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Now before our new lesson, let's first do a quick warm up.
Let's get started.
Okay, take a look at these pictures and tell me what you see.
So on the left, you see money, right?
On the top right corner, you see a girl doing shopping, right?
She's carrying a shopping bag and the woman at the bottom right, she's probably a
shopaholic
carrying all these bags.
So today we're going to talk about shopping and talk about money.
Now if you go to China and decided to do some shopping, what do you think are some
of the
phrases you might need to be able to communicate with shop owners?
Yeah, you have to know how to ask, how much is it?
What else?
Yeah, you also need to be able to count money, right?
You need to know how much money you have and to understand when shop owners tell
you how
much money things will cost.
And typically they will just get out a calculator and punch in some numbers, but
hey, if your
Chinese is good enough, then you can understand a verbal reply to your question.
How much is it?
So that's what we're going to look at today.
And we'll also learn how we can talk about what we want to do, what we want to eat,
so
we can express our desires and wishes.
Our lesson objectives are first, be able to talk about your intentions and plans,
be able
to say, I want to do this this afternoon, or I want to do this tomorrow, and be
able
to ask for quantities, like, how many teachers do you have?
Or how many cups do you have?
Things like that.
And give a response by indicating I have N teachers, or F, N cups.
To be able to ask for a price, right?
To be able to say, how much is it?
And give a response, this cost 2 yuan, this cost $3, etc.
And be able to do all of the above in reading, writing, and typing.
Cool.
Now let's turn to page 56, and complete the warm-up activity there, matching the
pictures
and the words.
Once you finish it, come back to this video, and we're going to look at the
dialogues.
The first dialogue is talking about desires and wishes.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to drink?
What do you want to eat?
Etc.
The first sentence is, nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?
That means, what do you want to drink?
The word xiǎng, xiǎng expresses want.
Wǒ xiǎng means I want, nǐ xiǎng, you want.
We're going to look at that in Grammar 1.8.1.
Hē means to drink, chá means tea, hē chá is drink tea.
You probably noticed the word chá sounds very similar to the word chái, right?
You go to Starbucks, you can buy a chái latte, because the word chái is derived
from the
word chá, which originates from China, right, and went from China into Europe, and
then
eventually it was growing in India.
That's why in India they call it chái, and in many other languages, like in
Russian,
for example, it's also called chái.
It all came from China, where chá first started.
The word for to eat is chī, and the favorite food in China is mǐ fàn, cooked rice,
mǐ
fàn.
And that's why the last sentence in the dialogue is wǒ xiǎng chī mǐ fàn, of course,
what
else do you want to eat, right?
Cool, now let's take a look at the next dialogue on page 57.
This dialogue is talking about making plans.
The first word is afternoon, xià wǔ, xià wǔ.
Do you already know what xià means?
Okay, xià means down, xià wǔ literally means below noon, below noon.
Wǔ means noon, and xià means down, so xià wǔ means below noon.
You can visualize a schedule, you can visualize a timetable, and xià wǔ is
referring to
that chunk of time afternoon.
So afternoon is xià wǔ, shop or store is shāng diàn, shāng diàn.
What do you do in a shāng diàn?
You buy things, mǎi, mǎi, that means to buy.
Finally, we have learned this word gè, gè means unit.
In Chinese, if you want to express any kind of quantities, you always need a
measure word,
and the most common measure word is gè, it simply means a unit of things.
So for example, three teachers would be sān gè lǎoshī, three students, sān gè
xuéshēng.
We're going to take a look at measure words in grammar 1.8.3.
Bēi zi means cup, it can also mean glass, so whether it has a handle or not,
whether
it's made of glass or ceramic, it doesn't matter, as long as it's for drinking,
it's
all bēi zi.
Now let's go to dialogue three on page 57, take a look at the dialogue and come
back
to the video after you have finished the dialogue.
Zhì wǒ means this, actually we have seen this word before, but it's just never
introduced
in the vocabulary, zhè means this.
Remember when we were talking about ārhuā, zhè is here, without ěr, zhè means this.
The next word is duōshǎo, duōshǎo means how many or how much, duō means a lot, and
shǎo means a few, so duōshǎo is like asking a lot or a few.
We're going to look at how to use duōshǎo in grammar 1.8.2.
Next word is money, qián, qián.
Next up is the unit of money in China, kuài, kuài.
One rénmínbì is yīkuài, one US dollar is also yīkuài, it's a generic colloquial
term that refers to a unit of currency.
nà means that, so here's a recap, xiǎng means to want, hē means to drink, chá means
tea, chī means to eat.
So I want to drink tea, wǒ xiǎng hē chá, I want to eat, wǒ xiǎng chī.
And Chinese people's favorite food, mǐ fàn, mǐ fàn, wǒ xiǎng chī mǐ fàn.
xià wǔ, afternoon, shāng diàn, shop, mǎi, to buy, I want to buy, wǒ xiǎng mǎi.
I want to go to the shop to buy, wǒ xiǎng qù shāng diàn mǎi.
I want to go to the shop to buy tea, wǒ xiǎng qù shāng diàn mǎi chá.
Next up, the generic measure word, gè, a cup or a glass, bēizi, this, zhè, how
much,
how many, duōshǎo, money is qián, duōshǎo qián is how much is it, duōshǎo qián,
zhège bēizi duōshǎo qián, how much is this cup, zhège bēizi duōshǎo qián.
Kuài is a generic unit of currency, and nà means that.
Now take a look at these characters without the pinyin.
xiǎng, hē, chá, chī, mǐ fàn, xiàwǔ, shāng diàn, mǎi, gè, bēizi, zhè, duōshǎo,
qián, kuài, nà, great, now review these characters and try and learn their names
starting
from the simpler ones like gè, for example, the generic counter, gè, looks like an
upward
arrow, right, pretty simple, and also zi in bēizi is also pretty simple, shǎo in
duōshǎo
also pretty simple, oh duō is actually made up of two identical parts, one on the
top
one on the bottom, right, so that's also pretty simple, mǐ, it's almost like an
asterisk,
mǐ in mǐ fàn, it's like the center part of the union jack, right, alright, cool.
Make sure that at the end of the unit you practice how to write Chinese characters
so
that you can write Chinese like a pro.
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.