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HSK 1 - Day 1: Ordering Drinks in Chinese | Beginner Speaking Practice — Transcript

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  1. 0:00one of the problems of learning Mandarin
  2. 0:03Chinese is that although we learned lots
  3. 0:07of words and expressions we don't have
  4. 0:09enough opportunities to practice what we
  5. 0:12learned
  6. 0:13to solve this problem we came up with
  7. 0:16this course where you will not only
  8. 0:19understand one conversation in each
  9. 0:22lesson pretty easily but also have lots
  10. 0:26of chances of practicing them throughout
  11. 0:29the course
  12. 0:31so this course will really help you
  13. 0:33Hammer the hsk level 1 Chinese
  14. 0:36vocabulary into your mind
  15. 0:39and hopefully you will never forget them
  16. 0:43so without further Ado let's start
  17. 0:45lesson one long woman
  18. 0:49listen to this conversation first in the
  19. 0:52rest of the lesson you will participate
  20. 0:54in the related dialogues by the end of
  21. 0:57the lesson you will understand the
  22. 0:59entire conversation
  23. 1:01foreign
  24. 1:16comes over to greet you in Mandarin
  25. 1:19Chinese listen carefully to what she
  26. 1:21says
  27. 1:23Nihao
  28. 1:24ni ha
  29. 1:27this word means hello
  30. 1:30it literally means you good
  31. 1:33the Chinese speaker is going to break it
  32. 1:35down into characters starting from the
  33. 1:38last one repeat after her
  34. 1:45knee
  35. 1:48knee
  36. 1:50how do you say hello in Mandarin
  37. 1:54Nihao
  38. 1:58Chinese spoken language uses stones
  39. 2:01when you repeat what she says try your
  40. 2:04best to make it sound exactly like what
  41. 2:06she says so say again
  42. 2:09Nihao
  43. 2:11ni hao
  44. 2:14now the verb drink
  45. 2:16sounds like this
  46. 2:25how do you say drink in Mandarin
  47. 2:32say it again
  48. 2:37do you remember how to say hello
  49. 2:41Nihao
  50. 2:45if Nihao literally means you good
  51. 2:49can you guess how to say you drink
  52. 3:00so the word you is me
  53. 3:07now the word I in Mandarin is
  54. 3:11whoa
  55. 3:14whoa
  56. 3:18repeat after her again
  57. 3:27how do you refer to yourself in memory
  58. 3:31well
  59. 3:37say drink
  60. 3:40who
  61. 3:43how do you say I drink
  62. 3:55and you drink
  63. 4:04now let's put them side by side
  64. 4:15again
  65. 4:25some of you might be familiar with the
  66. 4:27word tea it is
  67. 4:33cha
  68. 4:36how do you say drink tea
  69. 4:47how do you say I again
  70. 4:51whoa
  71. 4:55then say I drink tea
  72. 5:08now say you drink tea
  73. 5:18and say hello again
  74. 5:23nihal
  75. 5:28now imagine you walked into a tea house
  76. 5:31and say
  77. 5:32hello I drink tea
  78. 5:46in Mandarin the way to turn a statement
  79. 5:49into a question is to add the character
  80. 5:51Ma
  81. 5:52at the end of a statement
  82. 5:55now say again I drink tea
  83. 6:07and then turn that into a question do I
  84. 6:11drink tea
  85. 6:21how do you ask do you drink tea
  86. 6:27foreign
  87. 6:32let's put them side by side now
  88. 6:48say hello again
  89. 6:56when a waitress comes to you and greet
  90. 6:58you and then ask if you drink tea how
  91. 7:01does she ask
  92. 7:04Ed him
  93. 7:13you answer yes listen and repeat after
  94. 7:16her
  95. 7:21say again I drink tea
  96. 7:31how do you say yes
  97. 7:39say it again
  98. 7:41she
  99. 7:44now put them together and say yes I
  100. 7:47drink tea
  101. 7:52she
  102. 7:58ask again do you drink tea
  103. 8:04foreign
  104. 8:09how do you answer affirmatively
  105. 8:19here is red in Mandarin
  106. 8:22Hong
  107. 8:26how do you say red tea
  108. 8:33and green in Mandarin is
  109. 8:36Lee
  110. 8:40then how do you say green tea
  111. 8:48how to say drink red tea
  112. 8:58and drink green tea
  113. 9:08how do you ask someone
  114. 9:10drink red tea
  115. 9:19how about the question drink green tea
  116. 9:31now adding the pronoun
  117. 9:33I say I drink red tea
  118. 9:37foreign
  119. 9:57now the question do you drink red tea
  120. 10:09do I drink green tea
  121. 10:19here's a new word milk
  122. 10:22repeat after her
  123. 10:24night
  124. 10:27night
  125. 10:32again pay attention to the tones try to
  126. 10:35make it sound exactly like her
  127. 10:39we like milk tea a lot
  128. 10:41can you guess how to say milk tea
  129. 10:54to say the word want or would like to
  130. 10:57you can say
  131. 11:07how do you say want to drink
  132. 11:11xiangku
  133. 11:17I want to drink
  134. 11:25what about you want to drink
  135. 11:34now I'll try to say want to drink tea
  136. 11:44foreign
  137. 11:46want to drink milk
  138. 11:56what about want to drink milk tea
  139. 12:08and want to drink red tea
  140. 12:20then want to drink green tea
  141. 12:26Lucha
  142. 12:32if you want to drink red tea how do you
  143. 12:35say it
  144. 12:46how about you want to drink green tea
  145. 12:53Lucha
  146. 13:00remember how to turn a statement into a
  147. 13:02question
  148. 13:03try to ask do you want to drink milk tea
  149. 13:16try again
  150. 13:24foreign
  151. 13:28yes
  152. 13:32she
  153. 13:36now answering a more complete sentence
  154. 13:38say yes I want to drink milk tea
  155. 13:56the way to say no is
  156. 13:59four
  157. 14:01four
  158. 14:05how do you say no
  159. 14:13say it again please
  160. 14:20now the way to turn a positive statement
  161. 14:22into a negative statement is to add the
  162. 14:25character boo in front of the verb
  163. 14:29how do you say don't want
  164. 14:35Fusion
  165. 14:39and how do you say don't drink
  166. 14:51say I drink tea
  167. 14:59now say I don't drink tea
  168. 15:09what about you don't drink tea
  169. 15:19and say I want to
  170. 15:24wash Young
  171. 15:29and then say I don't want to
  172. 15:34well
  173. 15:38then say you want to
  174. 15:43amnesia
  175. 15:47and now say you don't want to
  176. 15:58what about I want to drink
  177. 16:08and then I don't want to drink
  178. 16:15foreign
  179. 16:20now you walk into the tea house and you
  180. 16:23tell the waitress that you want to drink
  181. 16:24tea
  182. 16:26how do you say it in Mandarin
  183. 16:37how does the waitress ask you
  184. 16:39do you want to drink red tea
  185. 16:51foreign
  186. 17:15do you remember how to say milk
  187. 17:20Nai
  188. 17:24what about milk tea
  189. 17:34you want to let the waitress know that
  190. 17:36you want to drink milk tea how do you
  191. 17:38express this
  192. 17:45huh
  193. 17:52now here's how to say what
  194. 17:55foreign
  195. 18:04try to ask what tea
  196. 18:06you are basically asking what type of
  197. 18:08tea
  198. 18:22ask what milk
  199. 18:30oh
  200. 18:34when the waitress comes to you you say I
  201. 18:37want to drink tea
  202. 18:47then the waitress clarifies what tea
  203. 18:58you answer red tea
  204. 19:04Hong cha
  205. 19:08before you answer the waitress wants to
  206. 19:11guess
  207. 19:12so she asks do you want to drink red tea
  208. 19:27you don't want to drink red tea so you
  209. 19:29answered No I don't want
  210. 19:33foreign
  211. 19:40you want to make it clear so you repeat
  212. 19:43it in the full sentence
  213. 19:45I don't want to drink red tea
  214. 20:00now challenge yourself to say a longer
  215. 20:02sentence
  216. 20:04no I don't want to drink red tea I want
  217. 20:07to drink milk tea
  218. 20:33now listen to the whole conversation
  219. 20:34again and see if you can understand and
  220. 20:37follow
  221. 20:38foreign

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