Y: Perfect Chinese your way, in only five minutes a day. Welcome to Chinese Studio. I'm Yajie.
C: Good morning,I'm Cam. Well, we are almost at the end of the week. It's time for us to review what we've learned.
Y: Yeah.This week we mainly focused on numbers and some sentences related to numbers.Let's review.
Words and sentences in this week
First we learned 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10.And sentences:si kou ren,qi ben shu,and shi dian
Y: Cam do you still remember how to say the numbers from zero to ten in Chinese?
C: I sure do.They are 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (All in Chinese).
Y: Great! Again, 0 is l¨ªng, 1 is y¨©, 2 is ¨¨r, 3 is s¨¡n, 4 is s¨¬, 5 is w¨³, 6 is li¨´, 7 is q¨©, 8 is b¨¡, 9 is ji¨³, and 10 is sh¨ª. Let's do it again.
Y&C: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (in Chinese).
Y: Also during the week we learned that "kou" can be a measure word for people, and "ren" means people. So we can say "si kou ren". And "ben" is a measure word for books; "shu" means book. So "liu ben shu" means 6 books.? "dian" means o'clock, and "shi dian"means 10 '¡¯clock.
Words and sentences in this week
We also learned numbers from 11 to 100. 19 is sh¨ªji¨³, 47 is s¨¬sh¨ªq¨©, 82 is b¨¡sh¨ª¡¯¨¨r and 100 is y¨¬b¨£i. And also wo er shi wu sui, wo sanshi yi sui.
Y: Cam, remember how to read double figures in Chinese?
C: That's a bit complicated.
Y: Read the number on the ten's place first, add sh¨ª after that, and then? the number on the unit's place. For example:38 is s¨¡nsh¨ªb¨¡.
Y: 62 is li¨´sh¨ª¨¨r
C: 62 is li¨´sh¨ª¨¨r
Y: 95 is ji¨³sh¨ªw¨³.
C: ji¨³sh¨ªw¨³.
Y: Yeah. And if it is a number between 10 and 20 you can just say "shi" and then the number.11 is sh¨ªy¨©; 14 is sh¨ªs¨¬ and 17 is sh¨ªq¨©
C:sh¨ªy¨© sh¨ªs¨¬ sh¨ªq¨©. And 100 is¡
Y: y¨¬ b¨£¨«
C: y¨¬b¨£¨«
Y: We have another word which means year:sui
C: Right. Wo er shi ba sui.I'm 28 years old.
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