Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign hello, everyone.
Huan Ying Da Jia. Welcome. I'm Emily, and this is Hanyu Chinese Podcast.
This is the first episode of HSK1 Masterclass.
So, in this series of podcasts, we will be learning basic Chinese, starting From the level HSK1.
If you're interested in the Chinese culture or the Chinese language, this is gonna be the perfect podcast for you.
So for this podcast, we will be learning some basic pronouns, like a, you, ta, he, or she.
So if you're interested, please stay tuned and stay till the end of this video, because until the end, you will be learning some basic greetings, like hello and how are you?
So first, we prepared a short video.
Let's watch it together.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Hi, everyone. I'm Alex. Today I'm giving the class from the Great Wall of China in Beijing.
In this class, we will talk about personal pronouns and how to greet others and ask, how are you?
Let's start with personal pronouns.
First, we have I, which in Chinese is you. In Chinese is n, and he or she is.
How do we say these in plural? Quite easy. We just have to add the particle men to each personal pronoun.
So how do we say then we, you, and they, woman, Niemen, tamen.
Simple, right?
Something to remember is that in Chinese, nouns and adjectives don't have a plural form. For example, in Chinese, cat is Mao, but we cannot say Maomen.
Instead, it is through the context that we will know if it's only one cat or more than one.
Now we will learn how to greet in Chinese. Perhaps you are familiar with the expression ni hao, which means hello.
Ni hao literally means you okay, but it is used to say hello or greet someone.
And then when we say nim N hau, we are actually saying, hello, everyone.
If we add the particle ma, we transform an affirmative phrase into an interrogative one.
So when we add ma to ni hao will be asking you okay?
Which means are you okay or how are you?
Another way to ask, how are you? Is.
But it is more frequently used with people close to you, those who you know better.
And how do we reply to these questions? Well, there are three ways to answer. The first would be which means very well. The second is meaning good enough.
And the third is ma, ma hu, which means so. So this expression comes from a Chinese proverb that literally means horse. Horse, Tiger. Tiger.
So this has been. Today's class is time to say goodbye. The Great Wall was 21,000km long at one point. But can it be seen from space?
See you next time.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Okay, thank you. Alex.
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Okay, let's do a recap. Did you guys remember what we have seen in the video?
So first of all, it's or she. It can be both.
So the Chinese character you cannot in the Chinese one you cannot really understand if it's a boy or girl through hearing the difference is only through the characters.
Okay, so how about greetings, Ni hao. Very good.
Ni hao. Hello.
And then I had to say hello, how are you?
Did you get it correct?
So also the response we have very good and we have not so bad, pretty good.
And the last mama.
So that means like pretty.
It's okay, it's okay. Not too bad. But it's like in the middle.
So these are the sentences that we have learned today.
So please, if you guys enjoy the episode and you guys want to know more about it or to practice more, feel free to leave us a comment down below.
Try to use the sentence that we have learned today. For example how to say hello, how are you?
So leave us a comment or if you have any questions, feel free to ask us anything about it. We will be very happy to see them and respond them.
So at last we want to tell we have a really special.
We have a really special event right now is that if you go to our website hanyu chinese school.com you can have a free child class.
This is the first class. The first Chinese class is all for free.
So if you're interested in knowing how to learn more, to have a one on one Chinese teacher, local Chinese teacher that teaches you, please go to our website.
We will have everything on it. And yeah, welcome. I hope to see you guys there. So see you guys next time.
Bye.
Sam.
