LESSON NOTES

3-Minute Chinese S1 #8
Talking About Your Age

CONTENTS
2 Simplified Chinese
2 Traditional Chinese
2 Pinyin
2 English
3 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar
5 Cultural Insight

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 SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

1.

2.

3. 17

4.

TRADITIONAL CHINESE

1.

2.

3. 17

4.

PINYIN

1. n du d le?

2. n j sule?

3. w shq su.

4. w k fng go.

ENGLISH
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1. How old are you?

2. How old are you?

3. I am 17.

4. I prefer not to say.

VOCABULARY

S implie d Tr aditional Pinyin English C lass

to tell, to inform verb

can (adding
emphasis) adverb

no adjective

seventeen number

question
du d how old pronoun

particle

le indicating a particle
state

n you pronoun

how many question word

year-old measure word

w I pronoun

SAMPLE SENTENCES

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N du d le? Sh n ma?

How old are you? (asking kids or adults) Is it you?

W jio Wng Ln.

I am called Wang Lin.

GRAMMAR

In this lesson you will learn how to ask someone's age and to say yours.

Register Thai Romanization English

How old are

Phrase 1 informal n du d le? you?

Word 1 n you

Word 2 du d how old

particle
indicating a
Word 3 le
state

How old are

Phrase 2 formal n j sule? you?

Word 1 n you

Word 2 j how many

Word 3 su year-old

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 particle
Word 4 indicating a
le
state

Phrase 3 formal 17 w shq su. I am 17.

Word 1 w I

Word 2 shq seventeen

Word 3 su year-old

w k fng I prefer not to

Phrase 4 formal go. say.

Word 1 w no

can (adding
Word 2 k emphasis)

Word 3 fng go to tell, to inform

CULTURAL INSIGHT

When we talk about numbers like telephone numbers, bus numbers and so on, we
pronounce 1 as yo.
For example, a bus number one-oh-one would usually be pronounced as yo lng yo in
Chinese. You can even use yo instead of y meaning "number one" when saying phone
numbers. Try it when you are in China! People will be impressed.

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