Lesson 003. More Greetings and Expressing Needs in Chinese.

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🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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More greetings and expressing basic needs in Chinese. Learn how to say ‘I want…’ or ‘I don’t want’ and a lot more!
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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to the third lesson of the series Mandarin Chinese Lessons podcast.
0:10.9	My name is Serge and today we will talk about expressing basic needs in Mandarin Chinese.
0:19.7	But before we start, I'd like to check how you remember
0:23.6	Chinese tones and the vocabulary of the previous lesson. So when we greet somebody in Chinese
0:32.6	what do we say to him or to her? That's right.
0:39.1	We say,
0:40.8	Nihua.
0:43.4	Nihau.
0:45.5	And if someone is saying hello to you, how do you answer?
0:50.9	Great, the answer is also,
0:54.4	Nihao.
0:57.0	Now, we haven't seen somebody for ages,
1:01.5	and then we suddenly bump into this person on the street.
1:06.2	What do we say first?
1:08.6	Hao, Jiu, Bu, Jien. Nihao ma. we say first? How jiu bian?
1:12.8	You
1:13.5	how
1:14.3	ma?
1:16.1	How
1:16.4	don't
1:17.1	see?
1:18.7	Nih
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