(Kòngtiáo. Kāi kòngtiáo.) |
| Frank: The T.V. |
| Echo: 电视。开电视。(Diànshì. Kāi diànshì.) |
| Frank: Now some of these words you already know. Let’s go ahead and practice turning things on in these sample sentences. How do you say, “Turn on the lights”? |
| Echo: 开灯。(Kāi dēng.) |
| Frank: Turn on your cellphone. |
| Echo: 开手机。(Kāi shǒujī.) |
| Frank: Turn on the fan. |
| Echo: 开电扇。(Kāi diànshàn.) |
| Frank: Okay, easy enough. How about, “Is the restaurant open?” |
| Echo: 这个饭馆开了吗？(Zhège fànguǎn kāile ma?) |
| Frank: Open. Did I say open? I did say open. We start one in there for you. Actually, the verb for “open” is the same verb for turning things on. |
| Echo: 开。(Kāi.) |
| Frank: Let’s hear that one more time. “Is the restaurant open?” |
| Echo: 这个饭馆开了吗？(Zhège fànguǎn kāile ma?) |
| Frank: The air conditioning is on. |
| Echo: 空调开了。(Kòngtiáo kāile.) |
| Frank: Turn on the computer. |
| Echo: 开电脑。(Kāi diànnǎo.) |
| Frank: Drive the car. |
| Echo: 开车。(Kāichē.) |
| Frank: To another curve ball there. This is actually the same verb for driving the car. |
| Echo: 没错。(Méi cuò.). Hey, Frank, do you know the opposite of 开(Kāi)? |
| Frank: I do. Let’s see if our listeners can pick it up from these sentences. |
| Echo: Okay. |
| Frank: Turn off the lights. |
| Echo: 关灯。(Guān dēng.) |
| Frank: Close the door. |
| Echo: 关门。(Guānmén.) |
| Frank: Turn off the air conditioner. |
| Echo: 关空调。(Guān kòngtiáo.) |
| Frank: Shut off the DVD player. |
| Echo: 关ＤＶＤ机(Guān DVD jī) |
| Frank: There you go. So to turn something off, you just say 关.(Guān.) |
| Echo: Exactly. It’s the opposite of... |
| Echo: 开。(Kāi.) |
| Frank: You know what’s the opposite of vocab section? The grammar section. |
| Echo: What opposite? |
| Frank: It’s the Yin to the Yang. It’s the black to the white. It’s the balance. It’s… |
| Echo: Okay. Let’s just go to the grammar. |
| Frank: Let’s just go to the grammar section. |
| Echo: 马上。(Mǎshàng.) |
Lesson focus |
| Male: It’s grammar time. |
| Frank: Today we’re going to focus on a special type of sentence. In this dialogue, we heard this: |
| Male: 要开空调吗？(Yào kāi kòngtiáo ma?) |
| Female: 要开空调吗？(Yào kāi kòngtiáo ma?) |
| Frank: Do you want to turn on the air conditioner? |
| Echo: 没错。(Méi cuò.) This is the 要 ...吗(Yào... Ma) sentence. It is how you say, “Do you want…” |
| Frank: Exactly. Like, “Do you want to see a movie?” |
| Echo: 要看电影吗？(Yào kàn diànyǐng ma?) |
| Frank: Do you want to sleep? |
| Echo: 要睡觉吗？(Yào shuìjiào ma?) |
| Frank: Do you want ice cream? |
| Echo: 要冰淇淋吗？(Yào bīngqílín ma?) |
| Frank: Echo, how do you say, “Do you want chocolate?” |
| Echo: 要巧克力吗？(Yào qiǎokèlì ma?) |
| Frank: I think we all know the answer to that one. |
| Echo: 当然。当然。(Dāngrán. Dāngrán.) |
| Frank: Do you want anything else? |
| Echo: 还要别的吗？(Hái yào bié de ma?)here means, “Do you want?” Do you know what I still want? I want to answer these questions. |
| Frank: Yeah. |
| Echo: Now we’ve told you before that you can actually use the same verb that’s in the question to answer with. |
| Echo: 没错。(Méi cuò.) |
| Frank: In this case, that verb is… |
| Echo: 要。要。(Yào. Yào.) |
| Frank: Now if you want to say that in the negative, how do you say you don’t want something? |
| Echo: 不要。不要。(Bùyào. Bùyào.) |
| Frank: It’s just that easy. |
| Echo: 要。不要。(Yào. Bùyào.) |
| Frank: So the answer to any of the questions in this section, if you do want it, you can just say… |
| Echo: 要。我要。(Yào. Wǒ yào.) |
| Frank: If you don’t want it, you can say… |
| Echo: 不要。我不要。(Bùyào. Wǒ bùyào.) |
| Frank: That’s a really useful truth. |
| Echo: You know what I like? I like the phrase, “No, thanks.” This is very useful. |
| Frank: Very, very useful. Let’s hear it. |
| Echo: 不要，谢谢。(Bùyào, xièxiè.) |
| Frank: No, thank you. |
| Echo: No, thank you. 不要，谢谢。(Bùyào, xièxiè.) |
| Frank: We have to thank you, but we’re at the end of our podcast. |
| Echo: 不要。(Bùyào) |
| Frank: I know. It’s time to go. |
| Echo: 不要不要不要。(Bùyào bùyào bùyào.) |
| Frank: I’m sure it’s exactly our listeners are saying. It’s how I feel, too. But before we go, we do want to remind you, folks, to head up to ChineseClass101.com. Become a premium subscriber and check out that PDF transcript. |
| Echo: 没错。(Méi cuò.) |
| Frank: I’m your host, Frank Fradella. |
| Echo: 我是(Wǒ shì)Echo |
| Frank: From our studios here in Beijing, it’s time for us to say 再见.(Zàijiàn.) |
| Echo: Bye-bye. |
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