Unit 7
Part I: Listen and Learn 3
Click on the speaker icon of the
following sentences and listen to the recording. The Chinese characters
are in big5 format.
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John, n
Zh
nggu
hu
shu de h
n
h
o.
John, you speak Chinese very well.
John, 你中國話說得很好。
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N
l, b
x
ng, b xng.
Oh, no, not well yet.
哪裡﹐不行不行。
W
xinzi
zi xu Zhngwn.
I am learning Chinese now.
我現在在學中文。
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N jude Zhngwn
nn bu nn?
Do you think that Chinese is difficult
or not?
你覺得中文難不難﹖
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W jude kuy
b
ti nn,
xi
z
bjio
nn.
I feel that spoken Chinese is not
that difficult. Writing charcaters is relatively difficult.
我覺得中文口語不太難﹐寫字比較難。
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N hi hu
shu shnme wiy?
What other foreign language can
you speak?
你還會說什麼外語﹖
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W hi hu
shu Fy.
I can also speak French.
我還會說法語。
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Fy nn
bu nn?
Is French difficult?
法語難不難﹖
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B ti nn,
miyou Zhngwn
nn.
Not really, not as difficult as
Chinese.
不太難﹐沒有中文難。
Notes:
-
'b xng'
is a response to the compliment. It means 'no, it doesn't work' literally.
Actually it is a humble response to 'shu de
hn ho'.
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'miyou
Zhngwn nn'
means 'not that difficult compared to Chinese'.
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