We're back for another season! In this episode,  Xiao-Li (小李) comes back to Taiwan.

Learning how to digest (and even to be entertained by) material that you don't completely understand is an important skill for learning a language. In this episode, we introduce a new dialogue, but don't translate it all at once like we did in Season 1. Instead, I'll introduce some of the key words and phrases, and we'll let your language intuition work to try and figure out the rest. It's ok if you don't get all or even most of it; it's the challenge of grappling with the exercise that makes us grow, not simply knowing the right answer.

Tomorrow, I will release the dialogue on its own, so that you can start to practice and master the material more and more over time. Repetition is important; each time you listen, you are reinforcing new connections in your brain, and you may notice things you didn't notice during previous repetitions.

And in the next episode, I will translate this dialogue completely, line by line, so that you can fill in whatever gaps remain in your comprehension, possibly enjoying many "Aha!" moments.

Today's Lesson Outline:

Introduction: Language is music. 

Dialogue at normal speed.

Dialogue at slow speed. Listen and repeat.   

Learn some vocabulary and phrases from the dialogue.

Listen to the dialogue at normal speed again. See if you pick out any of the new words or phrases you just learned. 

Dialogue at slow speed again. Try to picture the scene in your mind. 

As a visual cue and for reference, here are the words we learn in the lesson, and example phrases:

Chinese characters only (scroll down for pinyin and translation):

回 

來  回來 

還好

 你還好嗎？ 

我還好啊 

還好啦！

還是 

 我還是很開心 

 還是很謝謝你  

到 

 回到 

 我們到了 

 我看到你 

 我買到了 

飛機 

上 

 飛機上 

 你在飛機上做什麼？

 車上 

 路上 

 路上小心  

都在 

 我都在睡  

 你都在吃  

貼心

 你好貼心  

 你最貼心  

 你真貼心  

趕快 

 趕快吃！ 

 趕快去！

 趕快來！ 

 趕快買！ 

好久不見  

真的假的  

With pinyin and translation:

回 / huí / return

來 / lái / to come 回來 / huílái / to come back

還好 / hái hǎo / alright, not bad

 你還好嗎？/ nǐ hái hǎo ma? / Are you alright? 

我還好啊 / wǒ hái hǎo a / I'm alright. 

還好啦！/  hái hǎo la! / Not really, no big deal

還是 / háishì / Still..., nevertheless... 

 我還是很開心 / wǒ háishì hěn kāixīn / I'm still very happy

 還是很謝謝你 / háishì hěn xièxiè nǐ / Still, thank you; I'm still thankful. 

到 / dào / arrive; completion

 回到 / huí dào / to arrive back, to return

 我們到了/ wǒmen dàole / We have arrived. 

 我看到你 / wǒ kàn dào nǐ  / I see you (I successfully completed the action). 

 我買到了 / wǒ mǎi dàole / I (successfully) bought it.

飛機 / fēijī / airplane

上 / shàng / on, above, previous

 飛機上 / fēijī shàng / on the plane

 你在飛機上做什麼？/ nǐ zài fēijī shàng zuò shénme? / What did you do on the plane?

 車上 / chē shàng / in the car

 路上 / lùshàng / on the road, en route

 路上小心 / lùshàng xiǎoxīn / Be careful en route (often said when someone is departing). 

都在 / dōu zài / continuously, incessantly doing something

 我都在睡 / wǒ dū zài shuì / I slept the whole time. 

 你都在吃 / nǐ dōu zài chī / You've just been eating this whole time. 

貼心 / tiēxīn / Considerate, thoughtful

 你好貼心 / nǐ hǎo tiēxīn / You're so considerate. 

 你最貼心 / nǐ zuì tiēxīn / You're the most considerate. 

 你真貼心 / nǐ zhēn tiēxīn / You're truly considerate. 

趕快 / gǎnkuài / hurry up, quickly

 趕快吃！/ gǎnkuài chī! / Hurry up and eat! 

 趕快去！/ gǎnkuài qù! / Hurry up and go!

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Date de publication : 2/8/2021 à 07:11:42