Unit 7
Part I: Listen and Learn 3
Click on the speaker icon of the
following sentences and listen to the recording. The Chinese characters
are in big5 format.
-
John, n
Zh
nggu
hu
shu
de h
n
h
o.
John, you speak Chinese very well.
John, 你中國話說得很好。
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N
l
, b
x
ng, b
x
ng.
Oh, no, not well yet.
哪裡﹐不行不行。
W
xi
nz
i
z
i xu
Zh
ngw
n.
I am learning Chinese now.
我現在在學中文。
-
N
ju
de Zh
ngw
n
n
n bu n
n?
Do you think that Chinese is difficult
or not?
你覺得中文難不難﹖
-
W
ju
de k
uy
b
t
i n
n,
xi
z
b
ji
o
n
n.
I feel that spoken Chinese is not
that difficult. Writing charcaters is relatively difficult.
我覺得中文口語不太難﹐寫字比較難。
-
N
h
i hu
shu
sh
nme w
iy
?
What other foreign language can
you speak?
你還會說什麼外語﹖
-
W
h
i hu
shu
F
y
.
I can also speak French.
我還會說法語。
-
F
y
n
n
bu n
n?
Is French difficult?
法語難不難﹖
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B
t
i n
n,
m
iyou Zh
ngw
n
n
n.
Not really, not as difficult as
Chinese.
不太難﹐沒有中文難。
Notes:
-
'b
x
ng'
is a response to the compliment. It means 'no, it doesn't work' literally.
Actually it is a humble response to 'shu
de
h
n h
o'.
-
'm
iyou
Zh
ngw
n n
n'
means 'not that difficult compared to Chinese'.
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