Lesson 023. How Old Are You?

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Melnyks Chinese

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This lesson is about asking “how old are you?” question in Chinese. There are different ways of asking the question “how old are you?” in Chinese, it depends on the age of the person you are talking to. Asking a child is different from asking a person of your age or an elderly person. Buy your friend a birthday cake and sing a “Happy Birthday Song” in Chinese! Find out what animal are you according to Chinese Lunar calendar, etc. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.

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0:00.0	Nihau, dear listeners, this is Serge and you're listening to Mandarin Chinese with Serge Melnik.
0:11.0	Lesson 23.
0:13.0	This lesson is about asking age in Mandarin Chinese.
0:18.0	And let's start with learning some new words from this lesson.
0:23.6	The first word is age.
0:30.6	An age in Mandarin Chinese will be sui age or years old
0:43.3	for example
0:47.3	for example
0:50.3	she is 25 years old
0:53.3	will be He 25-5-sue-sue.
0:58.0	Ta means she,
1:02.0	25,
1:04.0	age or years old.
1:09.0	Good job. Next word is
1:15.6	tisui. Dijsui. And it means how old.
1:24.6	This expression is used when you were asking age of a child.
1:31.3	For example,
1:36.3	You jii-sui.
1:39.3	How old are you?
1:42.3	And the answer is I'm 3 years
1:47.0	I'm 3 years old
1:51.0	Giy Sui
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