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Chinese language in 25 days.... !!!! (Day 1)

2011-02-11T04:02:00.000-08:00

菜鸟1 Basic Greetings
A：你好吗?
Nǐ hǎo ma?
How are you?
B： (我)很好，谢谢。
Wǒ hěn hǎo , xiè xie .
Very well, thank you / Fine.
A：你是中国人吗？
Nǐ shì zhōng guó rén ma ?
Are you Chinese?
B：不是,我是美国人。
Bú shì , wǒ shì měi guó rén .
No, I’m American.
Key Vocabulary
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菜鸟2 Where are you from?
A: 他是美国人吗？
Tā shì měi guó rén ma?
Is he American?
B: 不是，他是英国人。
Bú shì,tā shì yīng guó rēn.
No, He’s English.
A：他很忙吗？
Tā hěn máng ma?
Is he very busy?
B：对，他很忙。
Duì,tā hěn máng.
Yes, he’s very busy.
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菜鸟3 Where are you Going?
A: 王先生，你好吗?
Wáng xiān sheng, nǐ hǎo ma?
Mr. Wang, how are you?
B: 我很好，李小姐，你呢？
Wǒ hěn hǎo, lǐ xiǎo jie. Nǐne?
I’m fi ne, Miss Li. And you?
A：我也很好，你去哪里？
Wǒ yě hěn hǎo, nǐ qù nǎ li?
I’m fi ne too. Where are you going?
B：我去学校。
Wǒqùxuéxiào.
I’m going to school.
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菜鸟4 How are you feeling?
A: 你今天好吗?
Nǐ jīn tiān hǎo ma ?
How are you today?
B: 很好，谢谢。你呢?
Hěn hǎo , xiè xie . Nǐ ne ?
Very well. And you?
A：马马虎虎。我今天很累。
Mǎ mǎ hū hū . Wǒ jīn tiān hěn lèi .
So-so. Today, I am very tired.
B：真的吗？为什么？
Zhēn de ma ? Weì shén me ?
Really? Why?
A：因为我很忙。
Yīn wéi wǒ hěn máng .
Because I am very busy.
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菜鸟5 More emotions and their explanations
A: 朱小姐,你好。
Zhū xiǎo jie,nǐ hǎo.
How are you Miss Zhu?
B：你好。
Nǐ hǎo.
Hi/Hello.
A: 你昨天去哪里？
Nǐ zuó tiān qù nǎ li?
Where did you go yesterday?
B: 我昨天去学校。
Wǒ zuó tiān qù xué xiào.
I went to the school yesterday.
A：你昨天开心吗？
Nǐ zuó tiān kāi xīn ma?
Were you happy yesterday?
B: 不，我昨天很难过。
Bù, Wǒ zuó tiān hěn nán guò.
No. I was very upset yesterday.
A：真的吗？为什么？
Zhēn de ma? wèi shén me?
Really? Why?
B: 对不起我不能说。
Duì bù qǐ wǒ bù néng shuō.
I can’t say/I can’t tell you.
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2009-08-05T06:31:00.000-07:00

Section One

Lesson 01 - Phonetics, Hello

Lesson 02 - Phonetics, Thank You

Lesson 03 - Numerals

Lesson 04 - Surname, First Name

Lesson 05 - Country, Nationality

Lesson 06 - City, Native Place

Lesson 07 - Year, Month, Date, Day

Lesson 08 - Birthdays, Age

Lesson 09 - Time, Daily Schedule

Lesson 10 - Public Places

Section Two

Lesson 11 - Daily Necessities, Fruits

Lesson 12 - Buying Things, Prices

Lesson 13 - Wines, Drinks

Lesson 14 - Coffee Bar, Tea House

Lesson 15 - Menu, Foods

Lesson 16 - In the Restaurant

Lesson 17 - Eating Habits

Lesson 18 - Family, Profession

Lesson 19 - Languages, Learning

Lesson 20 - Address, Telephone

Section Three

Lesson 21 - Doing Something

Lesson 22 - Duration of Time

Lesson 23 - Result, Possibility

Lesson 24 - Means of Transportation

Lesson 25 - Direction and Position

Lesson 26 - Asking the Way

Lesson 27 - Climate, Weather

Lesson 28 - Sports Activities

Lesson 29 - Comparison

Lesson 30 - At the hospital

Section Four

Lesson 31 - Changing Money

ေန့စဥ္သံုးစကားေျပာေလးေတြပါ...

2009-05-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

1. ဘယ္နားမွာ ဘယ္လို အစားေသာက္ ရွိတယ္ဆိုတာ ေျပာျပေပးပါ.
告诉我，有什么好吃是在什么地方。
gao su wo, you shen me hao chi shi zai shen me di fang.

2. မင္းဘယ္ေတာ႕ျပန္လာမလဲ。
你几时回来？。
ni ji shi hui lai?

3. အခု ငါတို႕တစ္ေတြ မင္းဆီကိုလာေနျပီ。
我们现在快到你那里了。
women xian zai kuai dao ni na li le.

1. မနက္စာ စားျပီးရင္ ဖုန္းဆက္လိုက္မယ္
吃早饭后给你打电话。
chi zao fan hou gei ni da dian hua

2. မင္းေစာင္႕ေနတာ သိလို႕ ငါလာတာေပါ႕
我当然知道你等着，所以我来。
Wo dang ran zhi dao ni deng zhe, suo yi wo lai.

3. မင္းနဲ႕ငါနဲ႕က ေျပာရမယ္႕လူေတြမွမဟုတ္တာ
你跟我和必不用讲什么嘛。
Ni gen wo he bi bu yong jian shen me ma.

4. အီးေမးပို႕ထားလိုက္ ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ဖက္စ္ ပို႕ထားလိုက္
打送电子邮件或传真.
da song dian zi you jian huo chuan zhen

5. ဖုန္းလာရင္ အျပင္သြားတယ္ေျပာေပးပါ
有我电话，请帮讲我出去。
You wo dian hua qing bang jian wo chu qu

6. ဘယ္သူဖုန္းဆက္ဆက္ ငါခရီးသြားေနတယ္ေျပာေပးပါ
不管谁打都说，我在出发
Bu guan shui da dou jian, wo zai chu fa.

7. ပိုက္ဆံေတာင္းမယ္႕သူဆိုရင္ ခရီးသြားတာျပန္မေရာက္ေသးဘူးလို႕ေျပာပါ
不管看是谁套我的钱，说我出门还没到。
Bu guan kan shi shui tao wo de qian, shuo wo chu men hai mei dao.

8. မင္းအဆင္ေျပတယ္မဟုတ္လား ၊ မေတြ႕ရတာေတာင္ၾကာျပီေနာ္
你还好吧，好久不见了
Ni hai hao ba. Hao jiu bu jian le.

1. တယ္လီဖုန္းလာေနတယ္
电话来了
Dian hua lai le.

2. မန္ေနဂ်ာ ခင္ဗ်ားဖုန္းလာတယ္
经理，来你的电话
Jing li, lai ni de dian hua

3. ဘယ္သူဆက္တာလဲ
谁打的？
Shui da de?

4. ၀က္ဆိုက္ေရးတဲ႕ ကုမဏီကပါ
是从网站绘图公词的。
Shi cong Wang zhan hui tu gong ci de

5. ရံုးကိုလာခဲ႕ပါလို႕ေျပာလိုက္
请叫他来公词
Qing jiao ta lai gong ci.

6. ဖက္စ္ အရင္ပို႕လိုက္မယ္ေျပာေနတယ္
他说，先打送传真
Ta shuo, xian da song chuan zhen

7. ဖက္စ္ မပို႕နဲ႕ ေစ်းၾကီးတယ္ အီးေမးပဲပို႕လိုက္လို႕ေျပာပါ
说，别用传真，贵的，送电子邮件吧
Shuo, bie yong chuan zhen, gui de. Song dian zi you jian ba

Asking Questions !
1. ဘယ္ေတာ႕ ( when )
几点。ဘယ္ႏွနာရီလဲေမးတာပါ.
Ji dian ?

2.ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ (what time )
什么时候？
Shen me shi hou?

3. ဘယ္လို ( How )
多么？
Duo me?

4. ဘယ္သူနဲ႕ ( Which one )
跟谁一起去？ဘယ္သူနဲ႔အတူသြားလဲ?
Gen shui yi qi qu.
哪一个？ဘယ္တခုလဲ?
Na yi ge?

5. ဘယ္ေလာက္ (How much )
多少？
Duo shao?

6. ဘာေၾကာင္႕ ( Why )
为什么？
Wei shen me?

7. ဘယ္သူ ( Who )
谁？
shui?

1. အခု ဘယ္ႏွစ္နာရီလဲ
现在几点？
Xian zai ji dian?

2. ညေနငါးနာရီက်ရင္ငါ႕အိမ္ကိုလာခဲ႕
晚上五点到我家吧
Wan shang wu dian dao wo jia ba

3. မင္းအိမ္ကဘယ္နားမွာလဲ
你家在哪儿里?
Ni jia zai nar li?

4. ဗဟန္းမွာပဲေလ
在bahan啊
Zai Bahan a.

5. မင္းဖုန္းနံပါတ္ဘယ္ေလာက္လဲ
你电话号码是多少？
Ni dian hua hao ma shi duo shao?

6. အရင္နံပါတ္ပဲေလ
是最后一个啊
Shi zui hou yi ge a.

7. အိုေက မင္းေစာင္႕ေန
好了。你等着
Hao le. Ni deng zhe

8. ဘယ္သူနဲ႕လာမွာလဲ
跟谁一起来？
Gen shui yi qi lai?

9. တစ္ေယာက္တည္းလာခဲ႕မယ္
我一个人来？
Wo yi ge ren lai.

10. ဘာလို႕ မင္းေကာင္မေလးမေခၚခဲ႕လဲ
为什么跟你女朋友一起来啊？
Wei shen me gen ni nu peng you yi qi lai a?

1. အဲ႕ဒီေနာက္ ( and then )
然后
Ran hou

2. သို႕ေသာ္ ( but )
可是/但是
Ke shi, dan shi

3. စဥ္၊အတြင္း ( while )
当。。时
Dang..de shi hou

4. မွာ ၊တြင္ ၊၀ယ္ ( at )
在
Zai

5. မွ--- အထိ ( From ----- To )
从。。到
Cong…dao

6. ေပမယ္႕လည္း ( Although )
虽然。。可是/但是
Sui ran…ke shi/dan shi

7. သင္႕သည္ ( Should )
应该
Ying gai

8. လိမ္႕မည္ ( will )
将/要
Jiang / yao

9. ရမည္ ( have to ) ( must )
一定
Yi ding

10. ျဖစ္သည္။ ( is , am ,are )
是
shi

1. ငါထမင္းစားမယ္ အဲ႕ဒီေနာက္ ေရခ်ိဳးမယ္
我吃饭，然后洗澡。
Wo chi fan, ran hou xi zao.

2. ငါ ဖိနပ္၀ယ္ခဲ႕တယ္ ဒါေပမယ္႕ မလွဘူးျဖစ္ေနတယ္
我买了一双鞋，可是不好看。
Wo mai le yi shuang xie, ke shi bu hao kan.

3. ငါမရွိတဲ႕အေတာအတြင္းမင္းဘယ္သူနဲ႕စကားေျပာေနတာလဲ
当我不在时，你跟谁谈话啊？
Dang wo bu zai shi, ni gan shui tan hua a ?

4. ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားမွာဆံုမယ္
我们在金宝塔见面吧。
Wo men zai jin bao ta jian mian ba.

5. အလုပ္က 9 နာရီကေန 5 နာရီအထိ ျဖစ္တယ္
工作是从九点到五点
Gong zuo shi cong jiu dian dao wu dian.

6. မင္းကလွေပမယ္႕လည္း အရပ္နဲနဲပုေနတယ္
虽然你漂亮，但是个子一点矮
Sui ran ni piao liang, dan shi ge zi yi dian ai.

7. မင္းသူ႕ကို ၾကိဳေျပာသင္႕တယ္
你应该先说他
Ni ying gai xian shuo ta.

8. မနက္ျဖန္မိုးရြာလိမ္႕မည္
明天要下雨
Ming tian yao xia yu.

9. ေန႕လည္က်ရင္ငါသြားစရာရွိတယ္ ...... မသြားလို႕မျဖစ္ဘူး
下午我有件事要出去，不去不行。
Xia wu wo you jian shi yao chu qu, bu qu bu xing.

10. ဒါက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ရန္ကုန္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္
这是缅甸国家的仰光城市。
Zhe shi mian dian guo jia de yang guang cheng shi.

1. စားသည္ မစားပါ စားခဲ႕သည္ မစားခဲ႕ပါ
吃，不吃，吃过了，没吃过
Chi, bu chi, chi guo le, mei chi guo

2. ေရေသာက္သည္ ေရမေသာက္ပါ ေရေသာက္ခဲ႕သည္ ေရမေသာက္ခဲ႔ပါ
喝水，不喝水，喝过水，没喝过水。
He shui, bu he shui, he guo shui, mei he guo shui

3.၀ယ္သည္ မ၀ယ္ပါ ၀ယ္ခဲ႕သည္ မ၀ယ္ခဲ႕ပါ
买，不买，买过，没买过
Mai, bu mai, mai guo, mei mai guo

4. ေရးသည္ မေရးပါ ေရးခဲ႕သည္ မေရးခဲ႔ပါ
写，不写，写过，没写过
Xie, bu xie, xie guo, mei xie guo

5. သြားသည္ မသြားပါ သြားခဲ႕သည္ မသြားခဲ႔ပါ
去，不去，去过，没去过
Qu, bu qu, qu guo, mei qu guo

6. ပို႕သည္ မပို႕ပါ ပို႕ခဲ႕သည္ မပို႕ခဲ႕ပါ
送，不送，送过，没送过
song, bu song, song guo, mei song guo

7. ၾကည္႕သည္ မၾကည္႔ပါ ၾကည္႔ခဲ႕သည္ မၾကည္႔ခဲ႕ပါ
看，不看，看过，没看过
kan, bu kan, kan guo, mei kan guo

8. လာသည္ မလာပါ လာခဲ႕သည္ မလာခဲ႕ပါ
来，没来，来过，没来过
Lai, mei lai, lai guo, mei lai guo

9. လုပ္သည္ မလုပ္ပါ လုပ္ခဲ႕သည္ မလုပ္ခဲ႕ပါ
做，不做，做过，没做过
Zuo, bu zuo, zuo guo, mei zuo guo

1. မဂၤလာပါ
你好!
Ni hao!

2. ေနေကာင္းလား
你好！
Ni hao!

3. အဆင္ေျပတယ္မဟုတ္လား
商意方便吧
Shang yi fang bian ba

4. မေတြ႕တာေတာင္ၾကာျပီေနာ္
好久不见
Hao jiu bu jian

5. ဘယ္ကျပန္လာတာလဲ
从哪儿回来？
Cong nar hui lai?

6. အလုပ္ကျပန္လာတာလား
从工作回来吗？
Cong gong zuo hui lai ma?

7. မင္းေတာ္ေတာ္လွလာတာပဲ
你比以前更漂亮
Ni bi yi qian geng piao liang.

8. အဆင္ေျပပါေစလို႕ဆုေတာင္းပါတယ္
祝你顺利
Zu ni shun li.

9. ေကာ္ဖီေသာက္ပါအံုးလား
喝咖啡吧
He ka fei ba

10. အေအးေသာက္ရင္ေကာင္းမယ္ထင္တယ္
我觉得喝饮料更好
Wo jue de He Yin liao geng hao.

11. ငါတကာခံပါ႕မယ္
我请客
Wo qing ke.

12. မဟုတ္တာ ၊ ငါေကၽြးပါ႕မယ္
哪儿里，我请客
Nar li, we qing ke.

13.အားမနာပါနဲ႕
别客气
Bie ke qi.

14. ကဲ.. ငါသြားေတာ႕မယ္
那，我走了
Na. wo zou le.

15. ဂရုစိုက္ေနာ္....ေနာက္မွေတြ႕မယ္
保证，再见
Bao zheng, zai jian.

1. ဒီေန႕ ၊မေန႕က ၊မနက္ျဖန္
今天，昨天，明天
Jin tian, zuo tian, ming tian

2. ဒီအပါတ္၊ ျပီးခဲ႕တဲ႕အပါတ္၊လာမည္႕အပါတ္
这个星期，上个星期，下个星期
Zhe ge xing qi, shang ge xing qi, xia ge xing qi

3. ဒီႏွစ္၊ျပီးခဲ႕တဲ႕ႏွစ္၊ လာမည္႕ႏွစ္
今年，去年，明年
Jin nian, qu nian, ming nian

4. တနဂၤေႏြ ၊ တနလၤာ ၊အဂၤါ၊ဗုဒဟူး ၊ ၾကာသပေတး၊ေသာၾကာ ၊စေန
星期日，星期一，星期二，星期三，星期四，星期五，星期六
Xing qi ri, Xing qi yi, Xing qi er, Xing qi san, Xing qi si, Xing qi wu, Xing qi liu

5. ၁ ရက္ ၊ ၂ ရက္ ၃၁ ရက္
一号，二号，三十一号
Yi hao, er hao, san shi yi hao

6. ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၊ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ၊မတ္၊ဧျပီ၊ေမ ၊ဇြန္၊ဇူလိုင္၊ၾသဂုတ္၊စက္တင္ဘာ၊ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၊ဒီဇင္ဘာ
一月，二月，三月，四月，五月，六月，七月，八月，九月，十月，十一月，
十二月
Yi yue, er yue, san hao, si hao, wu hao, liu hao, qi hao, ba hao, jiu hao, shi hao, shi yi hao, shi er hao

7. ၁ နာရီ ၊ ၁၂ နာရီ ၊ ၅ မိနစ္ ၊ ၁၀ မိနစ္ ၊ ၆ စကၠန္႕
一点，十二点，五分，十分，六秒
Yi dian, shi er dian, wu fen, shi fen, liu miao

8. ခဏေလး ၊ ျဖည္းျဖည္း ၊ ျမန္ျမန္ ၊ ခဏေစာင္႕ပါ
等一下，慢慢，快快，请等一下
Deng y ixia, mang mang, kuai kuai, qing deng yi xia

9. အခ်ိန္ရွိလား ၊ ေစာေစာ ၊ အရမ္းျမန္တယ္
有时间吗？早点，太快了
You shi jian ma? Zao dian, tai kuai le.

10. မနက္ ၊ေန႕လည္ ၊ညေန ၊ ည
早晨，中午，下午，夜晚
Zao chen, zhong wu, xia wu, ye wan

11. အားလပ္ခ်ိန္၊ အလုပ္ခ်ိန္ ၊ ထမင္းစားခ်ိန္
自由时间，工作时间，午餐时间
Zi you shi jian, gongzuo shi jian, wu can shi jian

12. တေန႕လံုး ၊တနာရီလံုး ၊ တစ္ႏွစ္လံုး
整天，整个小时，整年
Zheng tian, zheng ge xiao shi, zheng nian

13. အခ်ိန္တိုင္း ၊ ေနရာတိုင္း ၊
时辰 shi chen
我每个时间到什么地方想着你。ငါမင္းကိုဘယ္ေနရာဘယ္အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္သတိရေနတယ္.

14. ဘယ္အခ်ိန္မဆို ၊
无论什么时候
Wu lun shenme shi hou

15. ကေလးဘ၀ ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားဘ၀
童年，学年
Tong nian, xue nian

(p.s - သူငယ္ခ်င္း whitequeen ၏ planet forum မွပို့ဒ္စ္မ်ားကို ကူယူတင္ျပျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္...။)

Consonant....

2009-01-20T03:56:00.000-08:00

Consonant Table:

b p m f

d t n l

g k h

j q x

z c s r

zh ch sh

y w

b - as the "b" in "book"

p - as the "p" in "pool"

m - as the "m" in "moon"

f - as the "f" in "food"

d - as the "d" in "door"

t - as the "t" in "tom"

n - as the "n" in "no"

l - as the "l" in "love"

g - as the "g" in good"

k - as the "k" in "kill"

h- as the "h" in "high"

j- as the "j" in "jeep"

q- as the "ch" in "cheese"

x- as the "sh" in "sharp"

z- as the "z" in "zero"

c- as the "ts" in "tsunami"

s- as the "s" in "sun"

r- as the "r" in "red"

zh- start with 'j' in "jeep", but then end smoothly with "r" sound. The first 2 sounds in the sample voice show such move.

ch- start with 'q' in "cheese", but then end smoothly with "r" sound. The first 2 sounds in the sample voice show such move.

sh - start with 'x' in "sharp", but then end smoothly with "r" sound. The first 2 sounds in the sample voice show such move.

( 'zh, ch, sh' are similar to, but strictly different from 'j, q, x' respectively. However, mixing them is not a too big problem for you to be understood in China.)

y- as the "y" in "yes"

w- as the "w" in "wood"

ping ying vowel...

2009-01-20T03:53:00.000-08:00

Vowel Table:

a	o	e	i	u	ϋ
ai	ei	ui
ao	ou	iu
ie	ue	er
an	en	in	un	ϋn
ang	eng	ing	ong

a - as the vowel in "star" without the "r" sound

o - as the vowel in "law"

e - as the vowel in "stir"

i - as the vowel in "bit"

u - as the vowel in "food"

ϋ - as "y" in "yellow" followed by the 'u' above

ai - as the vowel in "bike"

ei - as the vowel in "lake"

ui - combination of 'u' and 'i', the same as word "we" in English

ao - as the vowel in "loud"

ou - as the vowel in "flow"

iu - combination of 'i' and 'u', the same as word "yew" in English

ie - combination of 'i' and 'e', as the vowel in "sierra"

ue - combination of 'u' and 'e', as the vowel in "buena"

er - combination of 'e' and 'r', as the vowel in "early"

an - as the vowel in "anchor":

en - as the word "earn" without the "r" sound:

in - as in the word "inn"

un - as in the word "one":

ϋn - as "y" in "yellow" followed by the English word "one"

ang - as the word "long"

eng - as the vowel in "lung"

ing - as the vowel in "England"

ong - as 'u' followed by the 'ng' as above:

Consonants Part-2

2008-06-14T00:02:00.000-07:00

Skills:
An aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive . It is pronounced by raising the tongue tip against the upper teeth ridge to block the air and then putting it down to release the air. The vocal cords do not vibrate.

Skills:
An unaspirated voiceless alveolar plosive. It is pronounced by raising the tongne tip against the upper teethridge to block the air and then putting it down to release the air. The vocal cords do not vibrate.

Skills:
An aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive. It is pronounced in position for "d", but explodes with a strong puff of air. It is an aspirated equivalent of "d".

Learn Yourself About PinYin! " Consonants Part-1

2008-06-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

Skills:

Specially designed for those who have no foundation in Chinese language, this level concentrates on learning Chinese phonetics, tones and pronunciation rules.Specially designed for those who have no foundation in Chinese language, this level concentrates on learning Chinese phonetics, tones and pronunciation rules.

Skills:
The pronunciation method is more or less the same with "b", with stronger breath going out.

Skills:
An unaspirated bilabial nasal. It is pronounced by keeping the lips tightly closed and the soft palate dropped to force the air out through the nose. The vocal cords vibrate.

Chan Chan (Mg Mine)

Talking about Time

2008-06-12T08:13:00.000-07:00

现在几点了？
xiàn zài jǐ diǎn le ？
What time is it now?

你每天几点起床？
nǐ měi tiān jǐ diǎn qǐ chuáng ？
What time do you get up every morning?

你什么时候回家？
nǐ shí me shí hòu huí jiā ？
When do you go back home?

现在十点十五。
xiàn zài shí diǎn shí wǔ。
It's 15 past 10.

现在九点一刻。

xiàn zài jiǔ diǎn yī kè 。
It's 15 past 9.

刚好六点钟。
gāng hǎo liù diǎn zhōng 。
It's 6 o'clock.

八点多了。
bā diǎn duō le 。
It's a few minutes past 8.

快到晚上十点了。
kuài dào wǎn shàng shí diǎn le 。
It's almost 10 PM.

差十分钟十二点。
chà shí fēn zhōng shí èr diǎn 。
It's 10 minutes to 12.

九点零三分。
jiǔ diǎn líng sān fēn 。
It's 3 minutes past 9.

你的表准吗？
nǐ de biǎo zhǔn ma ？
Does your watch tell the right time?

我的表快五分钟。
wǒ de biǎo kuài wǔ fēn zhōng 。
My watch is 5 minutes faster.

你们每天上几个小时的班？
nǐ mén měi tiān shàng jǐ gè xiǎo shí de bān ？
How many hours do you work everyday?

你每天睡多长时间？
nǐ měi tiān shuì duō cháng shí jiān ？
How long do you sleep everyday?

你来中国几年了。
nǐ lái zhōng guó jǐ nián le 。
How many years have you been to China?

电影开始几分钟了。
diàn yǐng kāi shǐ jǐ fēn zhōng le 。
When did the film begin?

我们每天上四个小时的课。
wǒ mén měi tiān shàng sì gè xiǎo shí de kè 。
We have 4 hours of classes everyday.

他每天只睡六个小时。
tā měi tiān zhī shuì liù gè xiǎo shí 。
He only sleeps 6 hours a day.

我学了半年的中文了。
wǒ xué le bàn nián de zhōng wén le 。
I have been learning Chinese for half a year.

电影已经开始七分钟了。
diàn yǐng yǐ jīng kāi shǐ qī fēn zhōng le 。
The film began 7 minutes ago.

这几天我哪儿都没有去。
zhè jǐ tiān wǒ nǎ ér dōu méi yǒu qù 。
I have been to nowwhere these days.

从一九九八年起，到二零零四年，我一直在酒店工作。
cóng yī jiǔ jiǔ bā nián qǐ ， dào èr líng líng sì nián ， wǒ yī zhí zài jiǔ diàn gōng zuò 。
I worked at a hotel from 1998 to 2004.

今天几号？
jīn tiān jǐ hào ？
What date is it today?

今天星期几？
jīn tiān xīng qī jǐ ？
What day is it today?

你那一年参加工作的？
nǐ nà yī nián cān jiā gōng zuò de ？
When did you start to work?

你家孩子今年几月出生的？
nǐ jiā hái zǐ jīn nián jǐ yuè chū shēng de ？
In which month is your child born?

你是哪一年生的？
nǐ shì nǎ yī nián shēng de ？
In which year did you get born?

你的生日是几月几号？
nǐ de shēng rì shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào ？
Which day is your birthday?

今天是八月十号。
jīn tiān shì bā yuè shí hào 。
Today is August 10th.

今天是星期天。
jīn tiān shì xīng qī tiān 。
Today is sunday.

一九九九年七月我大学毕业。
yī jiǔ jiǔ jiǔ nián qī yuè wǒ dà xué bì yè 。
I graduated from university in July, 1999.

我是一九七八年五月十日出生的。
wǒ shì yī jiǔ qī bā nián wǔ yuè shí rì chū shēng de 。
I was born on May 10th, 1978.

这个礼拜六我去上海。
zhè gè lǐ bài liù wǒ qù shàng h ǎi 。
I am going to Shanghai this saturday.

每个月我们都看一次电影。
měi gè yuè wǒ mén dōu kàn yī cì diàn yǐng 。
We go to the cinema once every month.

我每天都工作10个小时。
wǒ měi tiān dōu gōng zuò 10 gè xiǎo shí 。
I work 10 hours a day.

我每星期都和好朋友聚一下。
wǒ měi xīng qī dōu hé hǎo péng yǒu jù yī xià 。
I visit my good friends every week.

Conversation 1

2008-06-12T08:09:00.000-07:00

真奇怪！门怎么开了？
zhēn qí guài ！ mén zěn me kāi le ？
How stange! The door is open.

什么？你居然不知道这件事情？
shén me ？ nǐ jū rán bù zhī dào zhè jiàn shì qíng ？
What? You don't even know this.

嘿，你怎么来了？
hēi ， nǐ zěn me lái le ？
Hey! How come you are here?

不会吧，你竟然没带钱？
bù huì ba ， nǐ jìng rán méi dài qiá n ？
What? You don't bring money with you.

简直让人无法相信！
jiǎn zhí ràng rén wú fǎ xiāng xìn ！
I can't believe it .!

真是不可思议。
zhēn shì bù kě sī yì 。
It's incredible!

不知道怎么回事，最近老是犯困。
bù zhī dào zěn me huí shì ， zuì jìn lǎo shì fàn kùn 。
It's strange that I feel sleepy these days.

不知为什么，我有点头疼。
bù zhī wéi shí me ， wǒ yǒu diǎn tóu téng 。
I don't know why I have a headache.

我真不明白，他怎么能这样！
wǒ zhēn bù míng bái ， tā zěn me néng zhè yàng ！
I don't understand why he behaved like this.

这个事儿真让人头大。
zhè gè shì ér zhēn ràng rén tóu dà 。
This makes me headache.

你干吗不跟我们一起去呢？
nǐ gàn ma bù gēn wǒ mén yī qǐ qù ne ？
Why not coming with us?

我不能理解他为什么那么做。
wǒ bù néng lǐ jiě tā wéi shí me nà me zuò 。
I don't understand why he did that.

Let's go to Chinese Spaeking....!

2008-06-12T08:02:00.000-07:00

哎呀！
āi ya ！
Oh, my goodness!

咦！
yí
Gee!

哇！
wa ！
Wow!

天啊！
tiān a！
My God!

真的吗？
zhēn de ma ？
Really!