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LCN 157
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M: Péngyǒumen. Nǐmen hǎo! Huānyíng shōutīng Xiànzài Xué Hànyǔ. Wǒ shì ML.
S: Wǒ shì Stuart. Today we’ll learn how to ask and tell someone’s age. Very
useful for cutting out underage drinking!
M: There are several ways to ask someone’s age. Here’s a common one. Stuart,
你多大了 nǐ duō dà le?
M: So, the simplest way to ask someone’s age is 你多大了 nǐ duō dà le? The 多
DUO duō, here literally means ‘how much’. 多大 ‘how much big?’ and it means
‘how old?’. And we usually put the little le at the end. How old are you 你多大了?
Say it, everybody, nǐ duō dà le?
M: Now, did anyone hear the word for ‘year’ when we’re talking about
someone’s age?
S: So now everybody ask, How old are you? And then answer, Forty-one.
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M: Now ask, How old is he? And answer 55.
S: Good. Now put in the jīnnián, and ask, How old are you this year?
S: Welcome back! Now, one thing. We’ve learnt ‘nǐ duō dà le’, and ‘nǐ jīn niàn
duō dà le’. You would usually use these to ask someone roughly your age or
younger.
M: We’ll learn how to ask the age of someone older than you in our next lesson.
Now let’s practice asking some women their age.
S: Very dangerous, but we have to learn 女士 NV SHI, which means ‘Ms.’, ‘Mrs.’,
or Madam, nǚshì.
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