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21 Parent-teacher conference 家长会

Hi everyone 欢迎大家收看成长汉语. Welcome back to another episode of Growing up with Chinese. We hope that through the eyes of Mike and 小明, our favorite high school students, you all are getting a good foundation in basic Chinese, and having fun in the process.

Now last time we heard a good recap*1 of Mike and 小明’s day at school, they certainly seemed to be happy that was finally over. So what does the rest of their day have in store*2 for them? Well, let’s check in with them, and find out.

*1:recap/recapitulate 要約

*2:have in store 待ち構える

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20 Homework and courses 作业和课程

Hi everybody, welcome back to another episode of 成长汉语, Growing up with Chinese.

Now seen as a lot of you’re still in school, and for those of you who want, life is one big school, isn’t it? Anyway, it seems appropriate to have one of our shows focus on school, as well as all the vocabulary that comes with this territory.

Now the last time we saw Mike and 小明, they had just arrived late to class. Last show, 兰兰 was deep in discussion with her classmates on the topic of pets. So how did their day end up? Did their bad luck streak*1 finally come to an end? Let’s go check it out.

*1:streak 続けざまに経験する

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19 Talking about pets 谈宠物

Hi, 你们好. It’s great to see all of you for another episode of Growing up with Chinese 成长汉语. In this show, you all get the chance to learn simple but very useful Chinese through the adventures of Mike, 小明 and their friends.

Now have you all recovered from our discussion of 把 from last show? 你们是不是把它给忘了? Did you take it and forget it? If you did, don’t worry about it. We aren’t going to bring it up again today though, it’s blissfully*1 absent from today’s dialogue. In fact we thought it might be fun to go easy on*2 all of you this time.

Our topic is pets. I love animals. And apparently, so do 兰兰 and her classmates. So, let’s check it out the dialogue for today and I promise what we’re going to be covering will be very easy. Let’s check it out.

*1:blissfully ありがたいことに

*2:go easy on 優しくあたる

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18 Apologizing 致歉

今回のSpotlightは盛りだくさんです。


Hello everyone. 欢迎收看成长汉语. Thanks for tuning into today’s Growing up with Chinese. We’ve got a great show lined up for you today.

First though I have a question. Take a minute to think of all the ways we apologize in English. There is a lot isn’t there. I’m sorry, my fault, I apologize, excuse me, forgive me, my bad, the list goes on and on which implies that we apologize a lot in English don’t we. Well in China there are a couple ways to communicate an apology. However, there are nearly as many forms of I’m sorry as there are in English, interesting isn’t it. It’s not that Chinese speakers don’t feel remorse as much as English speakers, after all, we all are human beings.

Now I’ll leave it is food for thought for now because we need to get into today’s dialogue clip. Now unfortunately, 小明 has a lot of apologizing to do the day. Let’s check out just exactly what’s going on.

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17 Transportation

今回も公式な中国語タイトルはありませんが、「交通」でしょうか。Mikeが学校に行くシーンがあるのは何気に初めてです。


大家好, it’s time for another episode of Growing up with Chinese. 欢迎收看今天的成长汉语. Thanks for joining us today.

Last time we talked about making phone calls in Chinese. Today we are going to be focusing on transportation.

Now in the United States along with many other countries, when kids live too far away from school, they have the options of taking a school bus. And most public schools in China do not offer this service. But that’s mostly because China has quite a developed public transportation system.

Take 北京 for example. There’s the subway, public buses, taxis there’re even bike lanes on most every road so that people can bike virtually anywhere.

So today, 小明 and Mike are making their way to school. Let’s see how that evolves.

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16 Making a phone call

公式に中国語タイトルがありませんが、たぶん「打电话」です。


Hello everyone, 欢迎收看成长汉语. Welcome to today’s episode of Growing up with Chinese.

Now I have a question to ask all of you before we get into today’s material.

In your native language, what is the first thing you typically say when you answer the phone? In English, we might say “hello?” Or we might say “Charlotte speaking?” or “this is Charlotte,” depending on the circumstance. But most of the time “hello” is the first thing we say.

Now Chinese uses the word specific to answer in the phone and that is “喂?” People might say 喂 or 喂你好 but at the very least 喂 is always used. And sometimes the person making the phone call will respond with 喂 something something something. Cool no?

Now I bring this up because the topic of today’s show is making a phone call. So let’s head over to 小明’s apartment and see who is calling who and just exactly what’s going on. Shall we?

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15 Buying fruits 买水果

大家好, 欢迎收看成长汉语. Hi everyone, it’s time for another episode of Growing up with Chinese.

Now I was seven when I started learning Chinese so there was a lot about the process that I don’t remember very well. But one thing I do remember is setting up a little food shop at home for Chinese class one day, at the vocabulary for buying things. My sister and I took turns running the shop buying and selling bananas and apples all kinds of fruits. It was a lot of fun. And all this buying and selling vocabulary and phrases are very useful to know. After all, China is a shopper’s paradise.

Now I bring this up now because today we are following Mike and 小明 to the neighborhood fruit vendor. Now if you all remember, 小明’s mom last time told 小明 to buy some fruits while he was out. So, let’s take a look and see how buying and selling is done in Chinese.

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14 Directions 方位

今回はかなり大変だった覚えがあります。


大家好, 欢迎收看成长汉语. Thanks for tuning into another episode of Growing up with Chinese.

Are you all ready to get down*1 to work today? We are going to let our discussion of tenses in Chinese rest for a little while. They will be coming up in our dialogues as we go along, so extra practice won’t be an issue.

Today our focus is going to be directions. Now it can be quite interesting to look at how different cultures use directional vocabulary. In America, we use left and right a lot. In China, north, south, east and west are used equally as much. 北京’s layout is quite square. So it’s never hard to get your directional bearings*2 here. And same goes for many other Chinese cities.

Now let’s dive into today’s clip. And continue our discussion of directional vocabulary in just a minute. Let’s go.

*1:get down 始める、本気で取りかかる

*2: (directional) bearing 方向感覚

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13 Breakfast 早餐

大家好. It’s great to see you all again here on Growing up with Chinese 成长汉语. 欢迎收看. Thanks for tuning in.

Last time we covered present tense in Chinese. And I hope that you didn’t feel like it was too hard. Between 在, 正在 and 正 we pretty much covered all the present tense basis.

Today our topic is past tense. And trust me, it’s essentially as easy as present tense. And nowhere near*1 as difficult as English past tense. We’ll be learning past tense with the help of 小明’s mom and Mike who finally decided to wake up. Now today’s vocabulary will be focusing on morning activities like breakfast and getting ready to go out. So let’s check out what’s going on.

*1:nowhere near 〜とは段違いだ

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12 Playing American football 打橄榄球

(前回の続き)家を出て、独りアメフトの練習をする小明のところに兰兰が通りかかります。


大家好, thanks for tuning into today’s Growing up with Chinese. 欢迎收看今天的成长汉语.

Today is the twelfth show of our series. And I have to say, we’ve covered quite a bit of ground in such a short time. Do you all feel your Chinese getting better? Our vocabulary database is certainly growing that’s for sure.

Now today we have some fun vocabulary lined up for you all. But more importantly, we’re going to be discussing how to speak in present tense in Chinese. Now, I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear the word “tense” in relation to language, my whole body gets tense*1. But, I’ve got some good news for everyone else out there whose feeling tense along with me. Tenses in Chinese are really quite straightforward and relatively uncomplicated. If English and Chinese were running a tenses race, Chinese would outrun English by about ten laps. Now, are you all convinced yet? Don’t worry if you are still a little bit skeptical. Let’s take a look at today’s dialogue and you’ll see what I mean.

*1:tense(時制)とtense(緊張)のシャレなわけですね

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11 Getting out of bed 起床

今回から新出単語に拼音がついています。ありがたいことです。


大家好, 欢迎收看今天的成长汉语. Welcome to today’s episode of Growing up with Chinese.

今天星期几? Yes, I just asked to you what day of the week it is. Although I bet your answers are all different because depending on where you live in the world, it could be yesterday, today or tomorrow. So, a better question would be 现在几点? What time is it? And of course, it’s time for us to begin.

Now today’s content is quite relaxing because it follows under the topic of leisure time. And it’s so nice when you have time to do things that you might not normally get to do. Like read a book, play video games, sleeping or whatever else might relax you. Now today 小明 and Mike are looking at a nice chunk of leisure time. But what will they do with it? Let’s check it out.

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10 Dates 日期

冒頭でCharlotte MacInnisが言っていることはepisode 18 “Apologizing”と同じです。何かの手違いがあったように思われます。


Hello everyone. 欢迎收看成长汉语. Thanks for tuning into today’s Growing up with Chinese. We’ve got a great show lined up for you today.

First though I have a question. Take a minute to think of all the ways we apologize in English. There is a lot isn’t there. I’m sorry, my fault, I apologize, excuse me, forgive me, my bad, the list goes on and on which implies that we apologize a lot in English don’t we. Well in China there are a couple ways to communicate an apology. However, there are nearly as many forms of I’m sorry as there are in English, interesting isn’t it. It’s not that*1 Chinese speakers don’t feel remorse*2 as much as English speakers, after all, we all are human beings.

Now I’ll leave it is food for thought*3 for now because we need to get into today’s dialogue clip. Now unfortunately, 小明 has a lot of apologizing to do the day. Let’s check out just exactly what’s going on.

*1:not that 〜というわけでもない

*2:remorse 自責の念

*3:food for thought 思考の糧、考えるべきこと

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9 Family 家庭

大家好, welcome back to 成长汉语 Growing up with Chinese. Our series go with to help all of you learn some very useful and basic Chinese.

Now today we’ll be going over the second part of the clip we saw last time. So it will be part of review, part of new phrases. Now do you all remember your dining vocabulary. Did you practice your chopsticks ability? 你们会用筷子吗? Can you all use chopsticks now? I certainly hope so. Anyway, chopsticks ability isn’t that necessary for speaking Chinese. So don’t worry about it. Let’s check out today’s clip.

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