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Fruit 1
Y: Dajia hao, improve your Chinese every day, right here in the Chinese Studio. Welcome in,
wo shi Y.
B: And, wo shi B, ni hao Y Food’s a great teacher when it comes to language learning, I reckon
it’s time to sink our teeth into some juicy fruit this week.
Y: It’ll be good for the diet too. Here are some ripe looking key words of the day.
B: Let’s be logical and start at the beginning, what is the word for fruit Y?
Y: it’s shui2 guo3
B: shui2 guo3.
Y: shui3 literally means water,
B: shui3,
Y: guo3 means fruit,
B: guo3,
Y: shui2 guo3,
B: shui2 guo3, fruit. And let’s adapt a sentence we’ve already learned, and ask, what’s your
favorite fruit?
Y: Yes, I remember us looking at that not so long ago, ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 na2 zhong3
shui2 guo3?
B: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3?
Y: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1, your favorite,
B: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1
Y: chi1 means eat,
B: chi1,
Y: na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3 which kind of fruit,
B: na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3
Y: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3?
B: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3? What’s your favorite fruit?
Conversation 1
A: 你最喜欢吃哪种水果?
B: 我最喜欢吃苹果。
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B: An apple a day keeps the doctor away, so they say. Not sure if that’s always true, but
apples surely are the king of fruit.
Y: You mean ping2 guo3.
B: wo2 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 ping2 guo3.
Y: hen hao. Ni2 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 ping2 guo3. You favorite fruit is apple.
B: Dui, then how about you, Y? ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 na2 zhong3 shui2 guo3?
Y: I like xi1 gua1 the best. wo2 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 xi1 gua1.
B: wo2 zui4 xi3 huan1 chi1 xi1 gua1.
Y: xi1, literally means west,
B: xi1,
Y: gua1 means melon,
B: gua1,
Y: xi1 gua1,
B: xi1 gua1, watermelon,
Conversation 2
A: 你最喜欢吃哪种水果?
B: 我最喜欢吃西瓜。
B: Fruit is yummy, no doubt about it, but it has to be shu2, ripe. Sometimes I’ve seen some
fruit, like, peaches, which is too hard.
Y: Yes, tai4 ying4 le. they’re too hard.
B: tai4 ying4 le.
Y: tai4 means extremely,
B: tai4,
Y: ying4 means hard,
B: ying4,
Y: tai4 ying4 le.
B: tai4 ying4 le. They’re too hard.
Conversation 3
A: 现在的桃子还没到季节。
B: 是啊,吃起来太硬了。
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