Learn the Chinese past perfect tense to help you indicate that something never took place
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Brendan: Welcome to Chineseclass101, the easiest, fastest and funniest way to learn Chinese. I’m Brendan. |
| Echo: 嗨，大家好，我是Echo。(Hāi, dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì Echo.) |
| Brendan: And we’ve a lesson today Lower Intermediate Series, Season 1, Lesson 7 – “The confused Chinese athlete”. |
| Echo: Right. |
| Brendan: This goes out to all of our Canadian listeners. |
| Echo: Yes, all of hockey. |
| Brendan: Yes, your national pastime leading the basis of your economy. It even takes place in Skidding Rick. |
| Echo: Yes. But there’s no hockey’s men here. Just regular mandarin. So, the rest of you, 别担心。(Bié dānxīn.) |
| Brendan: Yes, it’s not a total waste of time. We’re going to take you to the dialogue in a moment, but before we do that, a reminder. We have got online tutors who are standing by just waiting to help you improve your Chinese with customized learning plans, tailored just for you. |
| Echo: 没错。(Méi cuò.) |
| Brendan: Let’s go to the dialogue. |
| Echo: 好的。 (Hǎo de.) |
| DIALOGUE |
| A:你准备好打冰球了吗？ (Nǐ zhǔnbèi hǎo dǎ bīngqiú le ma?) |
| B:是的，不过我很多年没玩了。(Shì de, búguò wǒ hěn duōniánméi wán le.) |
| A:你的冰鞋呢？(Nǐ de bīngxié ne?) |
| B:冰鞋？(Bīngxié?) |
| A:还有，你的球杆呢？(Hái yǒu, nǐ de qiú gān ne?) |
| B:球杆？哎呀，好冷啊！(Qiú gān? āiya, hǎo Lěng A1!) |
| A:你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wán guo bīngqiú ma?) |
| B:或许我说的是棒球……(Huòxǔ wǒ shuō de shì bàngqiú ......) |
| Brendan: Once more, slowly. |
| A:你准备好打冰球了吗？ (Nǐ zhǔnbèi hǎo dǎ bīngqiú le ma?) |
| B:是的，不过我很多年没玩了。(Shì de, búguò wǒ hěn duōniánméi wán le.) |
| A:你的冰鞋呢？(Nǐ de bīngxié ne?) |
| B:冰鞋？(Bīngxié?) |
| A:还有，你的球杆呢？(Hái yǒu, nǐ de qiú gān ne?) |
| B:球杆？哎呀，好冷啊！(Qiú gān? āiya, hǎo Lěng A1!) |
| A:你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wán guo bīngqiú ma?) |
| B:或许我说的是棒球……(Huòxǔ wǒ shuō de shì bàngqiú ......) |
| Brendan: And now, with English translation. |
| A:你准备好打冰球了吗？ (Nǐ zhǔnbèi hǎo dǎ bīngqiú le ma?) |
| A: Are you ready to play hockey? |
| B:是的，不过我很多年没玩了。(Shì de, búguò wǒ hěn duōniánméi wán le.) |
| B: Yeah, but I haven't played in years. |
| A:你的冰鞋呢？(Nǐ de bīngxié ne?) |
| A: Where are your skates? |
| B:冰鞋？(Bīngxié?) |
| B: Skates? |
| A:还有，你的球杆呢？(Hái yǒu, nǐ de qiú gān ne?) |
| A: And where's your hockey stick? |
| B:球杆？哎呀，好冷啊！(Qiú gān? āiya, hǎo Lěng A1!) |
| B: Hockey stick? Is it so cold? |
| A:你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wán guo bīngqiú ma?) |
| A: Have you played ice hockey before? |
| B:或许我说的是棒球……(Huòxǔ wǒ shuō de shì bàngqiú ......) |
| B: Maybe I mean baseball. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Brendan: This is how I feel about pretty much old sports, actually. Just completely confused. |
| Echo: I went to a hockey game once. The players were cute. |
| Brendan: Were there any Chinese players? |
| Echo: I don’t think so. |
| Brendan: Maybe this guy just got ripped into it. |
| Echo: Well, actually, I don’t know any Chinese who plays hockey. Or heard of it, though. It’s on ice. |
| Brendan: So, so what you’re saying is that this is a pretty realistic dialogue, huh? |
| Echo: I guess so. Sorry, Canada. |
| Brendan: No need to apologize, nobody takes hockey seriously anyway. And we’ve got a full lesson here for maybe the one or two people who do take it seriously. It has all the hockey vocabulary anybody will ever want to know. |
| Echo: And some really useful words in general. |
| Brendan: Let’s get to it. |
| C: And now, the vocab section. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Brendan: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| Echo: 冰球 (bīngqiú) |
| Brendan: “Ice hockey” |
| Echo: 球杆 (qiú gān) |
| Brendan: “Hockey stick” |
| Echo: 运动衫 (yùndòng shān) |
| Brendan: “Sports jersey” |
| Echo: 滑冰 (huábīng) |
| Brendan: “To skate” |
| Echo: 防守 (fángshǒu) |
| Brendan: “To play defense” |
| Echo: 进攻 (jìngōng) |
| Brendan: “To play offense” |
| Echo: 滑冰场 (huábīngchǎng) |
| Brendan: “Skating rink” |
| Echo: 冰鞋 (bīngxié) |
| Brendan: “Ice skates” |
| Echo: 棒球 (bàngqiú) |
| Brendan: “Baseball” |
| Echo: 棒球 (bàngqiú) |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Brendan: All right. Now, let’s take a closer look at the usage for some of the words that we just learned. |
| Echo: Yes. 第一个词:冰球。(Dì yī gè cí: Bīngqiú.) |
| Brendan: “Hockey” |
| Echo: 冰球 (Bīngqiú) |
| Brendan: “Hockey” |
| Echo: 你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: They forced me to play it a couple of times in gym class. |
| Echo: 真的。(Zhēn de.) |
| Brendan: Yes, once or twice, but, you know, I grew up in the States, and so its stereotypically it would be baseball there rather than hockey. |
| Echo: 棒球 (Bàngqiú) |
| Brendan: Yes, “baseball”. |
| Echo: 棒球，你会打棒球吗？(Bàngqiú, nǐ huì dǎ bàngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: What do you think? Not so much. What about you? |
| Echo: 棒球 (Bàngqiú) |
| Brendan: Now, it’s actually interesting. Let’s listen to those verbs again. When you’re playing baseball, you hit it. |
| Echo: 打，打棒球 (Dǎ, dǎ bàngqiú) |
| Brendan: But hockey is something you play. |
| Echo: Yes, usually we’ll say 玩冰球. (Wán bīngqiú.) |
| Brendan: Right. And you do that because it’s a childish game. Something that, really, a grown adult would not take seriously. |
| Echo: Oh, Brendan. |
| Brendan: So, you play it? |
| Echo: Yes. 玩冰球。(Wán bīngqiú.) |
| Brendan: Rather than hitting it as you would with baseball. |
| Echo: Yes. 打棒球。(Dǎ bàngqiú.) |
| Brendan: What about football? Or soccer? |
| Echo: 我们说:踢足球。(Wǒmen shuō: Tī zúqiú.) |
| Brendan: Right. So, you’re literally kicking football. |
| Echo: Yes, 因为用脚，所以:踢足球. (Yīnwèi yòng jiǎo, suǒyǐ: Tī zúqiú.) |
| Brendan: What about bowling? |
| Echo: 打，打保龄球。(Dǎ, dǎ bǎolíngqiú.) |
| Brendan: Now, our next word is? |
| Echo: 滑冰 (Huábīng) |
| Brendan: “To skate” |
| Echo: 滑冰，我特别喜欢滑冰。(Huábīng, wǒ tèbié xǐhuān huábīng.) |
| Brendan: Yes, now that’s literally “to slide”. |
| Echo: Yes. 滑 (Huá) |
| Brendan: And “ice”. |
| Echo: 冰。其实我刚才想说的是“我特别喜欢看人滑冰”。(Bīng. Qíshí wǒ gāngcái xiǎng shuō de shì “wǒ tèbié xǐhuān kàn rén huábīng”.) |
| Brendan: Yes, that’s how I feel about most of this stuff. And, ice skate is not surprisingly close to another word in our vocab list: “ice rink”. |
| Echo: 滑冰场 (Huábīng chǎng) |
| Brendan: Or “skating rink”. |
| Echo: 滑冰场 (Huábīng chǎng) |
| Brendan: Really, a skating arena. |
| Echo: Yes, or you can also say 冰场 (Bīng chǎng) it’s fine. |
| Brendan: Yes. Finally we’ve got words for playing defense and playing offense. |
| Echo: Yes, defense is 防守.(Fángshǒu.) |
| Brendan: And offense is? |
| Echo: 进攻 (Jìngōng) |
| Brendan: Let’s hear those again. |
| Echo: 防守 (Fángshǒu) |
| Brendan: “Defense” |
| Echo: 进攻 (Jìngōng) |
| Brendan: “Offense.” Now, those work for all sports. |
| Echo: Yes. You can say 这个运动员非常善于进攻。(Zhège yùndòngyuán fēicháng shànyú jìngōng.) |
| Brendan: “This player’s really good on offense.” |
| Echo: 这个运动员非常善于进攻。(Zhège yùndòngyuán fēicháng shànyú jìngōng.) |
| Brendan: “This player’s really good on offense.” |
| Echo: Yes, but you won’t say that about a Chinese team. |
| Brendan: Well, certainly not football teams. |
| Echo: You may say this: 这个队的防守不行。(Zhège duì de fángshǒu bùxíng.) |
| Brendan: “This team’s defense is no good.” |
| Echo: 这个队的防守不行。(Zhège duì de fángshǒu bùxíng.) |
| Brendan: And that pretty much comprehensively describes the entire China soccer league. |
| Echo: 差不多 (Chàbùduō) |
| Brendan: So, a lot of sports vocab, and especially hockey related vocabulary. Once again. |
| Echo: 冰球 (Bīngqiú) |
| Brendan: “Ice hockey” |
| Echo: 棒球 (Bàngqiú) |
| Brendan: “Baseball” |
| Echo: 滑冰场 (Huábīng chǎng) |
| Brendan: “Skating rink” |
| Echo: 防守 (Fángshǒu) |
| Brendan: “Defense’ |
| Echo: And 进攻.(Jìngōng.) |
| Brendan: “Offense.” Great. Baring that in mind, let’s go on to the grammar section. This is my favorite part. |
Lesson focus |
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| Echo: And the focus of this lesson is on the Past Perfect Tense. |
| Brendan: Or, its equivalent in Chinese. In our dialogue, we heard this: |
| Echo: 你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: “Have you played hockey before?” |
| Echo: 你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: Now, we’ve run into 过 (guò) before. |
| Echo: Yes. 玩过冰球 or 打过棒球. (Wánguò bīngqiú or dǎguò bàngqiú.) |
| Brendan: Right. We put it after verbs to suggest that the action has happened in the past. |
| Echo: Today we have something more difficult. |
| Brendan: Yes, a little bit. And what it is, is if we add 没 (méi) before our verb, we change the meaning. |
| Echo: 对。(Duì.) |
| Brendan: It suggests that the action never happened. |
| Echo: Then we heard the question: 你没玩过冰球吗? (Nǐ méi wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: “You’ve never played hockey?” |
| Echo: 你没玩过冰球吗? (Nǐ méi wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: “You’ve never played hockey? |
| Echo: Yes. 没 (Méi) verb 过。(Guò.) |
| Brendan: And that just means “never”. How about another example? |
| Echo: Ok. 张明好久没踢过球了。(Zhāng míng hǎojiǔ méi tīguò qiúle.) |
| Brendan: “Zhang Ming hasn’t played soccer in a while.” |
| Echo: 张明好久没踢过球了。(Zhāng míng hǎojiǔ méi tīguò qiúle.) |
| Brendan: “Zhang Ming hasn’t played soccer in a while.” |
| Echo: 他好久没有抽过烟。(Tā hǎojiǔ méiyǒu chōuguò yān.) |
| Brendan: “He hasn’t smoked for a long time.” |
| Echo: 他好久没有抽过烟。(Tā hǎojiǔ méiyǒu chōuguò yān.) |
| Brendan: Yes, good for him. |
| Echo: Yes. 好久 (Hǎojiǔ) We can also say 很久。(Hěnjiǔ.) |
| Brendan: “Very long” |
| Echo: But, before we go, one more thing. |
| Brendan: What’s that? |
| Echo: If someone asked you a question using this 你玩过冰球吗？(Nǐ wánguò bīngqiú ma?) |
| Brendan: Right. You should answer in the same tense. |
| Echo: Right. 玩过 (Wánguò) or 没玩过。(Méi wánguò.) |
| Brendan: Right. You don’t need to repeat the subject. |
| Echo: So, Brandon, 你今年回过家吗？(Nǐ jīnnián huíguò jiā ma?) |
| Brendan: 回过。(Huíguò.) |
| Echo: 哦，很好。(Ó, hěn hǎo.) |
| Brendan: Yes, it was nice. |
| Echo: 你是一个幸福的小孩儿。(Nǐ shì yīgè xìngfú de xiǎo hái'ér.) |
| Brendan: I am filial. 很孝顺 (Hěn xiàoshùn). |
Outro |
| Brendan: Anyway, that just about does it for our lesson for today. Stop by ChineseClass101.com and pick up the lesson notes. |
| Echo: Yes, it has a conversation transcript. |
| Brendan: Vocabulary, sample sentences, a grammar explanation. |
| Echo: And a Cultural Insight section. |
| Brendan: Seen the Chinese written down for you… |
| Echo: Really helps you remember faster. |
| Brendan: But, don’t take our word for it. Please, have a look for yourself. |
| Echo: Yes, and let us know what you think. |
| Brendan: If you have any questions or any comments… |
| Echo: Please come to the site and leave a comment or write to us at contactus@ChineseClass101.com. |
| Brendan: And we look forward to hearing from you. From Beijing, I’m Brendan. |
| Echo: 我是 (Wǒ shì) Echo. |
| Brendan: Have fun. |
| Echo: 下次见，拜拜。(xià cì jiàn, bàibài.) |
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