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Revision: Sentences in The Week
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Yajie: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I’m
Yajie.
Cam: It’s good to be back. Zao shang hao Yajie. Time sure flies. We are already at the end
of the week. That means it’s time for us to go over what we’ve learned.
Yajie: This week we mainly focused on how to use numbers. Let’s go over Sentences In The
week.
Yajie: In Chinese, the four figures making up the name of a year are read out as four separate
numbers and “年” is put at the end. For example, this year, 2003 年 (èr líng líng sān nián), the
year 2003.
Cam: 2003 年 (èr líng líng sān nián).
Yajie:Sometime people also say 两千零三年.
Cam: 两千零三年 (liǎng qiān líng sān nián).
Yajie: In Chinese the year 2000 is 2000 年 (èr líng líng líng nián).
Cam: 2000 年 (èr líng líng ling nián).
Yajie: Or you can say两千年 (liǎng qiān nián).
Yajie: Month in Chinese is 月(yuè). The name of the months are produced by combining the
numbers 1 to 12 with “月”.
Cam: January is一月 (yī yuè),February is二月 (èr yuè), right?
Yajie: Exactly! And how to say March?
Cam: Is it 四月(Si yue)?
Yajie: Nope, March in Chinese is 三月 (sān yuè). Remember we said, the name of the months
are produced by combining the numbers 1 to 12 with “月”.
Cam: OK. I see. March is 三月 (sān yuè).
Yajie: In Chinese, the names of the dates are produced by combining the numbers 1 to 31
with 号, which is the spoken form for date, or 日, the written form. For example, December
25th, Christmas十二月二十五号 (shí èr yuè èrshí wǔ hào).
Cam: 十二月二十五日 (shí èr yuè èrshí wǔ hào). And the New Year is on the 一月一号(yī yuè yī
hào), right?
Yajie: Right, it’s一月一号(yī yuè yī hào).
Yajie: If you want to ask a child’s age, you could say “你几岁了?” (nǐ jǐ suì le?) 几 means how
many. And 岁 means age.