Down to Chinese, a modular approach, Biographic Information Module Unit 1, Production Tape 1.
On the comprehension tape in this unit, you learn to understand a variety of sentences about where you're staying and some additional polite phrases and greetings.
Before you go on to learn how to say these things, let's review your understanding of them.
Give an English equivalent for each of the sentences in the following exchanges. Let's start.
Number 1,请问你住在哪儿?
May I ask, where are you staying?
我住在北京饭店。
I'm staying at the Peking Hotel.
Number 2,哪个人是梅同志?
Which person is come at me?
那个人是梅同志。
That person is come at me.
Number 3,你住在民族饭店吗?
Are you staying at the Nationalities Hotel?
是,我住在民族饭店。
Yes, I'm staying at the Nationalities Hotel.
Number 4,你住在这个饭店吗?
Are you staying at this hotel?
不,我不住在这个饭店。
No, I'm not staying at this hotel.
Number 5,江同志,您早。
Good morning, Comrade Jiang.
早,娜瓦克女士,您好。
Good morning, Miss Novak. How are you?
我很好。
I'm very well.
请问,你是美国哪儿的人?
May I ask, where are you from in America?
我是加州旧金山人。
I'm from San Francisco, California.
If you had any problems with these sentences,
rewind the tape and practice them some more.
If you understood them all,
you should begin learning how to say these things.
Listen to this exchange.
请问,你住在哪儿?
我住在北京饭店。
The verb to stay at 住在 is a compound
The verb to live 住 and the verb to be at 在,which you already know.
Repeat the verb to stay at.
Notice that the second syllable is in the neutral tone.
住在 住在 住在
Repeat the word for hotel.
Notice that both syllables have the falling tone.
饭店 饭店
Repeat the sentence,
I'm staying at the peaking hotel.
我住在北京饭店。
What's the verb to stay at?
住在
What's the word for hotel?
饭店
How do you say I'm staying at the peaking hotel?
我住在北京饭店。
Try answering the next question.
Say that you're staying at the peaking hotel.
请问,你住在哪儿?
我住在北京饭店。
Again,
请问,你住在哪儿?
我住在北京饭店。
Listen to a similar exchange.
你住在北京饭店吗?
是,我住在北京饭店。
The verb 是 is the short answer here indicating agreement.
Although many verbs may be used to give short answers,
the verb 住在 is not one of them.
Repeat, yes, I'm staying at the peaking hotel.
是,我住在北京饭店。
Try answering the next question.
Say yes, I'm staying at the peaking hotel.
你住在北京饭店吗?
是,我住在北京饭店。
Again,
请问,你住在北京饭店吗?
是,我住在北京饭店。
Here's another question about where you're staying at peaking.
Listen,
你住在民族饭店吗?
不,我不住在民族饭店。
Repeat nationalities hotel.
Notice that in the word nationalities,
both syllables have the rising tone.
民族饭店,
民族饭店。
In the phrase 不住在,
notice that the tone of the negative adverb 不
changes from falling tone to rising tone
before another falling tone.
Repeat, not to stay at.
不住在,不住在,不住在。
The short answer used here
is simply the negative adverb 不.
Repeat,
no, I'm not staying at the nationalities hotel.
不,我不住在民族饭店。
Try answering the question.
Tell him,
no, I'm not staying at the nationalities hotel.
你住在民族饭店吗?
不,我不住在民族饭店。
Again.
你住在民族饭店吗?
不,我不住在民族饭店。
Let's review a bit.
What's the word for hotel?
饭店.
How do you say,
picking hotel?
北京饭店.
How do you say,
nationalities hotel?
民族饭店.
What's the verb to stay at?
住在.
You might be asked about
where you're staying in yet another way.
Listen to this exchange.
你住在哪个饭店?
我住在北京饭店.
What does哪个 mean?
which.
Repeat the word for which.
Concentrate on the low tone.
哪个.
Repeat the question,
which hotel are you staying at?
你住在哪个饭店?
How do you say,
I'm staying at the picking hotel?
我住在北京饭店.
Try answering the next question.
Say that you're staying at the picking hotel.
你住在哪个饭店?
我住在北京饭店.
Again,
你住在哪个饭店?
我住在北京饭店.
What's the word for which?
哪个.
How do you ask,
which hotel are you staying at?
你住在哪个饭店?
The word,
哪个,which,
can also be used to ask about people.
Listen,
Miss Novak,
a Foreign Service Officer in Peking,
is talking with Kamran Zheng,
as they look at a photograph.
哪个人是美同志?
Kamran Zheng,
of course,
is pointing to Kamran Mei in the picture.
Repeat the word for that.
哪个.
The word that,
哪个 has a falling tone.
This difference in tones
is only thing which distinguishes
哪个,which from哪个,that.
Repeat that person.
哪个人.
Repeat that person is Kamran Mei.
哪个人是美同志?
Repeat the word for that.
哪个.
How do you say that person?
哪个人.
How do you say
that person is Kamran Mei?
哪个人是美同志?
Try responding to the next question.
Put out to her
that person is Kamran Mei.
哪个人是美同志?
那个人是美同志?
Again,哪个人是美同志?
那个人是美同志?
What's the word for which?
哪个.
What's the word for that?
哪个.
How do you say
which person?
哪个人?
How do you say
that person?
哪个人.
Now that you know
the word for that,
那个,you want
the word for this.
Listen.
你住在这个饭店吗?
不,我不住在
这个饭店.
Like the word
for that,
那个,the word
for this,
这个 has a falling tone.
Repeat this.
这个.
Repeat this hotel.
这个饭店.
Repeat.
No, I'm not staying
at this hotel.
不,我不住在这个饭店.
What's the word
for this?
这个.
Try answering the question.
Say that you're not
staying at this hotel.
你住在这个饭店吗?
不,我不住在这个饭店.
Again.
你住在这个饭店吗?
不,我不住在
这个饭店.
What's the word
for this?
这个.
What's the word
for that?
那个.
What's the word
for which?
哪个.
However, there is
a more polite way
to say that person
or which person.
Listen.
哪位是张同志?
那位是张同志.
Miss Novak
and Kamran Zheng
are looking
at the photograph again.
Repeat the polite
way to refer
to another person,
that one.
哪位.
Notice that no word
for person
is used
in the polite form
哪位.
Unlike the phrase
哪个人.
Repeat
that one
is Kamran Zhang.
哪位是张同志?
Try answering
the question now.
Say that
that one
is Kamran Zhang.
哪位是张同志?
Now repeat
the polite
way to ask
which person?
哪位.
Repeat
which person
is Kamran Zhang?
哪位是张同志?
Ask the question yourself now.
You'll get a confirmation
and a reply.
哪位是张同志?
Let's review the words
for this, that and which.
Translate the following
random sentences
from English into Chinese.
Which hotel is he staying at?
他住在哪个饭店?
He's staying at that hotel.
他住在哪个饭店?
He's staying at this hotel.
我住在这个饭店.
Which one is Kamran Mei?
哪位是梅同志?
Which hotel are you staying at?
你住在哪个饭店?
Which one is Kamran Mei?
哪位是梅同志?
Is he staying at this hotel?
他住在这个饭店吗?
He's not staying at this hotel.
他不住在这个饭店.
I'm not staying at that hotel.
我不住在那个饭店.
Which one is Kamran Mei?
哪位是梅同志?
Now let's turn to the topic
of greetings and polite expressions.
Let's imagine that Miss Novak
has just been introduced to Kamran Jiang,
a Chinese diplomatic official.
Listen.
将同志您早.
早?
若娃克女士您好.
The word 早 literally means to be early,
but it's used as a greeting for good morning.
Repeat good morning.
早.
If you're in a formal situation
and you want to be particularly polite,
you may add 您 to the greeting 早.
Repeat the formal good morning,
literally you're early.
您早.
Repeat good morning, Kamran Jiang.
将同志您早.
Unless you're with close friends,
the greeting 早
is usually used with the name
of the person you're addressing.
How do you say good morning, Kamran Jiang?
将同志您早.
Again.
将同志您早.
Now you start the conversation.
Say good morning to Kamran Jiang.
You'll get a confirmation and a reply.
将同志您早.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
Again.
将同志您早.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
Now listen to Miss Novak's reply.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
Repeat the word for very.
狠.
Although we translate 狠 as very,
actually it's not quite as strong as very.
I'm quite well might be closer.
Repeat I'm very well.
我很好.
This sentence is a good example of the rule that
the low tone changes to rising tone before another low tone.
Remember in the sentence I'm fine.
我 and好 became我好.
Now we find three syllables which originally have the low tone.
The first two syllables change to the rising tone before the third low tone syllable.
Repeat I'm very well again.
我很好.
How is abouting to come at Jiang's greeting?
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
Again.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
Now let's try the whole exchange.
First you greet come at Jiang,
then you reply to his greeting.
江同志您早.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
Try it again.
江同志您早.
早.
若瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
The conversation might continue like this.
Listen.
请问您是美国哪的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
Most of this exchange is already familiar to you.
The thing which is new is the name for San Francisco.
Repeat San Francisco.
旧金山.
This name is literally Old Gold Mountain.
Say San Francisco.
旧金山.
Repeat the sentence,
I'm from San Francisco, California.
我是加州旧金山人.
You'll notice that unlike in English,
you mentioned the larger area first,
then the smaller area.
Repeat,
I'm from San Francisco, California again.
我是加州旧金山人.
What's the word for California?
加州.
What's the word for San Francisco?
旧金山.
How do you say I'm from San Francisco, California?
我是加州旧金山人.
你是美国哪儿的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
你是美国哪儿的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
Let's listen to the whole exchange now.
江同志您早.
早,
洛瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
请问,
你是美国哪儿的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
Now you try it.
Take the part of Miss Novak.
Greed Karma at Jiang,
and then answer him.
江同志您早.
早,
洛瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
请问,
你是美国哪儿的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
Try it again.
江同志您早.
洛瓦克女士您好.
我很好.
请问,
你是美国哪儿的人?
我是加州旧金山人.
Now let's review what we've covered on this tape.
I'll give you some English sentences,
and you put them into Chinese.
They're arranged in exchanges.
Let's begin.
Number one.
May I ask,
where are you staying?
请问,
你住在哪儿?
I'm staying at the Peking Hotel.
我住在北京饭店.
Number two.
Which one has come at me?
哪位是美同志?
That one has come at me.
哪位是美同志?
Number three.
Are you staying at the Nationalities Hotel?
你住在民族饭店吗?
Yes,
I'm staying at the Nationalities Hotel.
是,
我住在民族饭店.
Number four.
Good morning, Comrade Jiang.
江同志,您早.
Good morning, Ms. Novak.
How are you?
早,
Norak女士,您好.
Number five.
Are you staying at this hotel?
你住在这个饭店吗?
No,
I'm not staying at this hotel.
不,
我不住在这个饭店.
Number six.
I'm from San Francisco, California.
我是加州旧金山人.
Number seven.
Good morning, how are you?
早,您好.
I'm very well.
我很好.
This is the end of the tape.
And a biographic information module,
unit one, production tape one.