Monday, December 21, 2015

listening with Chinese subtitles- Beijing smog-Learn Chinese with the News





Learn Chinese with the news. This week, Beijing had a really bad air pollution, restricting traffic, closing schools and shutting construction sites. Residents tell you what it's like. It is from CNN, I made it in Chinese and it will help your listening.




xiǎo jiāng suì chú shī mái jiù xiàng qián
1 贾小江 30 厨师 毒气 以前



sǎng zi cóng méi téng guò dàn shì cóng nián kāi shǐ shuō huà
嗓子 从没 但是 去年 开始 说话



de shí hou sǎng zi zhí téng
时候 嗓子 一直



gāo yuán suì yùn shū gōng rén
2 高元丽 35 运输 工人



shēng huó jīng hěn yǒu le guǒ kōng hěn chà
生活 已经 压力 如果 空气



shēng huó huì gèng róng
生活 容易





xiān sheng suì guàn
3 先生 33 习惯



le mái guǒ yǒu tiān tiān shì lán de dào jué de
如果 天天 觉得



zhèng cháng
正常



tián píng yóu zhí zhě de hái zi yīn wèi
4 田丽 自由职业 孩子 因为



mái le qīng fèi yán jīng bìng le duō tiān le
得了 轻度 肺炎 已经 20



yuàn dōu shì dào gǎn rǎn shāo de hái zi
医院 里都 呼吸道 感染 发烧 孩子





liú hàn líng suì shāng dài zài běi jīng mái tài
5 刘汉灵 30 商业 代理 北京



zhèng cháng le guǒ yǒu hái zi huì gèng jiā xiǎo xīn
正常 如果 孩子 更加 小心



bǎo
保护



jiāng suì shū fēn xiāo shāng jiù shì
6 江宇 26 图书 分销商 就是
zhè yàng men néng zuò shén me néng hài
这样 我们 什么 不能 害怕 必须



qián jìn zhī dào
前进 知道




Here is the link from CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/08/world/gallery/beijing-pollution-red-alert-quotes/index.html

The news for today -
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I help you improve your Chinese by explaining news in both Chinese and some necessary English. I hope it helps a lot.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Learn Interesting Chinese characters - 看书 -kanshu reading



Learn Interesting Chinese characters. We will
learn how to write
看书(kànshū)Read a Book.

看(kànmeans to look, watch, see. Just any action with your eyes. It
is made up of a hand and an eye. The above radical is Hand, the bottom radical
is eye.  


书(shū)means book. It is a easy
character to write. Have a look at the old character for BOOK, it might help
you to remember. It looks like a hand is holding a brush to write on something.


看书(kànshū)together means “read a book”. Literally it is to look at a
book.






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Monday, December 14, 2015

Beginner Spoken Chinese - Lesson022 - Excuse me



In this video, we will learn how to say Excuse
me in Chinese


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Hello Dajia hao. This is John. We will learn how
to say Excuse me in Chinese today.

1. Excuse
me


2. Excuse me, I am late.

3. Excuse me, I am sick.

4. Excuse me, I can’t go to the party
5. Excuse me, I can’t
attend the activity.



1. b
ùhǎoyìsi

Excuse me is b
ùhǎoyìsi in Chinese. You know,
BUHAO means not good, YISI means meaning in Chinese. It seems we say “It’s a
not a good meaning” when we say Excuse me, but it means excuse me.




2. w
ǒ wǎn le

WO WAN LE means I am late. WO is I, WAN means
late. You put le after late to show it happened.




3. w
ǒ bìnɡl le
Similar
with WO WAN LE, WO BING LE means I am sick. Again, LE here is to show the
situation happened. 




4. w
ǒ bù nénɡ cānjiā jùhuì

It means I can’t go to the party. CANJIA means
to attend, We say JUHUI for a party. You can also use p
àiduì for party which is directly
translated by sound of party.

5. wǒ bùnénɡ cānjiā huódònɡ
I can’t
attend the activity. CANJIA means to attend. HUODONG means activity.


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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Learn Chinese with the News - The Chinese spring travel - the largest mo...





The news for today - The Chinese spring travel - the largest movement in the world

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This video will play 3 times. First time is only in Chinese, Second time with Pinyin subtitles, third time with Pinyin and English subtitles, I hope it will help your listening much better than before.



Here is the subtitles in Pinyin and English

1

dajia hao

Hello everybody



2

wo shi John

I am John



3

 jintian women lai shuo Chunyun

Today we are going to talk about CHUNYUN



4

chun jiu shi Chunjie

CHUN is CHUNJIE(spring festival)



5

Yun jiu shi Yunshu

YUN is transport



6

name yiqi

So together



7

chunyun jiu shi shuo

CHUNYUN is to say



8

chunjie de yunshu

transport during the Spring Festival



9

ta shi shuo

It is to say



10

Chunjie qian he chunjie hou

Before and after the Spring Festival



11

dagai 40 tian de shijian

About 40 days



12

zhe duan shijian de yunshu

The transport during this period



13

shouxian women lai shuo chunjie

First we will talk about the Spring Festival



14

ni zhidao

As you know



15

chunjie shi zhongguoren zui zhongyao de jieri

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China



16

chunjie de shihou

When Spring Festival comes



17

suoyouren dou yao hui jia guo nian

Everybody will go back to hometown to celebrate the new year



18

yinwei henduo ren

Because a lot of people



19

zai waidi gongzuo

work in other cities



20

yi nian keneng zhineng hui jia yi ci

They might only go back hometown once a year



21

qu kankan ta de baba mama

to see Papa and Mama



22

suoyi, dui henduo ren laishuo,

So, for many people



23

chunjie shi zui zhongyao de

The Spring Festival is the most important festival



24

tamen yiding yao hui jia

They must go back to hometown



25

name

So



26

you duoshao ren

How many people



27

chunjie hui jia ne?

go back during the Spring Festival?



28

2015 nian, ye jiu shi qunian

In 2015 or last year



29

yigong you 37 yi renci

Totally there were 3.7 billion trips



30

zai chunjie qijian hui jia

went back to hometown during the Spring Festival



31

37 yi ren

3.7 billion trips!



32

henduo ren

Many people



33

zhege renshu xiangdangyu

This number equals to



34

feizhou,ouzhou,dayangzhou he meizhou de zonghe

the population of Africa, Europe, Oceania and America



35

zheme duo ren hui jia

Such a huge number of people go home



36

mai piao shi feichang nan de

It is very hard to buy the tickets



37

dajia kan zheli

Please look at here



38

zhe shi yi ge maipiao de ren

Here is a buy-ticket-man



39

ta paidui pai le liang tian

He had been queuing for 2 days



40

cai mai dao yi zhang huoche piao

He just bought one train ticket.



41

ruguo ni mai dao le piao

If you had a ticket



42

name shangche ye shi hen nan de

then it is also hard to get on the train



43

zhe shi yi ge huochezhan

This is a railway station



44

yinwei tai duo de ren tamen yao shang huoche

Because so many people want to get on the train



45

suoyi, shangche ye hen nan

So, to get on a train is also very hand



46

kankan zhege zhaopian

Look at this picure



47

zai kankan zhege zhaopian

look at this picure too



48

yinwei huoche shang you tai duo de ren

Because there were so many people on the train



49

keneng ni zhineng cong chechuang shang huoche le

Probably you have to get on the train through the window.



50

zai chexiang li shi shenme yang de ne?

How about inside the train



51

ye shi renshanrenhai

It is also PEOPLE MOUNTIAN PEOPLE SEA



52

daochu shi ren he xingli

People and luggages are very everywhere.



53

shijishang

In fact



54

chunyun shi yi ge hen tongku de guocheng

Spring Festival travel is a very painful process



55

2016 nian de chunyun mashang jiu dao le

The 2016 Spring Festival travel is coming soon



56

wo xiwang

I hope



57

suoyoude ren dou keyi mai dao yi ge chepiao

Everybody can get a ticket



58

dou keyi shunli de hui jia

Everybody can go back home smoothly



59

xiexie

Thanks



60

zhe jiu shi jintian de xinwen

This is the news for today



61

guanyu chunyun

About the Spring transport



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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Learn Interesting Chinese characters 上网 (shang4wang3) surf the internet



Learn Interesting Chinese characters 上网(shànɡwǎnɡ)surf the internet

Learn
Interesting Chinese characters. We will learn how to write Surf the internet
today.
上网(shànɡwǎnɡ).

(shànɡ) means up in Chinese. It also has the meaning “to go up”.  


(wǎnɡ) originally means fishing net. Right now it also means
internet.

上网(shànɡwǎnɡ)together means “surf the internet”.
Another example 上山(shànɡshān)“go up the mountain. Here we use as
a verb too.




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Monday, December 7, 2015

Beginner Spoken Chinese - Lesson021- How to say Merry Christmas in Chinese



1.
Happy new year,
2.
Happy birthday
3.
Happy Christmas
4. Wish
you…

1.      
Happy new year
We
will say x
īnnián kuàilè in Chinese. Xīn means newnián means yearkuàilè is happy. So basically we say New Year Happy in Chinese.

2.      
Happy birthday
Birthday
in Chinese is sh
ēnɡrì,shēnɡ is birthrì is day. So Happy birthday in
Chinese we say Birthday Happy sh
ēnɡrì kuàilè。

3.      
Happy Christmas
First
of all
jié in Chinese means festivalChristmas we
will say sh
ènɡdàn or shènɡdàn jié in Chinese. Of course, with the
order we just learned, we say sh
ènɡdiànjiè kuàilè for Happy Christmas.

4.      
wish you…
Wish
you… in Chinese we will say zh
ù nǐ… For example, zhù nǐ shènɡdàn jié kuàilè means Merry Christmas


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Friday, December 4, 2015

Learn Chinese with the News - China has new RMB banknote



This video will play 3 times. First time is only in Chinese, Second time with Pinyin subtitles, third time with Pinyin and English subtitles, I hope it will help your listening much better than before.



The news for today - China has new RMB banknote



Here is the subtitles in Pinyin and English



liang ge xingqi yiqian

Two weeks ago



zhongguo renmin yinhang faxing le xin de renminbi zhibi

The People’s Bank of China issued new RMB banknote



zhege jiushi xin de

This is the new



renminbi de zhibi

RMB banknote



xin de renminbi he lao de renminbi you shenme bu yiyang ma?

Is there any difference between new RMB and old RMB?



 dangran

Of course



you bu yiyang

There are some differences



nimen kan

Look please



zhege shangmian shi xin de renminbi

The one above is new RMB



xiamian shi lao de renminbi

The one below is old RMB



zhege shuzi 100

This number 100



shi huangse de

is yellow



haiyou zheli duole yi ge anquan xian

And here added a security line



zheli duo le yixie shuzi

Here have some numbers.



haiyou zheli shi bu yiyang de

And here is not the same.



suoyi

So



chabuduo danshi bu yiyang

Similar but not the same



nimen kan zhege xiaohuozi

Look at this young guy



ta na le xin de renminbi, hen gaoxing ma?

He has the new RMB, is he very happy?



 bu shi de, ta bu tai gaoxing.

No, he is not very happy.



yinwei ni zhidao xin de renminbi ganggang faxing

Because you know the new RMB is just issued.



henduo xiao de shangdian tamen bu renshi xin de renminbi

A lot of small shops can't recognize the new RMB



erqie shenzhi henduo yanchaoji ye bu neng shibie xin de renminbi

And even some money detector can't recognize the new RMB



suoyi zhege xiaohuozi zai yinhang na le xin de qian hen gaoxing

So this young guy was very happy when he had the new money in the bank



ta qule zhege shangdian qu mai dongxi

He went to this shop to buy stuffs



danshi zhege shangdian shuo, zhege, women buzhidao shi zhende jiade, suoyi women bu neng shou.

But this shop said we didn't know if it was real or not, so we couldn't accept it.



suoyi ta juede hen shiwang.

So he felt very disappionted



ta shuo

He said



ta ba xin de qian gei jizhe kan

He showed the reporter the new money



shuo, wo you  xinde qian

He said, I had the new money



danshi wo hua bu chuqu

but I can't spend them



shijishang, wo ye you zhe ge danxin

In fact, I was also worried about it.



shang ge xinqing

Last week



wo zai yinhang huan le yixie xin de qian

I exchanged some new money from a bank

ranhou wo qu yi ge shangdian

Then I went to a shop



mai dongxi, yong xin de qian

to buy something with the new money



wo danxin tamen bu jieshou zhe ge xin de qian

I was worried that they might reject the new money



danshi, hao xiaoxi shi

But, the good new is



mei wenti

No problem



tamen shuo , en.Kan le yi kan

They said en. They looked at it



keyi

Ok



xiang zheyang

Like this



suoyi wo hen gaoxing

So I was very happy



mei wenti

No problem



haode

Ok



zhe ge jiu shi jintian de xin wen

This is today's news



ni ting dong le ma?

Can you understand?





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I help you improve your Chinese by explaining news in both Chinese and some necessary English. I hope it helps a lot.



Teacher John, zhongshandl@gmail.com

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Learn Interesting Chinese characters 鸡肉 ji1rou4 chicken meat

Learn Interesting Chinese characters 鸡肉(jīròuchicken meat

Learn Interesting Chinese characters. We will
learn how to write chicken meat today. “
鸡肉(jīròuchicken meat”.

(jī) means chicken in Chinese. As you know
means bird, any kinds of bird. If you put beside the bird, you get the character chicken.  


(ròu) means meat. If you cut a meat, you
could see some textile on the meat. This character shows the textile. It is a
piece of meat.

鸡肉together means chicken meat.





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Monday, November 30, 2015

Beginner Spoken Chinese - Lesson 020- I treat



In this video, we will learn how to say: 
1. I treat
2. Bottoms up
3. I am drunk
4. I can't drink

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Interesting Chinese characters 天气tiānqì Weather

We will learn how to write weather today.
天气tiānqì Weather

tiān means sky in Chinese. As you know  means big, it also shows a person is opening his arm. If you put one line above  which means the personIt stands for the sky.


 qì means air. Please look at the oracle bone character, you will find why the word is used to mean air. It looks like air.




The order of the characters




Here is the video

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