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LCN 051
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we need chopsticks
M: Dajia hao. Huan ying nimen dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML.
M: We don’t use a knife and fork. 我们不用刀叉, women bu yong dao cha.
M: Women yao yi ge tang. Women yao, we want, women yao. Yi ge tang, tang
TANG tang, is ‘soup’. Women yao yi ge tang.
S: 所以,我们要用勺子.
M: Suoyi, women yao yong shaozi. 用 YONG yong, is to ‘use’, yong. 勺子 SHAO
ZI shaozi, ‘spoon’, shaozi. So we want to use spoons, suoyi, women yao yong
shaozi.
M: Women hai yao yong wan. 碗 WAN wan, ‘bowl’, as in soup bowl. Women hai
yao yong wan.
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S: Women yao, we want. Women hai yao, ‘and we want’, or “and we also need’.
Women hai yao yong wan. We also need bowls.
M: Women bu yong dao cha. 刀 DAO dao, is ‘knife’, dao. So what is 叉 CHA cha?
Dui le, fork. Dao cha, knife and fork, dao cha.
S: So say, ‘we don’t use a knife and fork’. Dui le, women bu yong dao cha.
S: Hen hao. Now the dialogue again, and you can keep your fingers clean. ML
yao dian ba ge cai.
S: Followed all this? Henhao! Now gongke time. Practice saying ‘I want to use …’
and ‘I don’t want to use … chopsticks, knife and fork, spoon – the utensils we’ve
learnt.’
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