HSK 1 - Day 1: Ordering Drinks in Chinese | Beginner Speaking Practice — Transcript
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- 0:00one of the problems of learning Mandarin
- 0:03Chinese is that although we learned lots
- 0:07of words and expressions we don't have
- 0:09enough opportunities to practice what we
- 0:12learned
- 0:13to solve this problem we came up with
- 0:16this course where you will not only
- 0:19understand one conversation in each
- 0:22lesson pretty easily but also have lots
- 0:26of chances of practicing them throughout
- 0:29the course
- 0:31so this course will really help you
- 0:33Hammer the hsk level 1 Chinese
- 0:36vocabulary into your mind
- 0:39and hopefully you will never forget them
- 0:43so without further Ado let's start
- 0:45lesson one long woman
- 0:49listen to this conversation first in the
- 0:52rest of the lesson you will participate
- 0:54in the related dialogues by the end of
- 0:57the lesson you will understand the
- 0:59entire conversation
- 1:01foreign
- 1:16comes over to greet you in Mandarin
- 1:19Chinese listen carefully to what she
- 1:21says
- 1:23Nihao
- 1:24ni ha
- 1:27this word means hello
- 1:30it literally means you good
- 1:33the Chinese speaker is going to break it
- 1:35down into characters starting from the
- 1:38last one repeat after her
- 1:45knee
- 1:48knee
- 1:50how do you say hello in Mandarin
- 1:54Nihao
- 1:58Chinese spoken language uses stones
- 2:01when you repeat what she says try your
- 2:04best to make it sound exactly like what
- 2:06she says so say again
- 2:09Nihao
- 2:11ni hao
- 2:14now the verb drink
- 2:16sounds like this
- 2:25how do you say drink in Mandarin
- 2:32say it again
- 2:37do you remember how to say hello
- 2:41Nihao
- 2:45if Nihao literally means you good
- 2:49can you guess how to say you drink
- 3:00so the word you is me
- 3:07now the word I in Mandarin is
- 3:11whoa
- 3:14whoa
- 3:18repeat after her again
- 3:27how do you refer to yourself in memory
- 3:31well
- 3:37say drink
- 3:40who
- 3:43how do you say I drink
- 3:55and you drink
- 4:04now let's put them side by side
- 4:15again
- 4:25some of you might be familiar with the
- 4:27word tea it is
- 4:33cha
- 4:36how do you say drink tea
- 4:47how do you say I again
- 4:51whoa
- 4:55then say I drink tea
- 5:08now say you drink tea
- 5:18and say hello again
- 5:23nihal
- 5:28now imagine you walked into a tea house
- 5:31and say
- 5:32hello I drink tea
- 5:46in Mandarin the way to turn a statement
- 5:49into a question is to add the character
- 5:51Ma
- 5:52at the end of a statement
- 5:55now say again I drink tea
- 6:07and then turn that into a question do I
- 6:11drink tea
- 6:21how do you ask do you drink tea
- 6:27foreign
- 6:32let's put them side by side now
- 6:48say hello again
- 6:56when a waitress comes to you and greet
- 6:58you and then ask if you drink tea how
- 7:01does she ask
- 7:04Ed him
- 7:13you answer yes listen and repeat after
- 7:16her
- 7:21say again I drink tea
- 7:31how do you say yes
- 7:39say it again
- 7:41she
- 7:44now put them together and say yes I
- 7:47drink tea
- 7:52she
- 7:58ask again do you drink tea
- 8:04foreign
- 8:09how do you answer affirmatively
- 8:19here is red in Mandarin
- 8:22Hong
- 8:26how do you say red tea
- 8:33and green in Mandarin is
- 8:36Lee
- 8:40then how do you say green tea
- 8:48how to say drink red tea
- 8:58and drink green tea
- 9:08how do you ask someone
- 9:10drink red tea
- 9:19how about the question drink green tea
- 9:31now adding the pronoun
- 9:33I say I drink red tea
- 9:37foreign
- 9:57now the question do you drink red tea
- 10:09do I drink green tea
- 10:19here's a new word milk
- 10:22repeat after her
- 10:24night
- 10:27night
- 10:32again pay attention to the tones try to
- 10:35make it sound exactly like her
- 10:39we like milk tea a lot
- 10:41can you guess how to say milk tea
- 10:54to say the word want or would like to
- 10:57you can say
- 11:07how do you say want to drink
- 11:11xiangku
- 11:17I want to drink
- 11:25what about you want to drink
- 11:34now I'll try to say want to drink tea
- 11:44foreign
- 11:46want to drink milk
- 11:56what about want to drink milk tea
- 12:08and want to drink red tea
- 12:20then want to drink green tea
- 12:26Lucha
- 12:32if you want to drink red tea how do you
- 12:35say it
- 12:46how about you want to drink green tea
- 12:53Lucha
- 13:00remember how to turn a statement into a
- 13:02question
- 13:03try to ask do you want to drink milk tea
- 13:16try again
- 13:24foreign
- 13:28yes
- 13:32she
- 13:36now answering a more complete sentence
- 13:38say yes I want to drink milk tea
- 13:56the way to say no is
- 13:59four
- 14:01four
- 14:05how do you say no
- 14:13say it again please
- 14:20now the way to turn a positive statement
- 14:22into a negative statement is to add the
- 14:25character boo in front of the verb
- 14:29how do you say don't want
- 14:35Fusion
- 14:39and how do you say don't drink
- 14:51say I drink tea
- 14:59now say I don't drink tea
- 15:09what about you don't drink tea
- 15:19and say I want to
- 15:24wash Young
- 15:29and then say I don't want to
- 15:34well
- 15:38then say you want to
- 15:43amnesia
- 15:47and now say you don't want to
- 15:58what about I want to drink
- 16:08and then I don't want to drink
- 16:15foreign
- 16:20now you walk into the tea house and you
- 16:23tell the waitress that you want to drink
- 16:24tea
- 16:26how do you say it in Mandarin
- 16:37how does the waitress ask you
- 16:39do you want to drink red tea
- 16:51foreign
- 17:15do you remember how to say milk
- 17:20Nai
- 17:24what about milk tea
- 17:34you want to let the waitress know that
- 17:36you want to drink milk tea how do you
- 17:38express this
- 17:45huh
- 17:52now here's how to say what
- 17:55foreign
- 18:04try to ask what tea
- 18:06you are basically asking what type of
- 18:08tea
- 18:22ask what milk
- 18:30oh
- 18:34when the waitress comes to you you say I
- 18:37want to drink tea
- 18:47then the waitress clarifies what tea
- 18:58you answer red tea
- 19:04Hong cha
- 19:08before you answer the waitress wants to
- 19:11guess
- 19:12so she asks do you want to drink red tea
- 19:27you don't want to drink red tea so you
- 19:29answered No I don't want
- 19:33foreign
- 19:40you want to make it clear so you repeat
- 19:43it in the full sentence
- 19:45I don't want to drink red tea
- 20:00now challenge yourself to say a longer
- 20:02sentence
- 20:04no I don't want to drink red tea I want
- 20:07to drink milk tea
- 20:33now listen to the whole conversation
- 20:34again and see if you can understand and
- 20:37follow
- 20:38foreign
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