Archive for June, 2006
Learn Beginner Chinese 8
This is my book
Zhè shì wǒde shū.
We are going to teach you how to express persessive in Chinese: my book, your chair, my tea, your coffee etc. The key word is “de”, similar to the French “de” and Spanish “de”. The possessive is fairly straight forward in Chinese, it can be expressed by a simple formula: Pronoun + de + object.
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June 26th, 2006
Learn Beginner Chinese 7
She is Evelyn and she is a nurse.
Tā shì Evelyn, tā shì hùshi.
We learned two pronouns in the previous lessons: I (wǒ) and you(nǐ). We are going to teach you how to say he and she in Chinese. We will also learn several interesting words about profession such as teacher, student, doctor, and nurse.
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June 14th, 2006
Learn Beginner Chinese 6
Is that a watch? - N shìbúshi shǒubiǎo?
We are going to learn how to say cup, watch and telephone in Chinese. We learned how to say “this” in Chinese already and I am certain by now you must be very comfortable using it. So in this session’s learnchinesepod we would not bring it up again to bombard your ear, we are going to discover “n ” - the brother of “zhè”.
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June 10th, 2006