Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Welcome back to Hanyi Chinese Podcast. This is the seventh episode of our HSK1 masterclass.
So welcome.
Today we're gonna teach you something useful that you might use when you're meeting new people, meeting new Chinese people and knowing people in China in general.
So that is the sentence.
So we're going to talk about family.
Why so? Because in our culture it's common that we also know a little bit about the background of the people that we meet.
So we often ask people that. How many people are there in your family?
So that's what we're going to see today.
And later on, we're also going to talk about how to introduce yourself by ages. How to say your age, for example, I'm 30 years old. How do you say this in Chinese? And also how to ask people about their age.
Okay, so let's dive into it like always. Let's start with the video first.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Hello, everyone, I'm Nyao and today I'm teaching this lesson from Harbin. We'll talk about family.
Chinese culture values family a lot. Asking how many members are in your family is a very common question.
Let's get into it.
The word person needs a special classifier. When used in the family context, we could use the one we already know, but generally we use ko, which literally means mouth. It makes sense, doesn't it?
One mouth per person in the family.
Second, to ask how many, we need the question particle T.
This question particle is used only when the spectre number is less than 10.
Third, to have the birth yawn.
When we talk about how many people are in a household, we say how many people has your house?
We are now ready to ask how many members are in your family.
The sentence will go like house.
Have how many classifier person?
Did you notice before? Person? We must put the correct classifier.
How?
How do we answer this question?
Very easy. Replacing the question particle with the number of people in this question, which is the question particle.
Very good.
Now let's say as an example that there are four of us in our family.
Perfect.
In Chinese culture, asking pupils aid is quite common.
So let's learn how to ask it.
There are two ways to ask. One for children and another for the rest of the people.
To ask kids, you must use the name.
To ask kids, you must use the same question particle as before.
We just need to know how to say age.
The question is really easy. You how much ate?
We must only add the particle.
This particle indicates a completed action.
We use it because it's understood that you have already completed the eight you shouldn't eat have.
The correct question would be mi zi zuela.
Then in order to answer, you simply must replace the question particle. In this case, T for the number of years.
Notice that there's no need to use any birth.
Let's say you are 8 years old.
How will you answer the question?
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Ne.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: Give it a try.
To ask adult the age, we say N means how many and T means big.
It's as if you were asking how big are you?
To answer, it's the same as with children.
Suppose you are 45 years old, how would you answer the question?
Mi tuo tal wa.
Good job.
I say goodbye. From Harbin, the city of ice, where the snow and ice sculptures festival takes place since 1963.
Harbin's Festival was awarded the Guinness Record in 2007 for the world's largest snow sculpture. 656ft long in a volume of 1200,000 cubic feet. Impressive. See you soon.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: Okay, very good. So impressive, impressive information from Harbin, right?
So, okay, let's do a little bit of recap, shall we?
So what have we learned? What have we learned during the video?
Did you remember how can we ask about.
About ages? About how many people are there in your family?
Okay, that's right. Let's go.
How do you say how many people are there in your.
Very good.
And then how do we answer this?
So remember to take the outside the sentence and then put whatever your answer is in this position so the structure does not change.
Okay, so for example, I have five people in my family, so I could say very good. And then how do you ask about your age?
Very good.
Or okay, so then how do we answer this?
For example, I'm three years old.
Good job.
Okay, and also, if you are over 10 years old, you still use this structure to answer the question. For example, I'm 20 years old.
Okay, so now it's time for you to practice.
I hope that we can try something.
Try something. Try to ask and answer about your family or the age in the comment section down below. And of course, more importantly, please try this. Try to practice this with your friends, your family or anyone. Any Chinese that you meet on the street, perhaps.
So please also write us a sentence down in the comment section down below to try how to say about your family or the age. Okay, very good. And so last but not least, as always, thank you guys so much for staying until the end of this episode.
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