Lesson 011. Bargaining in Mandarin Chinese.

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this lesson you will learn how to buy things and how to bargain in Mandarin Chinese, also you will learn more numbers and Chinese monetary units. At the end of the lesson there are answers to the worksheet of Lesson 10. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 252+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.

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0:00.0	Dear listeners,
0:11.0	Welcome to Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnik,
0:19.0	and you're listening to Lesson 11. This lesson's theme is
0:24.6	buying and bargaining. We're going to learn some basic expressions useful when you want to buy
0:33.6	something. I'm not sure if you already know, but if you want to buy things in China,
0:39.5	you have to bargain. Here, bargaining is like an art. It's a wisdom which every coming
0:48.5	to China foreigner should learn. Before we start, to learn how to bargain, it's better if we learn some basic
0:58.7	words and expressions. Otherwise the bargaining will not be very effective. So are you
1:06.8	ready? Great, let's get started.
1:11.6	And first let's learn some new words of this lesson.
1:15.6	The first word is my, which means to buy.
1:20.6	My, my.
1:24.6	To sell will be my.
1:33.3	My.
1:35.3	My.
1:37.3	Please pay attention.
1:40.3	The sound is the same as in the word buy, my.
1:45.0	The only difference is its tone.
1:48.0	Okay, so my to buy is pronounced in the third tone
1:55.0	and my to sell is pronounced in the fourth tone.
2:00.0	So please make sure you say what you want to say.
2:03.6	Okay, very good.
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