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Soccer/Football I: Key Words of The Day
Soccer/Football I: Key Words of The Day
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Soccer/Football I
Y: Improve your Chinese every day, right here in the Chinese Studio. Welcome in, wo shi
Yajie.
B: And wo shi B. You know Y, in just a few days we’ve got the greatest show on earth, the
soccer World Cup of course, and I need to do some serious preparation. How about it?
Y: A goal in one, I might be mixing my sports there, anyway it’s a great topic. Let’s check our
key words of the day.
B: Let’s get the ball into play. First up, it’s known throughout the world as football, or soccer,
what about here in China Y?
Y: We call it zu2 qiu2.
B: zu2 qiu2.
Y: zu2 is foot,
B: zu2
Y: qiu2 is ball,
B: qiu2,
Y: so soccer is: zu2 qiu2.
B: zu2 qiu2. And how about soccer fans?
Y: it’s qiu2 mi2.
B: qiu2 mi2.
Y: as mi2 means fans in Chinese,
B: mi2.
Y: qiu2 mi2.
B: qiu2 mi2. Soccer fans.
Conversation 1
A: 你是球迷吗?
B: 当然了。我尤其喜欢足球。
B: For me, football is all about goals, you know Y, when the ball hits the back of the net, what
we call those?
Y: That would be qiu2 men2.
B: qiu2 men2.
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Y: men2 literally means door, qiu2 men2.
B: qiu2 men2. goal. So, what’s the score?
Y: You mean bi3 fen1.
B: bi3 fen1.
Y: bi3 is short for bi3 sai4, which means soccer match,
B: bi3,
Y: fen1 means score,
B: fen1,
Y: bi3 fen1
B: bi3 fen1, the score.
Conversation 2
A: 现在场上比分多少?
B: 比分是二比一。
Conversation 3
A: 你最喜欢哪支球队?
B: 我最喜欢巴西队。你呢?你最喜欢哪支球队?
A: 我最喜欢中国队。
B: I wonder how can I ask you: who your favorite player is, Y?
Y: That’s easy, just change some words: qiu2 xing1 for players, especially for those famous
players.
B: Yes, I remember that xing1 means stars…qiu2 xing1.
Y: and ge4 is the measure word for player,
B: ge4.
Y: so who’s your favorite player? In Chinese it’s ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 na3 ge4 qiu2 xing1.
B: ni3 zui4 xi3 huan1 na3 ge4 qiu2 xing1. Who’s your favorite player?
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Conversation 4
A: 你最喜欢哪个球星?
B: 我最喜欢贝克汉姆。
B: Let’s go and play, I’ll be Beijing and you can be Shanghai, how’s that?
Y: Sounds like fun, but first our question though. How do you say, “soccer”
in Chinese?
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