Chapter Overview
1. Introducing oneself and asking about a new acquaintance's
name.
2. The apostrophe "s" like modification particle "de".
3. The alternate-choice VERB-bù-VERB question pattern, as in "Shì
búshì."
4. Keeping the same word order in questions as in declarative sentences.
5. Words such as "Nü" that must be bound to another word, and
cannot stand alone.
Follow along in your book. Click on the phrase you want to hear. There is a phrase by phrase and complete version to listen to:
Wáng Jinglî: Ta
shì shéi? Ta shì búshì
nîde nüpéngyou?
Mínglêi: Búshì.
Ta shì wô jiêjie. Sanjiê,
ta shì wô gongsi de jinglî.
Lìlián: Nín hâo!
Qîngwèn, nín gùixìng?
Wáng Jinglî: Wô
xìng Wáng.
Lìlián: Wáng
Jinglî, hên gaoxìng rènshì nín.
Wáng Jinglî: Xîaojiê,
nî jiào shénme míngzi?
Lìlián: Wô jiào
Hán Lìlián.
Wáng Jinglî: Nî
shì búshì xuésheng?
Lìlián: Bú,
wô shì yóuyông jiàoliàn.
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