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CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
2 DIALOGUE
3 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
3 VOCAB LIST
5 VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
9 LESSON FOCUS
13 OUTRO
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INTRODUCTION
David: And, we’re here today with Upper Beginner, Season 1, Lesson 19 - Patience is
a virtue in China.
David: Right. So, we had a lesson that take place at home, the dialogue is between
two parents …..
David: who are talking about their kids, and their children’s future…
David: Is famous [*], I guess. So, yes. So this is casual mandarin, as always. Let’s
get to the dialogue.
DIALOGUE
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B: 我以为这学期已经结束了。(Wǒ yǐwéi zhè xuéqī yǐjīng jiéshù le.)
David: Very, very patriotic. So, our vocab today is all about classes, and semesters in
courses and stuff. So, let’s get to it.
Amber: 孩子。(háizi.)
VOCAB LIST
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David: Child.
David: To play.
David: Piano.
David: Class.
David: Semester.
David: Already.
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David: To finish.
David: To go on break.
David: Let’s have a closer look at some of these words. Our first word is?
Amber: 课。(kè.)
David: Class.
Amber: 课。(kè.)
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Amber: 数学课,音乐课。(Shùxué kè, yīnyuè kè.)
David: Yes. So, and classes are normally organized into semesters.
David: Semester.
Amber: 学期。(Xuéqí.)
David: Now, we’ve got two measure words for courses that we cover in this lesson.
The first is in the dialogue. It’s?
Amber: 节。(Jié.)
Amber: 节。(Jié.)
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David: Two classes.
David: So, here we’re talking about just one individual class.
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Amber: 一个学期有三门课。(Yīgè xuéqí yǒusān mén kè.)
David: Right. So, there are two measure words. The first?
Amber: 节。(Jié.)
David: Right. You take those classes and you turn them into a course. And, you need
to say?
David: Right.
David: Right. Maybe for piano, if you’re doing it once a week. That’s three months.
Amber: 结束。(Jiéshù.)
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David: “To end”
Amber: 结束。(Jiéshù.)
David: Right. And, that’s a verb, of course. Often, when it finishes, people will go on
vacation, and we heard that word in our dialogue, too.
David: Right. And, they’re talking with the teachers, here. They’ve run out.
David: Anyway, that’s our vocab for today. We’re going to move on to the grammar
section, now. We’ve got a great adverb for you.
LESSON FOCUS
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M2: It’s grammar time.
Amber: 快。(Kuài.)
David: Now, we’ve run into this in earlier lessons, but we saw it there as an adjective.
Amber: 对。(Duì.)
David: Right. In our dialogue, though, we hear it in a different context with a different
meaning. Let’s listen to that sentence again.
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David: “I said almost over. Almost.”
David: Right. So, in this case, it’s not an adjective. We’ve got an adverb. It’s coming in
front of the verb and it’s meaning that something is going to happen soon.
David: Right. It’s going to end soon, it’s almost over, very soon it’s going to be over.
Right? For instance, “We’ll be on vacation, quickly.”
David: Right. How about the sentence “He’s coming to China”, soon.”?
David: Right. And, that’s a good example, because he’s not moving to China, quickly.
David: Right. It’s not the active lie, which is happening quickly. It’s the sense that the
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verb, it’s going to happen soon.
David: Right. He’s going to be two, three days, he’s going to be in Beijing.
David: Right. That’s something the teacher might say to the student. And, there’re two
interesting things to note. First is, we emphasize that something is going to happen
quickly by adding an extra verb here.
Amber: 要。(Yào.)
David: This is optional. But, you can add this to add extra emphasis.
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Amber: 快结束了。(Kuài jiéshùle.)
David: Or
David: And, the second point is that our sentences are ending with a 了.(Le.)
David: Right. It’s the modal particle in playing change of state, because this change is
going to happen soon.
OUTRO
David: Right. All right. So, today, we talked about the adverb.
Amber: 快。(Kuài.)
David: When you put it in front of a verb, it doesn’t mean “fast”. It means “something is
almost going to happen” or “it’s going to happen soon”.
David: And, with that, that’s our lesson for today. Ok. From Beijing, I’m David.
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Amber: 下次见, 拜拜!(Xià cì jiàn, bàibài!)
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