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| INTRODUCTION |
| Anthony: Welcome to chineseclass101, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Chinese. |
| Echo: 大家好， 我是Echo。 (Dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì Echo.) |
| Anthony: And I am Anthony and today we have lesson 17 in our second season of our beginner series. |
| Echo: Right. |
| Anthony: Titled The Inconvenience Store. |
| Echo: And today’s lesson is all about things you will find in a Chinese convenience store. |
| Anthony: That’s right. You know Echo, I feel like I spend a lot of time in these convenience stores. They are just so convenience. |
| Echo: They really are. |
| Anthony: Yeah I don’t see very many vending machines here in China and I think that’s because there is a small shop on every corner selling snacks and drinks. |
| Echo: And this is the case in today’s dialogue where a shopper is buying some goods. |
| Anthony: But unfortunately for him, it seems like the store is all sold out or maybe just doesn’t carry the basic necessities. |
| Echo: Okay so listen up because we got a lot of great vocabulary words for you that you will be sure to use in the convenience stores. |
| Anthony: That’s right if they are not sold out. Okay so let’s go into the dialogue. |
| DIALOGUE |
| 你们有烟吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu yān ma?) |
| 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| 你们有啤酒吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu píjiǔ ma?) |
| 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| 你们有什么？ (Nǐmen yǒu shénme?) |
| 有方便面。 (Yǒu fāngbiànmiàn.) |
| Anthony: One more time a little bit slower. |
| 你们有烟吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu yān ma?) |
| 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| 你们有啤酒吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu píjiǔ ma?) |
| 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| 你们有什么？ (Nǐmen yǒu shénme?) |
| 有方便面。 (Yǒu fāngbiànmiàn.) |
| Anthony: One more time with English. |
| Echo: 你们有烟吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu yān ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have cigarettes? |
| Echo: 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| Anthony: No. |
| Echo: 你们有啤酒吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu píjiǔ ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have beer? |
| Echo: 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| Anthony: No. |
| Echo: 你们有什么？ (Nǐmen yǒu shénme?) |
| Anthony: What do you have? |
| Echo: 有方便面。 (Yǒu fāngbiànmiàn.) |
| Anthony: We have instant noodles. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Anthony: |
| So looks like this guy was out buying the necessities beer and cigarettes. |
| Echo: Come on, I think every store in China has beer and cigarettes. |
| Anthony: Yes and instant noodles. |
| Echo: Yeah every store has all those three things at least. |
| Anthony: You know Echo, I’ve seen a few 7/11s here in Beijing but I usually don’t go to them. |
| Echo: Yeah neither do I. There is a convenience store on almost every corner that has better prices. |
| Anthony: Yeah so in today’s vocabulary section, we are going to list a huge variety of common things that you are going to find in the Chinese convenience store. |
| Echo: 没错, (Méi cuò,) A lot of really useful words. So let’s go to the vocab section now. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Echo: 烟 (yān) |
| Anthony: Cigarettes. |
| Echo: 烟, 烟, 啤酒 (yān, yān. píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: Beer. |
| Echo: 啤酒, 啤酒. 方便面 (píjiǔ, píjiǔ. fāngbiànmiàn) |
| Anthony: Instant noodles. |
| Echo: 方便面, 方便面. 牛奶 (fāngbiànmiàn, fāngbiànmiàn. niúnǎi) |
| Anthony: Milk. |
| Echo: 牛奶, 牛奶. 可乐 (niúnǎi, niúnǎi. kělè) |
| Anthony: Cola. |
| Echo: 可乐, 可乐. 冰红茶 (kělè, kělè. bīnghóngchá) |
| Anthony: Iced red tea. |
| Echo: 冰红茶, 冰红茶. 冰绿茶 (bīnghóngchá, bīnghóngchá. bīng lǜchá) |
| Anthony: Iced green tea. |
| Echo: 冰绿茶, 冰绿茶. 果汁 (bīng lǜchá, bīng lǜchá. guǒzhī) |
| Anthony: Juice. |
| Echo: 果汁, 果汁. 土豆片 (guǒzhī, guǒzhī. tǔdòu piàn) |
| Anthony: Potato chips. |
| Echo: 土豆片 (tǔdòu piàn) |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Anthony: So Echo, what’s our first vocabulary word? |
| Echo: 烟 (yān) |
| Anthony: Cigarettes. |
| Echo: 烟 (yān) |
| Anthony: And this is a true fact. China has the world’s largest smoking population. |
| Echo: Right. |
| Anthony: And you can expect to find people smoking here in many if not all places. |
| Echo: You can find cigarettes like in every convenience store. |
| Anthony: That’s right and it’s pretty to bum a smoke here too. |
| Echo: Yeah. 来一包烟 (Lái yì bāo yān.) |
| Anthony: Bring me a pack of cigarettes. |
| Echo: 来一包烟 (Lái yì bāo yān.) |
| Anthony: And notice our measure word there for cigarettes. |
| Echo: 包 (bāo) |
| Anthony: And this is a pack. It’s a pack of cigarettes. Okay Echo, so our next word. |
| Echo: 啤酒 (píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: Beer. |
| Echo: 啤酒 (píjiǔ) |
| Anthony: That’s a second tone and the third tone. Now this is just speculation but I would also guess that China has the world’s largest drinking population. |
| Echo: 还要两瓶啤酒。 (Hái yào liǎng píng píjiǔ.) |
| Anthony: I also want two bottles of beer. |
| Echo: 还要两瓶啤酒。 (Hái yào liǎng píng píjiǔ.) |
| Anthony: I also want two bottles of beer. |
| Echo: 方便面 (fāngbiànmiàn) |
| Anthony: Instant noodles. |
| Echo: 方便面 (fāngbiànmiàn) |
| Anthony: And the literal translation is convenience noodles. |
| Echo: 给我一包方便面。 (Gěi wǒ yì bāo fāngbiànmiàn.) |
| Anthony: Give me a pack of instant noodles. |
| Echo: 给我一包方便面。 (Gěi wǒ yì bāo fāngbiànmiàn.) |
| Anthony: And notice how we are using the same measure word for convenience noodles that we did for cigarettes. |
| Echo: 包 (bāo) |
| Anthony: Okay Echo, what’s our next word? |
| Echo: 牛奶 (niúnǎi) |
| Anthony: Milk. |
| Echo: 牛奶 (niúnǎi) |
| Anthony: And the first character here is the character for “cow” |
| Echo: 牛。我要两袋牛奶。(Niú. Wǒ yào liǎng dài niúnǎi.) |
| Anthony: I want two boxes of milk. |
| Echo: 我要两袋牛奶。 (Wǒ yào liǎng dài niúnǎi.) |
| Anthony: When you buy milk here, it’s usually sold in a juice box like container like a square cardboard box. |
| Echo: Yeah that’s why we use a measure word 袋 or 袋 (dài or dài) |
| Anthony: Okay so Echo, what’s our next word? |
| Echo: 可乐 (kělè) |
| Anthony: Cola. |
| Echo: 可乐 (kělè) |
| Anthony: Yeah and this is just a generic term for soda. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: And there are two really big cola brands here in China. One is |
| Echo: 可口可乐 (Kěkǒukělè) |
| Anthony: And this is coca-cola. |
| Echo: Another is Pepsi 百事可乐 (Bǎishìkělè) |
| Anthony: And we also have the word for Sprite. |
| Echo: 雪碧 (Xuěbì) |
| Anthony: Yeah. That’s a fun word. I like saying that one. |
| Echo: 雪碧。 (Xuěbì.) |
| Anthony: Once again, the generic term for Cola is |
| Echo: 可乐 (Kělè) |
| Anthony: So you can ask |
| Echo: 可乐多少钱？ (Kělè duōshǎo qián?) |
| Anthony: How much is the soda but Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, they all have the same price. |
| Echo: Yes. |
| Anthony: Three quay unless inflation is going to hit in soon. So Echo, do you have a specific soda that you like the most? |
| Echo: Actually my favorite is 冰红茶 (Bīng hóngchá) |
| Anthony: Iced red tea. I also like iced red tea. |
| Echo: 冰红茶。我想喝冰红茶。 (Bīng hóngchá. Wǒ xiǎng hē bīng hóngchá.) |
| Anthony: I want to drink iced red tea. |
| Echo: 我想喝冰红茶。 (Wǒ xiǎng hē bīng hóngchá.) |
| Anthony: So we have iced red tea. We also have |
| Echo: 冰绿茶 (bīng lǜchá) |
| Anthony: Iced green tea. |
| Echo: 冰绿茶 (bīng lǜchá) |
| Anthony: I personally prefer the red tea. I think the green tea is a little bland but to each their own. |
| Echo: Maybe. 冰绿茶三块。 (Bīng lǜchá sān kuài.) |
| Anthony: Iced green tea is three kuai. |
| Echo: 冰绿茶三块。 (Bīng lǜchá sān kuài.) |
| Anthony: And if somebody says otherwise, tell them it’s too expensive. |
| Echo: Yes. |
| Anthony: Unless they give you a cheaper price. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: But then they would be crazy to do that. So continuing with the beverages vocabulary, Echo what’s our next word? |
| Echo: 果汁 (guǒzhī) |
| Anthony: Juice. |
| Echo: 果汁 (guǒzhī) |
| Anthony: Fruit juice. |
| Echo: 果汁很好喝。 (Guǒzhī hěn hǎohē.) |
| Anthony: The fruit juice tastes really good. |
| Echo: 果汁很好喝。 (Guǒzhī hěn hǎohē.) |
| Anthony: Okay now this next word switching from beverages, we are moving into snacks and this is a very popular one. |
| Echo: Yeah 土豆片 (tǔdòu piàn) |
| Anthony: Potato chips. |
| Echo: 土豆片 (tǔdòu piàn) |
| Anthony: And this translates as potato slice. |
| Echo: Yeah 土豆片好吃。 (Tǔdòu piàn hǎochī.) |
| Anthony: Potato chips are tasty. |
| Echo: 土豆片好吃。 (Tǔdòu piàn hǎochī.) |
| Anthony: Okay so we finished up with our vocab section. Soon, we are going to move into our grammar section and we are going to be doing a review of a very familiar verb that we have. |
| Echo: 有 (Yǒu) |
| Anthony: To have. Okay so let’s go to the grammar section now. |
Lesson focus |
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| Anthony: In today’s grammar focus, we are going to be reviewing the verb... |
| Echo: 有 (Yǒu) |
| Anthony: To have. Now we’ve learned in previous lesson that this verb to have shows ownership or possession. And it can also be used to show existence. |
| Echo: Right and the grammar pattern is subject plus 有 (Yǒu) plus object. |
| Anthony: Okay so what we are going to do now to make everything from this lesson stick is to combine our vocabulary words with our grammar point. |
| Echo: Okay the first example from the dialogue 你们有烟吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu yān ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have cigarettes? |
| Echo: 你们有烟吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu yān ma?) |
| Anthony: Okay there is two ways to answer this question. You can say yes, I do have cigarettes. |
| Echo: 有 (Yǒu) |
| Anthony: Or no, I do not have cigarettes. |
| Echo: 没有。 (Méiyǒu.) |
| Anthony: Great. Let’s hear our next example. |
| Echo: Next one is also from the dialogue 你们有啤酒吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu píjiǔ ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have any beer? |
| Echo: 你们有啤酒吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu píjiǔ ma?) |
| Anthony: And once again the two possible answers are |
| Echo: 有 (Yǒu) |
| Anthony: Yes I do have beer. |
| Echo: Or 没有 (Méiyǒu) |
| Anthony: No I don’t have any beer, and notice that you don’t have to repeat the entire sentence. All you have to do simply is say yes or no. |
| Echo: 有 or… (Yǒu or…) |
| Anthony: So now we are going to use the vocabulary that we’ve learned and we are going to put it into our sample sentences. |
| Echo: Okay. 你们有方便面吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu fāngbiànmiàn ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have any instant noodles? |
| Echo: 你们有方便面吗？ (Nǐmen yǒu fāngbiànmiàn ma?) Yeah and I guess the answer must be 有。 (Yǒu.) |
| Anthony: Yes absolutely must be. |
| Echo: 这儿有牛奶吗？ (Zhè'er yǒu niúnǎi ma?) |
| Anthony: Is there milk here? |
| Echo: 这儿有牛奶吗？ (Zhè'er yǒu niúnǎi ma?) |
| Anthony: Okay so another thing we want to point out is, you can omit the subject when it is implied. For example |
| Echo: 有可乐吗？ (Yǒu kělè ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have cola? |
| Echo: 有可乐吗？ (Yǒu kělè ma?) |
| Anthony: Okay the subject that we omitted was |
| Echo: 你们 (Nǐmen) |
| Anthony: Yeah you guys. |
| Echo: Uh-huh. |
| Anthony: As in the store. |
| Echo: Yeah. |
| Anthony: Okay our next sample. |
| Echo: 有冰红茶吗？ (Yǒu bīng hóngchá ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have any iced red tea? |
| Echo: 有冰红茶吗？ (Yǒu bīng hóngchá ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have any iced red tea? |
| Echo: 有冰绿茶吗？ (Yǒu bīng lǜchá ma?) |
| Anthony: Do you have any iced green tea? |
| Echo: 有冰绿茶吗？ (Yǒu bīng lǜchá ma?) |
| Anthony: Okay now let’s go over some sample sentences where we use a complete sentence using the negative. |
| Echo: 没有。我们没有果汁。 (Méiyǒu. Wǒmen méiyǒu guǒzhī.) |
| Anthony: We don’t have any juice. |
| Echo: 我们没有果汁。 (Wǒmen méiyǒu guǒzhī.) |
| Anthony: Okay next one. |
| Echo: 这儿没有土豆片。 (Zhè'er méiyǒu tǔdòu piàn.) |
| Anthony: There aren’t any potato chips here. |
| Echo: 这儿没有土豆片。 (Zhè'er méiyǒu tǔdòu piàn.) |
| Anthony: Okay so we’ve gone over a lot of vocabulary that you are going to use when buying snacks and drinks at a convenience store. |
| Echo: And we also reviewed 有 (Yǒu) and 没有。(méiyǒu.) |
| Anthony: Okay so while this information is fresh in your minds right now, the key to long term retention is review. |
| Echo: Right. |
| Anthony: So do yourself a favor. Sign up for a premium subscription at chineseclass101.com |
| Echo: Yes download the lesson note PDFs and review these materials in a day or two. |
| Anthony: Yes this method is guaranteed to work and you are going to notice the results really fast. |
| Echo: Yes. |
Outro |
| Anthony: Okay so with that, that’s our podcast and from Beijing, I am Anthony. |
| Echo: 我是Echo。 (Wǒ shì Echo.) |
| Anthony: Thanks for listening and we will see you next time. |
| Echo: 下次见， (Xià cì jiàn,) Bye bye. |
| Anthony: Bye bye. |
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