Level 22 - Conversations, Opinions & Stories
5 Lessons
用什么办法可以学好汉语
Based on a great question from Lindsey, we made an addendum video for this text that you can watch here.
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Note: The text is pasted here in case you want to copy/paste one of the words into a dictionary app, but the above video and zip file download are best inputting the content as they have audio and text-tracking.
A: 早上好！小多，我看见你能用中文和中国人聊天儿，我也想说得这么好。我可以用什么办法学好中文吗？
B: 你去买一本中文书。可能二十元左右，这些书都不太贵。
A: 我有几本中文书，不过还没看过。
B: 你每一页都要认真地看，看完书了就多去和中国人聊天儿。
A: 可是我没有中国朋友。我有点害怕和中国人说话。
B: 中国人都很友好。比如我的一个中国朋友，我们每一次见面，他会给我说说中国的文化，很好玩儿。
A: 我能不能见一下你的中国朋友？
B: 没问题！我们明天下午要见一面，你也来吧！
A: 好！那我们明天见，再见！
B: 嗯！ 明天见。
Top-Down Words
聊天儿 liáotiānr - chat
学 xué - to learn
买 mǎi - to buy
左右 zuǒyòu - about, approximately
都 dōu - all, every
认真 rènzhēn - conscientious
就 jiù - (particle) and then
害怕 hàipà - afraid
次 cì - times
吧 ba - (particle expressing suggestion)
Names
小多 - Xiaoduo
How to Use This Lesson
Step One
Watch the video here on the course platform. Feel free to take as much time as you'd like to understand the content, but don't feel obligated to understand the text right now fully. You'll download the video and return to it later.
Step Two
Download the zip file from the sidebar (desktop/laptop) or below this description (Mobile APP). That zip file contains the following:
- Text tracking video(s) MP4 file(s)
- Audio MP3 file(s)
- Image file of the text & top-down words for your reference
Dialogues contain one text-tracking video file at 80% speed followed by native speed.
Opinions & Short Stories contain two text tracking video files, one female voice, and one male voice. Both start at 80% speed, followed by native speed.
Step Three
At a time of your choosing, use the video files to practice shadowing. If you need a reminder, this lesson explains how to shadow. These video files are ideal for shadowing, especially if you download them to your phone because you can walk around while doing it.
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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Christine
Oh my goodness. So awesome to be able read and listen to this and actually anderstand and follow. Awesome!
MB Team
Here's the link to where Phil and Luke talked about this comment in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4SpMqeD0bw&t=1321s
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Annette Bicknell
When personal names come up like 小多, would you be able to also indicate which gender typically is associated with that name? Or if it is used by all similar to some English names that are fluent. I know of some names that are associated with male in a European language, but in English they are considered female. If the writing is in third person, then of course later 他 or 她 would make it clear, but this is first person.
Mandarin Blueprint
Good question, Annette, here's a reply for you: https://www.loom.com/share/6109044c95ea475191ad3e8cfc4d5a84
Mentioned in the video:
多晓梅 -> 小多 - 姓 + 名字
多全国 -> 小多
小王
Annette Bicknell
That is really interesting. Thank you so much. I thought 小 was actually part of the name (after all "Small" exists as an English last name). I am aware of the order of family name first and then given name in Asian names as opposed to how western languages do it. I just didn't realize the 小 here was meant as an endearment and thought of it as a last name and the 多 as a first name or the two characters as someone's first name if the person did not introduce themselves with their full name. Lots to learn about names, not just people names, but also place names.
Seong Tan
你每一页都要认真地看 - Should 地 really be 得？ Ｉnote that the speaker inserted 就 to the phrase 他会给我说说． does it matter?
Mandarin Blueprint
No and no :D
Makai Allbert
"我可以用什么办法学好中文吗？" -> Is it a common rule that you can put 好 after a verb to indicate doing that thing well?
Mandarin Blueprint
Absolutely, it's a "Verb-How" construction. Here's that lesson again for a refresher: D:\Courses\Mandarin Blueprint\Course/phase-2-vocabulary-levels-7-12/categories/3445898/posts/16256729.html
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs-S3uGurtQ&t=2161s
Brennan Pimpinella
I am having some trouble with this dialogue. One of the particular parts is "他会给我说说中国的文化." I can understand/assume this translates to "He will speak to me about Chinese culture."
I am confident I haven't made a movie for 给 (I am currently on level 23, character 310) so I don't know what 给 means in the sentence or if 会给 is the word I don't know. Could you explain the structure of this sentence because it is an EXTREMELY weird feeling I might know what a sentence means but not actually knowing what it means? Good, but extremely weird. 谢谢您!
Mandarin Blueprint
Correct! 给 means "to give" and 会给 is two separate words meaning "will give". Sometimes in Mandarin you can phrase it like this so it translates something like "he will GIVE me a talk about...". Sounds a little odd but just the ways it's done sometimes!