FSI-Chinese/Temp/FSI-Chinese/8-ref-6.csv

1.	A:	"Hànytt hàn fttzá, xuéqilai
dàgài hSn nín?!"	"Chinese is very complicated-. It
must be very difficult to study?’."
	B:	"Fàngxīn ba! W8 xiāngxìn
nl kéyi xuéde hen hào."	"Don’t worry! I’m convinced you
can learn it very well."
2.	A:	"ZhōngdSngde Yīsllánjiào he
Xīnjiāngde Yisllánjiào
shì bu shi h?n bù yíyàng?"	"Is the Islam of the Middle East
very different from the Islam
of Xinjiang?"
	B:	"Zhèi shi yíge xiāngdāng
fǔzáde wèntí, wímen kéyi
tàolùn tàolùn."	"This is a very difficult question.
We can discuss it."
3.	A:	"Xinjiang he nèidì shi
shénme shíhou tSngylde?"	"When was Xinjiang united with the
interior?"
	B:	"Ng...dìyīcì tSngyl chàbuduó
shi gSngyuán qián liùshí-
niànde shíhou."	"Uh...the first time they were
unified was in about 60 B.C."
U.	A:	"Jiàfàng Zhànzhēngde shíhou,
Jièfàngjūn Jiefàngle
Xinjiang, shì bu shi?"	"During the War of Liberation,
the PLA liberated Xinjiang,
right?"
	B:	"Xinjiang shi hépíng Jièfàng-
de, Jiàfàngjǔn shi sìjiù-
nián dào Xinjiang qùde."	"Xinjiang was peacefully liberated.
The PLA went to Xinjiang in
191*9.’"
5.	A:	"Wúge zìzhìqǔde shénghuó
qíngkuàng he nèidì chà
hén duo ma?"	"Are living conditions in the five
autonomous regions very different
from those in the interior?"
	B:	"Ng, zhǔyào shi JiaotSng bù.
fāngbiàn. Biéde shēnghuó
fǎngmian me, y? chà
yidiànr."	"Well, it’s mainly that transporta-
tion is difficult. As for other
aspects of daily life, they’re
somewhat below standard too."
6.	A:	"Tāmen shi dào Shànghài qù
chū chai ma?"	"Did they go to Shànghài on
business?"
	B:	"Bù, bú shi fang jià le ma?
YSude gànbude Jià zài
Shànghài, tāmen huí Jià
qù kànkan."	"No. We’re on vacation now,
remember? Some of the cadres’
families are in Shànghài, so
they went home to visit."
*The tapes for this unit incorrectly give the date as 1950. The PLA
"entered Xinjiang in October 191*9, and the whole province was ""liberated"""
by April 1950.
7. A:	"Tz! Zhèitiáo dìtàn zhēn
mèi.* Shi Wéiwúěr dìtàn ma?"	"Ah! This carpet is Just beauti-
ful! Is it a Uygur carpet?"
B:	"Shi. Jiù shl zài nī zuotiān
canguānde nèige gōngchàng
zuòde."	"Yes. It was made in the factory
you visited yesterday."
8. A:	"Nl kàn, tiān gang liàng,
Wéiwúěr nōngmín Jiu kāishi
gōngzuò le."	"Look, it Just got light and the
Uygur peasants have already
started to work."
B:	"Gèzú rénmín dōu zài dà gSo
shèhuizhǔyì ma!"	"Sure, the people of all national-
ities are going all out with
socialism!"
9. A:	"Tīngshuō Jìwèi gōngren Jiáo
gěi zhèngfǔ Jìběn hen lǎode
shū, nlmen kànguo le ma?"	"I hear that some workers handed a
few very old books over to the
government. Have you seen them?"
B:	"Kànguo le. Dōu shi guānyú
zhōngzú wèntí, lìshì
wentide, hen yōu yìsi."	"Yes. They’re about racial and
historical problems. They’re
very interesting."
10. A:	"Zhèige dìqúde xùmuyè name
fádà!"	"Thi*s- region’s livestock farming
is so well developed!"
B:	"Suōyi wōmen zài zhèr bànle
hàojlge dìt&nch&ng."	"That’s why we’ve set up a lot of
carpet factories here."
11. A:	"Nīmende wénzì name nán!
G&o wénhuà Jiáoliú duō bù
rongyi."	"Your system of writing is so hard!
It makes cultural exchange so
difficult!"
B:	"Shéi shuōde, wōmende wénzì
bú shi zài g&i ma? Yuè
g&i yuè Jiàndǎn ma!"	"Says who! Aren’t we changing
our writing? The more we
change it the simpler it is."
"ADDITIONAL REQUIRED VOCABULARY
(not presented on tape)"	
12. biānjiàng	"border area; borderland; frontier;
frontier region"