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You will find this transcript helpful if: 1. You are a visual learner. 2. Learning to read Chinese is just as important to you as learning to speak it. 3. You dont want to rely on pinyin. 4. You prefer a syllable-for-syllable transcript of what youre hearing. This transcript includes the English narrator (12pt Times New Roman) and all of the spoken Chinese in simplified text (18pt Sim-Sun). I used 18 point for the Chinese text because as a beginner I often had difficulty distinguishing different characters apart. If youre smart and print out the pages double-sided, youll notice that the page numbers and lesson numbers are printed on the bottom outside corners and times for the lessons are in 3-minute intervals on the outside margin next to the corresponding line of dialogue. Enjoy!

LESSON TWENTY-SEVEN This is unit twenty-seven of Pimsleurs Mandarin Chinese One.

A: B: A: B: A: B: A:

, Hello. ?

Ask if the stores are open.

, Yes. Say, Doors have been open.

And how would you answer, No?

Now say that the stores are closed.

Ask why.

, Because now its too late.

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Tell her its not very late.

Ask me if Im going to work in Beijing.

, Maybe Im going to work.

, I think Im going to work.

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Say that you are going to go to Beijing.

How does she ask what you are going to go there to do?

Say that you are going to see some friends.

Ask how many days I am going to stay in Beijing. Be careful with the word order.

A few days. ?

, I think Im going to stay a few days.

And how do you say, a few friends?

Tell me that you are going to see a few friends.

, Maybe Im going to see a few friends.

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, eighty. ?

Eighty-five.

, ninety.

The tones are falling-rising and rising.

, ninety-five.

Ninety-two.

, ninety-nine.

, eighty-nine.

Ask if the stores are open.

, No.

The stores are closed. ?

Why?

Because its too late.

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Tell her its not very late.

Are you going to buy something? ?
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Answer, No, Im going to work.

Say that you are going to see some friends.

I would like to see some friends. ?

, I think Im going to see some friends.

Ask the woman again if she is going to buy something.

Ask how much money it is.

, ninety renminbi.

, hundred.

, one hundred American dollars.

, Here you are, one hundred renminbi.
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, one hundred fifty American dollars.
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, one hundred eighty.

Its too much. ?

, one hundred seventy.

One hundred sixty-five.

One hundred forty-seven.

Ask how much you owe.

, One hundred renminbi.

, ninety renminbi.

Why?

Because.

Ask me what I want.

I would not like to drink anything. ?

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Say, Now Im going to work.

, Give me some renminbi.

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I would like to leave.

with a falling-rising tone can mean both to go and to leave. , to leave.

With the ending, its like saying, to have gone. Say that you would like to leave.

Are the stores open? ?

Do you remember how to answer, Yes?

, Yes. The stores are open.

And now say, The stores are closed.

Why?
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Because its too late.

, I would like to leave.

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, Would you like to leave? or Would you like to have gone?

Notice that you drop the with the positive-negative form. Using this form again ask, Would you like to leave?

You also drop the to say that you would not like to leave. Try it.

And now say, Tomorrow I am going to leave.

, We are going to leave.

With whom? Remember to ask, Along with whom?

Were going to leave together.

You dont use to say leave together. , Were going to leave together.

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Now ask me what I would like to do.

Listen and repeat to compare to leave and to do.

, I would like to leave.

, Id like to leave along with you.
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Were going to leave together. ?

, I would not like to leave.

Why?

I would like to stay a few days.

, I would like to stay here a few days.

, I have one hundred American dollars.

And ninety Hong Kong dollars.

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, I have a lot of money.

I dont have money.

Im going to leave. ?

Would you like to leave? ?

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You want to say, But Im alone. Just listen.

Literally its, But only Im one person.

The tone in that rises, falls and rises again in the end.

Im alone, or literally only Im one person.

Only is pronounced with a falling tone. , only.

, Im alone.

, together.

, Im alone.

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, Youre alone.

Try to ask her if she is alone.

, No. I and my husband are together.

Im going to leave. ?
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, Im alone.

Were going to leave together. ?

You want to say, Im leaving alone.

Notice that you dont use . , Im leaving alone.

can mean leave and leaving. Tell me that youre leaving alone.

, Why?

, Because.

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, Wait one moment.

, Are you leaving alone?

Answer, Maybe, yes.

, We can leave together.

This is the end of unit twenty-seven.

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