Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Beginner Spoken Chinese - Lesson023 - some food in Chinese




Hello Dajia hao. This is John. We will learn how to say bread, egg, milk and other food in Chinese today.

1. Bread miànbāo
We say mi
ànbāo for bread in Chinese. Mian means flour, Bao means bag. Am I right that Bread in Chinese is a bag made of flour? Yes, I am right. So Mianbao, literally flour bag is bread.
As Mian means flour in Chinese, then we have word miàntiáo noodle. Here Tiao means strip. Miantiao literally is flour strip.
As Bao means bag, we have word Baozi which is another kind of common Chinese food translated as steamed stuffed bun in the dictionary. 


2. Egg jīdàn
In Chinese Ji means chicken, Dan means egg, so Jidan is basically Chicken eggs. It is very common we have duck eggs and quail eggs. Yādàn duck egg. Ānchúndàn quail egg.
We even have a kind of egg called pídàn. In English it is called 1000-year egg. You have to try it when you are in China. Anyway I like it.


3. Milk niúnǎi
In Chinese Niu means cattle, it could be ox, cow or bull, it is a general idea. Nǎi means milk. Niunai literally means cow milk.
We have goat milk too, it is called yánɡnǎi, Yang is also a general conception. It could be sheep, mutton or goat.


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Saturday, January 16, 2016

listening with Chinese subtitles – Ordinary Chinese people in 2015-Learn Chinese with the News

listening with Chinese subtitles – Ordinary Chinese people in 2015 - Learn Chinese with the News


SCRIPT
1
Dajiahao
Hello

2
Jinnian 9 yue
In Sepetember this year

3
Weipeng dang baba le
Weipeng became a father

4
Zhe shi Qiqi yi ge yue de shihou women de heying
This is the photo when Qiqi was 1 month old

5
Zhe shi Huanghe bian de jige haizi zai wan youxi
This is a child playing games by the Yellow river

6
Haizimen de youxi
Children’s games

7
shi tongnian meihao de huiyi.
are childrenhood memories

8
2015 nian wo erzi chengwei dayi xinsheng
In 2015, my son became a freshman

9
Dui haizi lai shuo, zou chu le rensheng zhong zhongyao de diyibu
For my son, he has taken the very important step in his life.

10
Duiyu jiazhang lai shuo, ye shi xinwei
For parents, we are gratified

11
2015 nian 9 yue 8 ri
Sep 8th 2015

12
Quan jia ren zai huochezhan songxing
All the family members were seeing him off at the realway station

13
Kuai biye le
Nearly graduate

14
Danshi hai meiyou zhaodao gongzuo
But I haven’t found a job yet

15
Qu jiangbian zouzou
go to have a talk by the river

16
Kanzhe yuanchu de gaolou he jinchu zhege chuan xizhuang de ren
Looking at the high buildings and the man with a suit.

17
Bu zhidao ta shibushi ye he wo yiyang
I didn’t know if he was the same as me

18
Zai wei gongzuo fannao zhe
worrying about the job

19
10 yue 31 ri, Shandong
Oct 31th, Shandong

20
Wode yige haopengyou jiehun le
One of my friends got married

21
Zhe zhang shi wo zui xihuan de zhaopian
Here is the picture I like the most

22
Qishi
In fact

23
Xinliang xinniang jia li de bing bu yuan
The bride’s home was not far from the groom’s

24
Ye jiu 10 ji fenzhong de checheng
Only about 10 minutes by car

25
Danshi xinniang ku de hen lihai
But the bride was crying very hard.

– Update very Friday.
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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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