Essential Mandarin Chinese in 2 hours with Paul Noble: Mandarin Chinese Made Easy with Your Bestselling Language Coach (Book Only) 0008287155, 9780008287153

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Published by Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Westerhill Road Bishopbriggs Glasgow G64 2QT www.harpercollins.co.uk First Edition 2018 © Paul Noble 2018 ISBN 978-0-00-828715-3 ISBN 978-0-00-828711-5 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.collinsdictionary.com Typeset by Davidson Publishing Solutions, Glasgow Produced by Sony DADC All rights reserved. Words that we have reason to believe constitute trademarks have been designated as such. However, neither the presence nor absence of such designation should be regarded as affecting the legal status of any trademark. If you would like to comment on any aspect of this product, please contact us at the given address or online. E-mail: [email protected] www.facebook.com/collinsdictionary @collinsdict Other languages in the Collins with Paul Noble series: French, Italian, Spanish

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How to use this booklet This booklet has been designed to provide you with a quick and easy way to review and reinforce the key vocabulary, structures and contents of your Paul Noble Method Chinese course. Although the core part of your learning will take place via your use of the accompanying course recordings, we have also included this booklet in order to provide you with a quick reference guide to the language. It is worth noting that this booklet should be used after you have begun working through the audio recording. It will serve as excellent reinforcement, guidance and review material but is not designed to teach you Chinese by itself. This is what the audio recording will do – and very rapidly too. After you have begun listening to the course, you will then find this booklet to be an extremely useful review and reference resource but you must start by listening to the recording first. So, if you haven’t done so already, go and press play on that first audio track and get started. You’re about to find out just how good a course this is!

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Core course review The best way to use this part of your booklet is to start by reading through a page, looking at both the English and the Chinese. Then go back to the beginning of that same page and, while covering the Chinese side of the text, translate the English into Chinese – just as you did when you listened to the audio part of the course. Once you can get 90% of a page’s content correct, move on to the next page and follow the process again. By doing this, you will quickly recall and reinforce what you learnt with the course recordings. A note about the format Each sentence provided in the core course review is laid out with the English on the left-hand side and the Chinese on the right. The Chinese side provides three written versions of the Chinese translation. For example: I want fried noodles.    

៥㽕♦咉DŽ ៥㽕♦䴶DŽ Wǒ yào chǎo miàn.

All three versions say exactly the same thing in Chinese The top version is a translation of the English that has been written in traditional Chinese characters. This is the written form of Chinese currently used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The middle version is a translation of the English that has been written in simplified Chinese characters. This is the written form of Chinese currently used in Mainland China. The bottom version is a translation of the English that has been written in the Romanized version of Chinese, known as “Pinyin”. It is used by non-Chinese to read the language. It includes tone marks to let you know which tone to use for each syllable. Use whichever helps you most I have included all three versions here so that you can use this booklet in whichever way suits you best. If you are mostly interested in learning to speak the language then you will probably want to read the bottom, Romanized version. If you are planning to learn the written language used in Mainland China, you will wish to learn how to read the middle, simplified version. If you are planning to learn the written language used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, you will wish to learn how to read the top, traditional version.

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Talking about what you want and would like to do.

Want ៥㽕 ៥㽕

I want

Wǒ yào

chow mein / fried noodles

♦咉 ♦䴶 chǎo miàn

I want fried noodles.

៥㽕♦咉DŽ ៥㽕♦䴶DŽ Wǒ yào chǎo miàn.

䈚㜤 䈚㜤

tofu

dòufu

៥㽕䈚㜤DŽ ៥㽕䈚㜤DŽ

I want tofu.

Wǒ yào dòufu.

੠ ੠

and

hé

I want tofu and fried noodles.

៥㽕䈚㜤੠♦咉DŽ ៥㽕䈚㜤੠♦䴶DŽ Wǒ yào dòufu hé chǎo miàn.

ϡ ϡ

not  



I don’t want / I not want      

bù

៥ϡ㽕 ៥ϡ㽕 Wǒ bù yào

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I don’t want tofu and fried noodles.   

៥ϡ㽕䈚㜤੠♦咉DŽ ៥ϡ㽕䈚㜤੠♦䴶DŽ Wǒ bù yào dòufu hé chǎo miàn.

You want    

 

spoken question mark   

Դ㽕 Դ㽕 Nǐ yào

஢˛ ৫˛ ma?

fried rice  



♦仃 ♦佁 chǎo fàn

Do you want fried rice?   

Դ㽕♦仃஢˛ Դ㽕♦佁৫˛ Nǐ yào chǎo fàn ma?

Yes.  



㽕DŽ 㽕DŽ Yào.

No.  



ϡ㽕DŽ ϡ㽕DŽ Bù yào.

NOTE! To answer “yes” or “no” to a question in Chinese, you simply repeat part of what you’ve been asked. If you’re asked “do you want fried rice?” you’ll simply say “want” in order to answer “yes”. And, if you want to answer “no”, you’ll simply say “not want”. It’s really fairly simple and logical – once you get used to it.

Pockmarked Grandma’s Tofu / mapo tofu    

咏ယ䈚㜤 咏ယ䈚㜤

Do you want mapo tofu?   

Դ㽕咏ယ䈚㜤஢˛ Դ㽕咏ယ䈚㜤৫˛

mápó dòufu

Nǐ yào mápó dòufu ma?

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Don’t you want mapo tofu?   

Դϡ㽕咏ယ䈚㜤஢˛ Դϡ㽕咏ယ䈚㜤৫˛ Nǐ bù yào mápó dòufu ma?

NOTE! As well as using the spoken question mark “஢?”/“৫?”/“ma?” to ask questions, you can also use a “want-not-want” type of construction. 1

Do you want? (WNW )   

Դ㽕ϡ㽕˛ Դ㽕ϡ㽕˛ Nǐ yào bù yào?

Do you want fried rice and mapo tofu? (WNW) 

Դ㽕ϡ㽕♦仃੠咏ယ䈚㜤˛ Դ㽕ϡ㽕♦佁੠咏ယ䈚㜤˛ Nǐ yào bù yào chǎo fàn hé mápó dòufu?

tea  



㤊 㤊 chá

Do you want tea and mapo tofu? (WNW) 

Դ㽕ϡ㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤˛ Դ㽕ϡ㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤˛ Nǐ yào bù yào chá hé mápó dòufu?

㽕DŽ 㽕DŽ

Yes.

Yào.

Yes, I want tea and mapo tofu.

㽕ˈ៥㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ 㽕ˈ៥㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ Yào, wǒ yào chá hé mápó dòufu.

No.  



ϡ㽕DŽ ϡ㽕DŽ Bù yào.

No, I don’t want tea and mapo tofu.   

ϡ㽕ˈ៥ϡ㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ ϡ㽕ˈ៥ϡ㽕㤊੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ Bù yào, wǒ bù yào chá hé mápó dòufu.

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Whenever you see “WNW” next to a question, this means you should construct this sentence using a “want-not-want” type of construction rather than using the spoken question mark “஢˛”/ ”৫˛”/ “ma?”

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NOTE! Just as in English, you can give short “yes” or “no” answers to questions or you can be very emphatic and say things like “No, I don’t want tea and mapo tofu.” Most of the time, of course, just like in English, you’ll probably just say “yes” or “no” but, if you feel you need to be very emphatic, you at least know how to do so!

He wants  



Ҫ㽕 Ҫ㽕 Tā yào

He doesn’t want  



Ҫϡ㽕 Ҫϡ㽕 Tā bù yào

to go / to go to  



এ এ 2

qù

Beijing  



࣫Ҁ ࣫Ҁ Běijīng

Does he want to go to Beijing? (WNW) 

Ҫ㽕ϡ㽕এ࣫Ҁ˛ Ҫ㽕ϡ㽕এ࣫Ҁ˛ Tā yào bù yào qù Běijīng?

He doesn’t want to go to Beijing.   

Ҫϡ㽕এ࣫ҀDŽ Ҫϡ㽕এ࣫ҀDŽ Tā bù yào qù Běijīng.

She doesn’t want   

ཌྷϡ㽕 ཌྷϡ㽕 Tā bù yào

Shanghai  



Ϟ⍋ Ϟ⍋ Shànghǎi

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“To go” – “qù” – is pronounced in an interesting way. To say it correctly, you simply round your lips as though you are going to whistle and then, while keeping your lips still clearly rounded, say the “chee” from cheese. Do that and you’ll pronounce “qù” perfectly!

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She doesn’t want to go to Shanghai.   

ཌྷϡ㽕এϞ⍋DŽ ཌྷϡ㽕এϞ⍋DŽ Tā bù yào qù Shànghǎi.

Would like I would like    

 

I would like tea.    

 

special fried rice / house fried rice / Yangzhou fried rice

៥ᛇ㽕 ៥ᛇ㽕 Wǒ xiǎng yào

៥ᛇ㽕㤊DŽ ៥ᛇ㽕㤊DŽ Wǒ xiǎng yào chá.

᦮Ꮂ♦仃 ᡀᎲ♦佁 Yángzhōu chǎo fàn

I would like special fried rice and tea. 

៥ᛇ㽕᦮Ꮂ♦仃੠㤊DŽ ៥ᛇ㽕ᡀᎲ♦佁੠㤊DŽ Wǒ xiǎng yào Yángzhōu chǎo fàn hé chá.

I would like to go   

៥ᛇএ ៥ᛇএ Wǒ xiǎng qù

NOTE! As you learned during the course, to say “I would like to go” you can also say “wǒ xiǎng yào qù” / “៥ᛇ㽕এ” – this is in no way incorrect and is perfectly normal to say. However, it is very common to shorten this to simply “wǒ xiǎng qù” / “៥ᛇএ” as you did during the course.

Nanjing  



फҀ फҀ Nánjīng

I would like to go to Nanjing.   

៥ᛇএफҀDŽ ៥ᛇএफҀDŽ Wǒ xiǎng qù Nánjīng.

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restaurant / a restaurant / meal hall 令ᓇ    令ख़    cāntīng I would like to go to a restaurant.      

៥ᛇএ令ᓇDŽ ៥ᛇএ令ख़DŽ

You would like to go to a restaurant.      

Դᛇএ令ᓇDŽ Դᛇএ令ख़DŽ

Wǒ xiǎng qù cāntīng.

Nǐ xiǎng qù cāntīng.

Would you like to go to a restaurant? / Դᛇএ令ᓇ஢˛ You would like to go to a Դᛇএ令ख़৫˛ restaurant ma? Nǐ xiǎng qù cāntīng ma? to eat

ৗ ৗ chī

dinner

ᰮ令 ᰮ令 wǎncān

Would you like to go to a restaurant to eat dinner?

Դᛇএ令ᓇৗᰮ令஢˛ Դᛇএ令ख़ৗᰮ令৫˛ Nǐ xiǎng qù cāntīng chī wǎncān ma?

Would you like to go to a restaurant to eat a little mapo tofu?

Would you like to go to a restaurant to eat a little fried rice?

Good / Well

Դᛇএ令ᓇৗϔ咲咏ယ䈚㜤஢" Դᛇএ令ख़ৗϔ⚍咏ယ䈚㜤৫" Nǐ xiǎng qù cāntīng chī yīdiǎn mápó dòufu ma?

Դᛇএ令ᓇৗϔ咲♦仃஢" Դᛇএ令ख़ৗϔ⚍♦佁৫" Nǐ xiǎng qù cāntīng chī yīdiǎn chǎo fàn ma?

ད ད Hǎo

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Hello

Դད Դད Nǐ hǎo

How are you?

Դད஢˛ Դད৫˛ Nǐ hǎo ma?

Very

ᕜ ᕜ hěn

Very good / very well

ᕜད ᕜད hěn hǎo

I’m very well

៥ᕜདDŽ ៥ᕜདDŽ Wǒ hěn hǎo

He is very well.

ҪᕜདDŽ ҪᕜདDŽ Tā hěn hǎo.

She’s very well.

ཌྷᕜདDŽ ཌྷᕜདDŽ Tā hěn hǎo.

Thank you

䃱䃱 䇶䇶 Xièxie

She’s very well, thank you.

ཌྷᕜད䃱䃱ʽ ཌྷᕜད䇶䇶ʽ Tā hěn hǎo, xièxie.

He’s very well, thank you.

Ҫᕜད䃱䃱ʽ Ҫᕜད䇶䇶ʽ Tā hěn hǎo, xièxie.

I’m very well, thank you.

៥ᕜད䃱䃱ʽ ៥ᕜད䇶䇶ʽ Wǒ hěn hǎo, xièxie.

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Okay

ད ད hǎo

Is that okay?

དϡད˛ དϡད˛ Hǎo bù hǎo?

I would like to go to a restaurant. Is that okay?

៥ᛇএ令ᓇˈདϡད˛ ៥ᛇএ令ख़ˈདϡད˛ Wǒ xiǎng qù cāntīng, hǎo bù hǎo?

I would like to eat dinner. Is that okay?

៥ᛇৗᰮ令ˈདϡད˛ ៥ᛇৗᰮ令ˈདϡད˛ Wǒ xiǎng chī wǎncān, hǎo bù hǎo?

I would like to go to a restaurant to eat dinner. Is that okay?

I would like special fried rice and tea.

៥ᛇএ令ᓇৗᰮ令DŽདϡད˛ ៥ᛇএ令ख़ৗᰮ令DŽདϡད˛ Wǒ xiǎng qù cāntīng chī wǎncān. Hǎo bù hǎo?

៥ᛇ㽕᦮Ꮂ♦仃੠㤊DŽ ៥ᛇ㽕ᡀᎲ♦佁੠㤊DŽ Wǒ xiǎng yào Yángzhōu chǎo fàn hé chá.

She would like special fried rice / house fried rice and mapo tofu.

but

ཌྷᛇ㽕᦮Ꮂ♦仃੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ ཌྷᛇ㽕ᡀᎲ♦佁੠咏ယ䈚㜤DŽ Tā xiǎng yào Yángzhōu chǎo fàn hé mápó dòufu.

Ԛᰃ Ԛᰃ dànshì

I would like to go to a restaurant but she wouldn’t like to go.

៥ᛇএ令ᓇˈԚᰃཌྷϡᛇএDŽ ៥ᛇএ令ख़ˈԚᰃཌྷϡᛇএDŽ Wǒ xiǎng qù cāntīng dànshì tā bù xiǎng qù.

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I would like to go to Yangzhou but she’d like to go to Beijing.

I would like to go Yangzhou to eat special fried rice / house fried rice.

She would like to go to a restaurant to eat special / house fried rice.

a little

៥ᛇএ᦮ᎲˈԚᰃཌྷᛇএ࣫ҀDŽ ៥ᛇএᡀᎲˈԚᰃཌྷᛇএ࣫ҀDŽ Wǒ xiǎng qù Yángzhōu dànshì tā xiǎng qù Běijīng.

៥ᛇএ᦮Ꮂৗ᦮Ꮂ♦仃DŽ ៥ᛇএᡀᎲৗᡀᎲ♦佁DŽ Wǒ xiǎng qù Yángzhōu chī Yángzhōu chǎo fàn.

ཌྷᛇএ令ᓇৗ᦮Ꮂ♦仃DŽ ཌྷᛇএ令ख़ৗᡀᎲ♦佁DŽ Tā xiǎng qù cāntīng chī Yángzhōu chǎo fàn.

ϔ咲 ϔ⚍ yīdiǎn

She would like to go to a restaurant to eat a little special / house fried rice.

She would like to go to a restaurant to eat a little special / house fried rice but I wouldn’t like to go.

ཌྷᛇএ令ᓇৗϔ咲᦮Ꮂ♦仃DŽ ཌྷᛇএ令ख़ৗϔ⚍ᡀᎲ♦佁DŽ Tā xiǎng qù cāntīng chī yīdiǎn Yángzhōu chǎo fàn.

ཌྷᛇএ令ᓇৗϔ咲᦮Ꮂ♦仃ˈ Ԛᰃ៥ϡᛇএDŽ ཌྷᛇএ令ख़ৗϔ⚍ᡀᎲ♦佁ˈ Ԛᰃ៥ϡᛇএDŽ Tā xiǎng qù cāntīng chī yīdiǎn Yángzhōu chǎo fàn dànshì wǒ bù xiǎng qù.

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Numbers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

䳊 ϔ Ѡ ϝ ಯ Ѩ ݁ ϗ ܿ б क कϔ कѠ कϝ कಯ कѨ क݁ कϗ कܿ कб Ѡक Ѡकϔ ѠकѠ Ѡकϝ Ѡकಯ ѠकѨ Ѡक݁ Ѡकϗ Ѡकܿ Ѡकб ϝक ϝकϔ ϝकѠ ϝकϝ ϝकಯ ϝकѨ ϝक݁ ϝकϗ

líng yī èr 8 sān sì wǔ liù qī bā jiǔ shí shí yī shí èr shí sān shí sì shí wǔ shí liù shí qī shí bā shí jiǔ èr shí èr shí yī èr shí èr èr shí sān èr shí sì èr shí wǔ èr shí liù èr shí qī èr shí bā èr shí jiǔ sān shí sān shí yī sān shí èr sān shí sān sān shí sì sān shí wǔ sān shí liù sān shí qī

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38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78

ϝकܿ ϝकб ಯक ಯकϔ ಯकѠ ಯकϝ ಯकಯ ಯकѨ ಯक݁ ಯकϗ ಯकܿ ಯकб Ѩक Ѩकϔ ѨकѠ Ѩकϝ Ѩकಯ ѨकѨ Ѩक݁ Ѩकϗ Ѩकܿ Ѩकб ݁क ݁कϔ ݁कѠ ݁कϝ ݁कಯ ݁कѨ ݁क݁ ݁कϗ ݁कܿ ݁कб ϗक ϗकϔ ϗकѠ ϗकϝ ϗकಯ ϗकѨ ϗक݁ ϗकϗ ϗकܿ

sān shí bā sān shí jiǔ sì shí sì shí yī sì shí èr sì shí sān sì shí sì sì shí wǔ sì shí liù sì shí qī sì shí bā sì shí jiǔ wǔ shí wǔ shí yī wǔ shí èr wǔ shí sān wǔ shí sì wǔ shí wǔ wǔ shí liù wǔ shí qī wǔ shí bā wǔ shí jiǔ liù shí liù shí yī liù shí èr liù shí sān liù shí sì liù shí wǔ liù shí liù liù shí qī liù shí bā liù shí jiǔ qī shí qī shí yī qī shí èr qī shí sān qī shí sì qī shí wǔ qī shí liù qī shí qī qī shí bā

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79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119

ϗकб ܿक ܿकϔ ܿकѠ ܿकϝ ܿकಯ ܿकѨ ܿक݁ ܿकϗ ܿकܿ ܿकб бक бकϔ бकѠ бकϝ бकಯ бकѨ бक݁ бकϗ бकܿ бकб ϔⱒ ϔⱒ䳊ϔ ϔⱒ䳊Ѡ ϔⱒ䳊ϝ ϔⱒ䳊ಯ ϔⱒ䳊Ѩ ϔⱒ䳊݁ ϔⱒ䳊ϗ ϔⱒ䳊ܿ ϔⱒ䳊б ϔⱒϔक ϔⱒϔकϔ ϔⱒϔकѠ ϔⱒϔकϝ ϔⱒϔकಯ ϔⱒϔकѨ ϔⱒϔक݁ ϔⱒϔकϗ ϔⱒϔकܿ ϔⱒϔकб

qī shí jiǔ bā shí bā shí yī bā shí èr bā shí sān bā shí sì bā shí wǔ bā shí liù bā shí qī bā shí bā bā shí jiǔ jiǔ shí jiǔ shí yī jiǔ shí èr jiǔ shí sān jiǔ shí sì jiǔ shí wǔ jiǔ shí liù jiǔ shí qī jiǔ shí bā jiǔ shí jiǔ yī bǎi yī bǎi líng yī yī bǎi líng èr yī bǎi líng sān yī bǎi líng sì yī bǎi líng wǔ yī bǎi líng liù yī bǎi líng qī yī bǎi líng bā yī bǎi líng jiǔ yī bǎi yī shí yī bǎi yī shí yī yī bǎi yī shí èr yī bǎi yī shí sān yī bǎi yī shí sì yī bǎi yī shí wǔ yī bǎi yī shí liù yī bǎi yī shí qī yī bǎi yī shí bā yī bǎi yī shí jiǔ

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ϔⱒѠक ϔⱒѠकϔ ϔⱒѠकѠ ܽⱒ ܽⱒ䳊ϔ ܽⱒ䳊Ѡ ܽⱒ䳊ϝ ܽⱒ䳊ಯ ϝⱒ ಯⱒ Ѩⱒ ݁ⱒ ϗⱒ ܿⱒ бⱒ ϔग ܽग ϝग ಯग Ѩग ݁ग ϗग ܿग бग ϔ㨀 ܽ㨀 ϝ㨀 ಯ㨀 Ѩ㨀 ݁㨀 ϗ㨀 ܿ㨀 б㨀 क㨀 ϔⱒ㨀 ܽⱒ㨀 ϝⱒ㨀 ϔग㨀 ܽग㨀 ϔۘ

yī bǎi èr shí yī bǎi èr shí yī yī bǎi èr shí èr liǎng bǎi liǎng bǎi líng yī liǎng bǎi líng èr liǎng bǎi líng sān liǎng bǎi líng sì sān bǎi sì bǎi wǔ bǎi liù bǎi qī bǎi bā bǎi jiǔ bǎi yī qiān liǎng qiān sān qiān sì qiān wǔ qiān liù qiān qī qiān bā qiān jiǔ qiān yī wàn liǎng wàn sān wàn sì wàn wǔ wàn liù wàn qī wàn bā wàn jiǔ wàn shí wàn yī bǎi wàn liǎng bǎi wàn sān bǎi wàn yī qiān wàn liǎng qiān wàn yī yì

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CD track listing CD1 1

How to use this course

2

The Chinese language

3

I want

4

You want

5

Yes and no

6

Practising “yes” and “no”

7

Want-not-want

8

Chinese food culture

9

Pockmarked Grandma’s Tofu

10

Tea

11

To go

12

He / She

13

Chinese has tones

14

A little review

15

I would like

16

A little

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CD2 1

Practising with “I would like”

2

Pronunciation of chī vs qù

3

Shortening “I would like”

4

Practising with the shortened “I would like”

5

Restaurant

6

Dinner

7

Reviewing “want-not-want”

8

Hello. How are you?

9

Practising “I would like”

10

Yangzhou’s claim to fame

11

But

12

Goodbye

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