Standard Chinese, a modular approach, transportation module unit 3, production tape 1.
On the comprehension tape in this unit, you learn to understand a number of sentences used when taking taxis.
If you feel that you might be rusty on the meaning of these sentences, go back to the end of the C1 tape and review the target list sentences.
If you feel that you understand them all, you should begin learning how to say them.
Listen to this first exchange which takes place on a Taipei street corner.
Ai, 計程車。
你到哪里?
到火车站。
Repeat the word for taxi.
計程車。
Repeat, hey taxi.
Ai, 計程車。
Now repeat train station.
火車站。
Repeat to the train station.
到火車站。
Now you take part in the conversation.
Go to the train station.
Ai, 計程車。
到哪里?
到火車站。
Again.
Ai, 計程車。
到哪里?
到火車站。
Once in the taxi, the rider has some comments. Listen.
你開得太快了。
Repeat the verb to drive.
開。
Repeat the adjectival verb to be fast.
快。
Repeat drive quickly.
開得快。
This is the way to describe the manner of an action in a statement or question.
Add the marker d to the action verb, such as 開, then follow it with an adjectival verb such as 快.
Repeat, you're driving too fast.
你開得太快了。
Notice the use of the marker l for new situation.
It's used to show that the driving has become too fast.
How do you say you're driving too fast?
你開得太快了。
With the formula of an action verb, marker d, an adjectival verb,
you can use many words you've already learned to describe the manner of an action.
For instance, the word you learned for good morning also means early.
Repeat early.
早。
Now repeat came early.
來得早。
Repeat didn't come early.
來得不早。
Notice how these manner phrases are negated.
The negative marker 不 goes before the adjectival verb, not the action verb.
How would you say came early?
來得早。
How would you say didn't come early?
來得不早。
Now repeat this sentence.
He sells apples cheaply.
蘋果他賣得很便宜。
There are two things to take note of in this sentence.
First, the object is moved up front in the topic position in sentences describing manner.
Second, a modifying word such as 恒 may come before the adjectival verb.
Repeat again.
He sells apples cheaply.
蘋果他賣得很便宜。
How would you say he doesn't sell things cheaply?
他賣得不便宜。
How would you say he came early yesterday?
他昨天來得早。
How do you say he didn't come early today?
他今天來得不早。
Now repeat.
He drives too fast.
他開車開得太快。
In a complete sentence describing manner,
the entire action is said as the topic,
which is followed by the main verb stating the manner.
Repeat again.
他開車開得太快。
Try saying it ahead of the speaker.
He drives too fast.
他開車開得太快。
Again.
他開車開得太快。
Now let's return to the taxi.
The passenger continues.
我們有時間,來得及。
Repeat the word for time.
時間。
Repeat.
We have time.
我們有時間。
Now repeat the idiom.
Can make it in time.
來得及。
Repeat.
We have time.
We can make it in time.
我們有時間,來得及。
How do you say,
We have time.
We can make it in time.
我們有時間,來得及。
Let's review some of the vocabulary you've learned so far in this tape.
What's the word for taxi?
計程車。
What's the word for train station?
火車站。
開。
What's the word for to be fast?
快。
And what's the idiom for can make it in time?
來得及。
Now listen to this request.
請慢一點開。
We have to repeat the adjective verb to be slow.
慢。
Another way to describe manner in Chinese
is to have an adjective verb such as 慢
and the word 一點 come before the action verb.
Repeat.
Drive a little more slowly.
慢一點開。
请慢一点开。
请你在前边那个银行停一下。
请慢一点开。