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Now let's take a look at a new grammar point.

In this grammar video, we will look at how to say, I want to do something, like, I
want
to learn Chinese, I want to read books.
Is it useful to be able to express wishes?
Yeah, it's useful, right?
If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you say, I want to eat this, or I want to order
that,
right?
You need to know how to say, I want to.
So let's turn our textbook to page 58, and take a look at grammar point number one.
To put it very simply, I want to is expressed with the word xiǎng, xiǎng, to want.
For example, I want to learn Chinese, wǒ xiǎng xué hàn yǔ.
I want to read books, wǒ xiǎng kàn shū.
I want to go to school to read books, wǒ xiǎng qù xué xiào kàn shū.
So xiǎng means to want.
I want to buy, wǒ xiǎng mǎi.
I want to buy a cup, wǒ xiǎng mǎi yíge bēizi.
Notice that xiǎng is the third tone, mǎi is the third tone.
So when you have two third tones together, what do you have to do?
Yes, change the first one to a second tone, so it becomes wǒ xiǎng mǎi yíge bēizi,
wǒ xiǎng mǎi yíge bēizi.
Cool, here's a quick practice, how do you say, what do you want to buy, nǐ xiǎng
mǎi shénme?
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.