Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign welcome back to another episode of Han Yi Chinese Podcast. I'm Emily, your host today.
So this is the second episode of the HSK1 Masterclass.
In this episode, you will see something that is very useful, something that you will need to use right away when you arrive in China.
And that is how to introduce yourself. How do you say your name? Or how to ask someone's name.
So as always, let's start with the video first.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Ni hao. I'm Luai and today I'll give the lesson from Qintao. We will learn how to ask what is your name?
First of all, in Chinese, birds don't have any conjugation. We always use the infinitive form.
It is the context which tells who is doing the action or when is what's done.
For example, let's see the question what's your name?
Literally means you call what name?
Something else to keep in mind is that in Chinese we place the answer where the interrogative pronoun of the question was.
In this case, the answer would be.
Let's see the next question.
Just like the previous questions, the answer goes where the interrogative question was located.
This phrase is very useful because a family surname is very important to Chinese people.
An interesting detail is that the surname goes before the name. In this case, it would be Luo Lihua.
This is all for today. I say goodbye from Tsintao, where a popular bee is produced.
Next time you eat at a Chinese restaurant at Fura Qingdao Pizza. See you next time.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Very good.
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So let's do a little recap for what we have seen in the video.
So the first one, do you remember how to ask someone's name?
Very good.
And do you remember how to respond it?
Very good.
Emily.
Emily.
So that is, I'm called Emily.
And then how do we ask someone's surname?
Good.
And how do you respond it?
Very good.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Lin.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: Very good. And like we saw in the video, in Chinese culture, we put our surname in front of the name.
So for example, my name is Emily. Lin in Chinese would be Lin Emily.
So another extra tip, that is, if you want to say your full name together, you could either say Emily or if you want sound more formal, you can say Emily.
So that is to separate the surname and the name.
Very good.
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So that's it for today.
Thank you guys so much. We'll see you guys in the next episode.
Sa.
