Episode Transcript
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to our HSK1 master podcast. I'm your host today, Emily.
And do you guys know what episode are we on today?
Yes, is the 13th. That means we are halfway through our HSK One Lesson journey.
Good job, everyone.
So for today, we are going to learn about the movements and directions in Chinese. So we're going to use the words like and, which is a little bit complicated for learners at first.
And then we are going to learn about how to say no in Chinese.
Of course we know the word already, but what about the other word, mei?
So these are structures that are very useful for our daily conversation, like always. Let's get to it.
Let's get started with the quick video first.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Hello, I'm Loy. And today we will do the lesson in jaiko.
Today we will learn what directional verbs are.
In a previous class we learned the verb hui, which means to return.
The verb hui is a verb that requires a direct complement or a direction complement. In the last lesson we used the direct complement. Do you remember?
Yes.
We learned how to say return home.
What about direction complements?
There are two of them.
The first is tu. That also means to go.
We use it when the subject does an action in a direction that the speaker is not.
The second direction complements its like and its mean to come.
We use it when the subject does an action toward the speaker.
For example, imagine. Imagine you live in Italy and you're speaking with your family who lives in China.
How would you say to them, I go back to China.
Very good.
However, if you want to say that a family member is coming to Italy where you are located, how would you say that?
Thus, if you hear the phrase, how would you translate it?
Does your daughter come back tomorrow?
But come back where?
To where the speaker is located.
Since we said we were in Italy, it means she would be returning to Italy.
Very good. This has been.
In Chinese so far. We learned a negative adverb.
But today we will learn one more way to deny a verb.
That's me.
There are many rules and explanations about differences between pu and mei. But the big difference is that is used to deny impression of future. Ten tenses whether may is used to deny the past.
But there are some explanations since there are verbs that are used whether in the past or present. And the same applies to may verbs that always go with bu. Some are hui. Can also means can to like to know. And there's a birth that always goes with me. The birth you.
Earlier we asked the question, this is a phrase that's in the campus Dialogue on this same lesson.
And the answer is which means no, she doesn't have time.
The first instance use bu because it's a present of future action.
In the second, we use may because it's followed by the verb to have.
As mentioned, you always goes with may I say goodbye from China's paradise.
As you can see, China is full of credible people faces.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Okay, very nice. So do you guys like. Did you guys like the video?
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Okay, what did you. What did we learn from the video?
At first we learned about the verb or means returning, but from where? No. So literally means to come back.
Hui qu, it's going back, go back.
Of course, you could always put with the places directly. So going back to the house, going back to the school.
So the most important key point that we have here is that Wei Lai towards the speaker, Hui chu away from the speaker. So the most important that when you decide what verb you are using, it depends the speaker yourself.
Okay, so if we say and I come back, I go back.
Okay, and then we have the second important word that we learned is mei.
So what's the difference between and mei?
So like we explained in the video, is used for present future. It has a more strong vibe. Saying something that you won't do in the future or probably we will never ever. For example, if I say.
I don't eat rice, like at all. Or if I say I don't eat meat, I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat meat at all. So gives out a stronger vibe. And then when we say mei, which we normally use it for something we didn't do, we haven't do in the past tense.
So if I say I didn't have rice, so I will still probably have it later on tomorrow whatsoever.
Okay, so let's take a look. If I say.
What does that mean?
Very nice.
So I'm not going back.
If I say.
I didn't go back, Very nice. Okay, so let's take a look. How would you say let's do a little practice. How would you say that this morning I didn't go back to the school?
How would you say that? This is a little bit of the homework.
So take your time, think about it. How would you say it in Chinese and write it down in the comment section down below so we can correct it together. Okay, so that's it for today, like always. If you guys like our lesson, please check out our website, www.hanyechineschool.com we have a lot of great contents for learning Chinese.
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So if you really want to improve Chinese, please take a look in our website. It will certainly help you a lot. Okay, so we will see you the next class. Okay, thank you guys.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: Sa.
