Standard Chinese, a modular approach, Money Module Unit 2, Production Tape 1.
On the comprehension tape in this unit, you learn to understand sentences about purchasing things.
Before you learn how to say these things, let's review them.
Give an English equivalent for each of the following.
Number 1.
我想买点点心.
I'm thinking of buying some pastries.
Number 2.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
How much is this kind of small pastry a caddy?
Number 3.
八毛钱一斤.
Eighty cents a caddy.
Number 4.
请你给我两斤.
Please give me two caddies.
Number 5.
我还要汽水?
I'd like some soda, too.
Number 6.
多少钱一瓶?
How much is it a bottle?
Number 7.
两马五分钱.
It's twenty five cents.
Number 8.
这是三块钱.
Here's three dollars.
Number 9.
找你六马五分钱.
Here's sixty five cents change.
Number 10.
谢谢,再见.
Thank you, goodbye.
Number 11.
大苹果多少钱?
How much are the large apples?
The large apples.
Number 12.
大的四马五分钱一斤.
The large ones are forty five cents a caddy.
Number 13.
请给我三斤小的.
Please give me three caddies of the small ones.
Number 14.
好,三斤一块零五.
Certainly, three caddies are a dollar five.
Number 15.
您还要点什么?
What else would you like?
Number 16.
我不要什么了.
I don't want anything else.
If you had any problems with those sentences,
rewind the tape and work on them some more.
If you understand them all,
you can begin learning how to say them.
Listen.
我想买点点心.
Repeat the word for pastries or small cakes.
点心.
The word 点心 can also mean snacks or refreshments
in general as well as pastries.
Repeat I'd like to buy some pastries.
我想买点点心.
We've had the word 一点, a little,
which is made up of the number 一 and the counter 点.
In this sentence, we have the counter alone
and it's in its northern pronunciation 亚.
Repeat both versions after the speaker
and notice that the northern pronunciation
has a different vowel,
as well as having an R at the end instead of an N.
点点.
Use here 点点,means some.
Repeat I'm going to buy some pastries again.
我想买点点心.
What's the word for pastries?
点心.
How do you say I'm going to buy some pastries?
我想买点点心.
The conversation continues.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
The word 点心 covers a wide range of bakery goods.
Here it's modified by 小,
small to be more specific.
Repeat small pastries.
Notice that the low tone of 小
changes to rising tone before the low tone
of the following syllable.
小点心.
The Chinese unit of weight roughly
approximating our pound is a caddy.
Repeat one caddy.
Notice that the high tone of 一
changes to falling tone before the high tone
of 金.
一斤.
Repeat.
How much is this kind of small pastry?
这个小点心多少钱?
Notice that the counter 个 is used.
A special counter for pastries is not used here
because we're talking about kinds of pastries,
not pieces of pastry.
Repeat.
How much is this kind of small pastry?
A caddy.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
Notice that just as in English
we can say something is how much a pound.
In Chinese the word order is also often this way.
These pastries are how much a caddy.
Try asking the question yourself now.
This time you'll get a confirmation and a reply.
How much is this kind of small pastry a caddy?
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
Again.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
The answer, 80 cents a caddy
is literally eight dimes a caddy.
Repeat eight dimes.
八毛.
The PRC dollar is about half a US dollar.
For the rest of the tape,
assume that we're in the PRC using PRC money.
Repeat 80 cents a caddy.
Notice that the word for money occurs after the price.
八毛钱一斤.
Now you take the part of the shopkeeper.
Tell your customer that small pastries are 80 cents a caddy.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
Again.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
After finding out the price,
you might ask for some of the pastries.
Listen.
请你给我两斤.
Repeat the verb to give.
给.
Repeat.
Give me two caddies.
给我两斤.
Repeat the word used for please when you're making a request.
请.
Repeat.
Please literally ask you.
请你.
Notice the tone change of 请 before 你.
Repeat.
Please give me two caddies.
请你给我两斤.
Repeat.
Now you try from the start.
First ask how much these small pastries are caddies.
Then ask for two caddies.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
请你给我两斤.
这个小点心多少钱一斤?
八毛钱一斤.
请你给我两斤.
Let's say that pastries are the only things you want to buy.
Listen.
您还要点什么?
我还要汽水.
Repeat the verb to want.
要.
Repeat the word for soda literally air water.
汽水.
Repeat.
I want soda too.
我还要汽水.
汽水.
你还要点什么?
what do you still want?
but the attitude would not be right,
so we use the word too.
我还要汽水.
try responding to the question now.
您还要点什么?
我还要汽水。
您还要点什么?
我还要汽水。
after saying you want some soda, you want to ask how much it costs.
多少钱一瓶?
两毛五分钱。
repeat the word for bottle, it's a counter.
瓶。瓶。
repeat one bottle.
notice that the high tone of e changes here.
一瓶。一瓶。
now you've seen what happens to the number one, e, when followed by a syllable in each of the four tones.
E has the falling tone when followed by any syllable except one with another falling tone.
Then it has the rising tone. Listen.
一瓶。一瓶.一瓶。一瓶。
Now you repeat.One caddy one bottle one volume one copy.
一斤一瓶一本一份
多少钱一瓶 多少钱一瓶 两百五分钱
多少钱一瓶 两百五分钱
分
两百五分钱
多少钱一瓶 两百五分钱
两百五分钱
三百五分钱
再见
谢谢
再见
三百五分钱
再见
三百五分钱
大苹果多少钱
苹果
大
大苹果多少钱
小的多少钱一斤
三百五分钱
小的多少钱一斤
三百五大苹果多少钱一斤
三百五啊
三百五
現在你已經介紹了, 用來使用, 用來使用, 讓我們來練習
把中國的價錢放在最後的數字上, 讓我們來學習
那就是, 哪個數字有更多的數字是有的
一塊錢
一塊五
八毛錢
四毛五
六塊錢
六塊五
五分錢
現在我們回到食物館, 討論繼續
請給我三斤那個小的
好, 三斤一塊零五
重複, 給我三斤小的
給我三斤小的
重複, 給我三斤那個小的
给我三斤那个小的。
notice that the number and counter 三斤 are separated from 小的 by the specified neg.
This word order is similar to that of English, three caddies of those small ones.
repeat, please give me three caddies of those small ones.
请给我三斤那个小的。
notice that the word you,你, is left out here.
try asking the question yourself now, you'll get a reply.
please give me three caddies of those small ones.
请给我三斤那个小的。
好,三斤一块零五。
again
请给我三斤那个小的。
好,三斤一块零五。
let's listen to the shopkeeper's last line again.
好,三斤一块零五。
the answer, three caddies are a dollar five is literally three caddies one dollar zero five.
the word 零 zero marks the dime or miles lot.
repeat the word for zero.
零,零
repeat a dollar five.
一块零五。
notice that here again the last counter fun and the word money are dropped.
repeat three caddies are a dollar five.
三斤一块零五。
try responding to the customer yourself now.
when he asked for three caddies, tell him that it will be a dollar five.
请你给我三斤小的。
好,三斤一块零五。
again
请你给我三斤小的。
好,三斤一块零五。
now listen to the last part of the conversation at the fruit stand.
您还要什么?
我不要什么了。
in this exchange the word 什么 is used in two ways.
first in the question it's used as a question word asking what.
then in the answer it's used as an indefinite pronoun meaning anything or any.
when used to mean anything 什么 is toneless.
repeat I don't want anything else.
我不要什么了。
I don't want anything else.
the marker 了 is used to indicate a new situation.
you use it here because earlier you did want some things and now you don't.
it's indicated in the translation by the word else.
I don't want anything else.
try saying it ahead of the speaker.
I don't want anything else.
我不要什么了。
now try responding to the question.
say that you don't want anything else.
您还要点什么?
我不要什么了。
how do you say I don't want anything else?
我不要什么了。
to review what's been covered on this tape try putting the following sentences into Chinese.
number one.I'd like to buy some pastries.
我想买点点心.
how much is this kind of small pastry?
这个小点心多少钱?
please give me two caddies.
请你给我两斤.
I'd like some soda too.
我还要汽水.
how much is it a bottle?
多少钱一瓶?
please give me three bottles.
请你给我三瓶.
here's two dollars.
这是两块钱.
number two.how much are the large apples?
大苹果多少钱?
how much caddy are the small ones?
小的多少钱一斤?
please give me three caddies of the small ones.
请给我三斤小的。
number three.I don't want anything else.
我不要什么了。
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