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Making Travel Arrangements I: Key Words of The Day
Making Travel Arrangements I: Key Words of The Day
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Y: Dajia hao, hello everyone, improve your Chinese every day, right here in the Chinese
Studio. Welcome in, Wo shi Y.
B: And, wo shi B. Y, I still need to make some travel arrangements. Can you help me with that
this week please?
Y. Sure. Let’s check our key words of the day.
B: I love traveling whenever I have an opportunity. So I’m off to see a travel agency.
Y: That’s a lv3 xing2 she4.
B: lv3 xing2 she4
Y: lv3 xing2 means travel,
B: lv3 xing2
Y: she4 means agency,
B: she4.
Y: lv3 xing2 she4
B: lv3 xing2 she4 travel agency. Then I want to book a flight to Shanghai, how do I say that
Yajie?
Y: You can say wo3 yao4 ding4 yi4 zhang1 qu4 shang4 hai3 de ji1 piao4.
B:… it’s a long one, let me try that. wo3 yao4 ding4 yi4 zhang1 qu4 shang4 hai3 de ji1 piao4.
Y: wo3 yao4 means I want to do sth,
B: wo3 yao4,
Y: ding4 means book a ticket,
B: ding4,
Y: yi4 zhang1 means one,
B: yi4 zhang1,
Y: qu4 shang4 hai3 to Shanghai,
B: qu4 shang4 hai3
Y: ji1 piao4, plain ticket,
B: ji1 piao4
Y: 我要订一张去上海的机票
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B: wo3 yao4 ding4 yi4 zhang1 qu4 shang4 hai3 de ji1 piao4. I want to book a flight to
Shanghai.
Conversation 1
A: 我要订一张去上海的机票
B: 好的。您要哪天的?
A: 明天的有吗?
B:请稍等,我帮您查一下。
B: So the lv3 xing2 she4 asks me when I want to go. Next week, actually next Tuesday.
Y: next Tuesday in Chinese is xia4 zhou1 er4.
B: Let’s try that. xia4 zhou1 er4.
Y: xia4 zhou1 means next week,
B: xia4 zhou1,
Y: er4 is short for xing1 qi1 er4, which means Tuesday,
B: er4,
Y: xia4 zhou1 er4,
B: xia4 zhou1 er4 next Tuesday.,
Conversation 2
A: 我要订一张去上海的机票。
B: 好的。您需要哪天的?
A: 下周二
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Y: tou2 deng3 means first class,
B: tou2 deng3
Y: tou2 deng3 cang1
B: tou2 deng3 cang1 first class,
Conversation 3
A:有去香港的经济舱的机票吗?
B:对不起,我们现在只剩头等舱了。
B: I’m getting excited at the prospect of more travel. You better bring me back down to earth
though Y with today’s question.
Y: Here we are. How do you say, “I want to book a flight to Shanghai” in Chinese?
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