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1. Hi, halo!

你好

2. How are you?

你好吗？

3. I am fine, and you.

我很好。 你呢？

4. I am also fine

我也很好。

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5. How are you?

你好吗？

6. I a fine, how is your father and mother?

我很好。 你爸爸妈妈好吗？

7. They (both) are good. Are you bussy?

他们都很好。 你忙吗？

8. I am not bussy, is your freind bussy?

9. He is bussy.

10. Elder brother, do you want coffee

11. I want coffee.

12. Me too want coffee.

13. Fine, we all drink coffee.

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14. Who is that?

15. That is our teacher.

16. What is her nationality?

17. She is chinese.

18. All our teachers are chinese.

19. Teacher Chen, hello! This is my elder brother, he is foreign language teacher.

20. Hello.

21. This is my freind.

22. Hello, are you also a teacher?

23. Hello(respect),I am not a teacher, I am a doctor.

24. Is his your paternal grandmother?

25. No, she is my maternal grandmother.

26. Maternal grandmother, hello (respect).

27. Hello teacher Chen.

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28. May i come in?

29. Please come! Teacher Yang, Hello, this is my freind, he is a reporter.

30. May I know your name?

31. My surname is Lu, my name is Lu Yuping

32. Hello Mr Lu, nice to meet you.

33. Teacher yang, me too please to meet you (respect).

34. I am a student of language institute. My surname is Lin, my name is Lin Na. I am british

What is your name?

35. My surnane is Ma, my surname is Ma Dawei

36. Are you canadian?

37. I am not canadian, i am american, i am also student of language institute. I study chinese.

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38. May i ask is this wang xiaoyun's hostel?

39. Yes, please come in, please sit.

40. Thank you, is wang xiaoyun in there?

41. He is not here.

42. Where is he?

43. I am sorry, i don't know.

44. Never mind/ it doesnt matter! Fine good bye.

45. Good bye

46. Miss, may i ask where is dining hall?

47. It is in no. 204 on the second floor.

48. Thank you

49.Don't mention it.

50. Dawei, we are here.

51. Sorry, i am late.

52. Never mind, it doesn't matter.

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53. Lin Na, how was yesterday's Beijing opera?

54. Very interesting, today's weather is very good, shall we go swimming?

55. That's great, when are we going?

56. Is it okay to go right now?

57. Teacher yang, do you have time tomorrow

58. Pardon, would you please say it again.

59. Do you have time tomorrow? Shall we go to play ball?

60. 8 am sorry but i'll be very bussy tomorrow. I am affraid i can't. Thank you all.

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61. Lipo, tomorrow school is opening. I am happy. You see, isn't he our institute's teacher?

力波， 明天开学。 我很高兴。 你看她是不是我们学院的老师？

62. Let me ask, may i ask are you(reapect) our institute's teacher.

63. Yes, i am language institute's teacher.

64. Your(respect) name?

65. My name is zhang, let us know, this is my business card.

66. Thank you, ah, you(respect) you're professor zhang. I am Ding Lipo, she is Lin Na. We both

are student of language institute.

67. You(respect) are professor of language institute, we are glad to meet you(respect).

68. Me too glad to meet you(plural). How are you both?

69. Thank you, we both are fine. Professor zhang, are you(respect) bussy?

70. I am bussy. Fine, you(pl) please sit, good bye!

71. Good bye.

72. Lin na, who is that?

73. That is Ma Dawei. You know him?

74. I don't know him.

75. Let me introduce, hello, dawei, this is my freind.

76. Hello, my surname is Ding, my name is Ding Lipo. What is your name (informal).

77. My chinese name is Ma Dawei. Are you chinese?

78. I am canadian. My mother is chinese, my father is canadian. What is your nationality?

79. I am american. What major do you study?

80. I major study fine arts, and you?

81. I major study literature. Now i am studying/ study chinese.

82. Now, we all study chinese, we all are also the student of chinese faculty.

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83. Is this your family photo?

84. Yes

85. Let me see. How many persons are there in your family?

86. My family has four persons. This is my dad, my mom, this is m elder brother and me.

Your family?

87. I have mom, have an elder sister, and two younger brother. Our family altogether(in total) has six
persons.

88. This is five members, what do you have in addition?

89. I have beibei in addition.

90. Is beibei your younger sister?

91. No, beibei is my little dog.

92. Little dog is also a member.

93. Beibei is my good freind, offcourse(he) is family person. I have one beibei's picture, you

see.

94. Really cute(lovely).

95. Your(polite) family have little dog?

96. Our family don't have little dog. Lin na, do you have boyfreind?

97. I have boyfreind.

98. What does he do?

99. He is doctor.

100. Is language institute big?

101. Not too big.

102. Language institute has how many departments?

103. Has 12 department.

104. Do you like your foreign language department?

105. I like/love foreign language department.

106. Your foreign language department has how many teachers?

107. Our foreign language department has twenty eight chinese teachers, eleven foreign

country teachers. What about your department?

108. Our chinese department is big. Our department's teacher are also many, have one

Hundred. They all are chinese. Our department don't have foreign country teacher.

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109. Lin Na, how are you (informal)? Bussy?

110. Today i am bussy.

111. Tomorrow morning do you have class?

112. What day is tomorrow?

113. Tomorrow is thursday.

114. I have classes in the morning and afternoon.

115. Do you have time on sunday?

116. What is the date on sunday?

117. Sunday is 27th october, it's Song Hua's birthday.

118. Is it? How old is he this year?

119. Song hua was born on octobre, 27, 1982 and is a dog. He is twenty year old this year.

120. What is his birth place?

121. His birth place id Beijing. His father mother both are in beijing. Sunday afternoon we have

a party, to congratulate his birthday. Lipo, Dawei both are going, you are attending or not

attending?

122. Great! Offcourse i'll attend. Do chinese people eat cakes on their birthdays?

123. We eat cake.

124. We buy one big cake fine?

125. Ok, i am buying two bottle red wine.

126. This is a birthday cake, i wish you a happy birthday.

127. Thank you, cake is really nice. You all come here. I am happy.

128. Today we are eating beijing roasted duck. I very much like to eat roasted duck.

129. Which wine are we drinking?

130. Offcourse we are drinking red wine. We will also eat noodles.

131. Eating noodles? Really interesting.

132. Lin na, what day(when) is your birthday?

133. November 12th.

134. Fine(well), on nov 12th, we'll come back to eat noodles.

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135. Dawei, what are you buying here?

136. I am buying music CD.

137. Do you often come here?

138. I don't come here often. I often go to small shopping mall with Lin Na on sunday. This

mall is very big.

139. What music do you like?

140. I like chinese music. How about this CD?

141. This one is very good, this is " liang zhu", very famous.

142. Fine, i am buying this one. Are there books and newspapers here?

143. There are neither books nor newspapers here.

144. What about the notebook?

145. Yes (have), buy there. Come with me, i am also buying this book.

146. (Mr) what do you want?

147. Hello Mr(master), (may i ask) what is this?

148. You(polite) don't know. This is banana flavoured apple.

149. Sorry, i am asking: how to say this in chinese?

150. Oh, you are foreigner! where are you working?

151. I am studying at the language institute.

152. You(polite) are learning chinese, aren't you? You learn with me, it's easy: this is calle

banana, this is calle banana flavoured apple, this is also apple, that is grape....

153. Bananas, grapes, banana flavoured apple..how much is a half kg apple.

154. Half kg, 3 peices two cents

155. Your apples are very expensive.

156. Half kg, 3 peices two cents is not expensive. You see, my apples are big. Ok, be a freind, 3 peices
half kg.

157. How much for half kg bananas?

158.

159. I buy 3(jin) bananas and 2(jin) apples.

160. Total 12 kuai money. I'll gift you another apple. What do you want more?

161. No more,thank you, i am giving you money.

162. Fine, you give me 20 kuai money, i'll give you change 6 kuai bye.

163. Bye.

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164. Master, i am going to lanuage institute, excuse me ( may i ask ), what time is it now?

165. A quarter to eight. You can speak chinese?

166. I can speak chinese a little. I am student, now i am going(back) to take class.

167. When do you start the class?/ When do you go to the class?

168. Eight o'clock i go to the class. Master (driver), can we reach there at 8 o'clock?

169. (We) can reach.your chinese is good.

170. It's nothing, my chinese is not very good. Can you(respect) speak english.

171. I can't speak english. I also like foreign languages and often learn english at home.
172. Who teaches you english?

173. My grand daughter.

174. Really interesting. How old is she (this year)?

175. 6 years. My age is too much (i am too old), it is not easy to learn english.

176. How old are you (formal)?

177. My age is/ i am 52. The language institute is here/ (here we are at the language institute)

Now five minutes short to 8 o'clock, you still have 5 minutes.

178. Thank you, i am giving you money.

179. You give me 20, i am giving you change 5 kuai 4 mao. Ok!

180. You can speak english.

181. I also can ( speak) a little bit. Bye bye.

182. Bye bye!

183. Teacher laoshi, Ma Dawei can not come to the class today.

184. Why she can not come to the class?

185. Yesterday was sunday. He went to the mall to buy things in the morning and went to

Freind's house to play in the afternoon. He returned to college at 11.30 in the night, wrote

Chinese characters at 12 o'clock, slept at 2 o'clock. Now he has not got up yet.

186. He should have come to take the class.

187. Teacher, may i ask you a question?

188.( You ) may.

189. Why we start the class at 8 o'clock.

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190. Dawei, you get up at six every day, go to excersice, physical training, now its 9.15, why are

You still in bed?

191. I've headache.

192. How is your throat?

193. My throat hurts too.

194. I think you must go to see the doctor.

195. I am fine ( i've no problem with my body ), i don't have to go to the doctor. I want to sleep,

I don't want to go to the hospital.

196. You don't go to see the doctor, you can't go to the class tomorrow.

197. Ok, i'll go to the hospital. Go now or go in the afternoon?

198. Offcourse go now, i'll go with you. Today's weather is very cold, you have to wear more

Clothes.

199. You have a rest in here, i am going to register you.

200. Fine.

201. Eight! Whi is number eight?

202. I am number eight.

203. Are you seeing the doctor or he is seeing the doctor?

204. He will see.

205. Please sit down, your name is Ma Dawei right?

206. Yes, my name is Ma Dawei.

207. How old are you?

208. I am 22 years old (this year)

209. What is wrong with you. / Where are you not feeling well?

210. I have headache, my body is not comfortable.

211. Let me see. Your throat is little inflamed, and there is a fever. It as a cold.

212. Does he want(need) to be hospitalized?

213. Need not. You have to drink more water, you have to take some medicine. Are you willing

To eat chinese medicine or western medecine?

214. I am willing to eat chinese medicine.

215. Fine, you have a little chinese medicine and come back next monday.

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216. Dawei i heard (was told) that you have cold, how is your health now?

217. I went to the hospital. I have taken dozens of traditional chinese medicine. I still have

some pain in head.

218. You should rest more.

219. Song hua, i want to tell you something(one thing).

220. Wats up?

221. I met a beautiful girl, she is willing to be my girlfreind. We often go for a walk together,

watch movie together, drink coffee, listen music together.

222. Congratulations! This is good.

223. Thank you, it is good, but my dormitory is too small, she can not often comes to my place. I want to
find a house.

224. Do you want to rent a house.

225. Yes, i want to rent a house with a kitchen and a bathroom. The rent cannot be too expensive. .

226. I am going to rent a rental company with you, ok ?

227. That's great!

228. That house rent is too expensive, (you say) what do you think is should do?

229. Do you want to rent or don't want to rent?

230. Offcourse i want to rent.

231. I called Lu Yuping and asked him to help us./ I am calling Lu Yuping, let him come to help us.

232. He is very bussy, will he come?

233. He will come.

234. Hello who Is speaking?

235. I am song hua. me and dawei are at rental company now.

236. How are you there?

237. Dawei want to rent a house.

238. Did you see the house?

239. We saw a house, that house is very good, with a bathroom and a living room, but the rent is a bit
expensive.

240. Have you found and talked to the manager?

241. We didn't( find) talked to the manager.

242. Song hua, the manager of this company is my freind.let me tell (speak to) him and ask him to help
you, I think there may be no problem.

243. Ok we'll invite you and your freind to dinner this evening.

244. Fine, you are waiting for me at the company, bye.

245. Bye.

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246. Lipo at 10.30 in the moning your mother called you. I told her that you are not here. I make her call you
again at noon.

247. I just went to post office abd sent something to my mother, dawei, i cleaned the dormitory today, you
have too many dirty clothes.

248. Sorry(embarrasing), i was too bussy these two days. I want(need) saturday. / I've been very bussy during
the last few days. I want to wash them all on saturday.

249. Hey, hello, who are you looking for? Ah Ding Lipo, please wait, Lipo your mother's phone.

250. Thank you, mama how are you?

251. Lipo, how are you?

252. I am very good. How is your and dad's health?

253. My health is good, your papa is also good. We are very bussy at work. How is your grandmother's
health?.

254. Her health is good. She asked me to send you greetings.

255. We also send her greetings, how are your elder bro and younger bro?

256. They both are also good. My brother is working now in a middle school. Younger brother is traveling
south. We all miss you.
257. We all miss you, how are you doing now? Is the dormitory you live in big? How many people live/ are
there?

258. Two students share a room in our international student's dormitory building. I live with an american, his
chinese name is Ma Dawei.

259. He also studies chinese?

260. Correct, he also studies chinese. I still have many chinese freinds, they often help me to read new words,
review texts and practice speaking. I often ask them grammer question. They all are my very good freinds.

261. This is good. Lipo, have you spend christmas in china. This year you can't be home. Me and your father
want to send you a christmas gift.

262. Thank you(pl). I also sent you a christmas present.

263. Is it? Christmas festival, me and your father want to go to travel europe, and you? You are going to travel
or not?

264. I want to travel Shanghai.

265. Shanghai is very beautiful. I wish you a happy journey.

266. Thank you. I also wish you and dad a merry christmas.