Qǐnɡwèn nǐ shì Wánɡ Hàomínɡ mɑ？请问你是王浩明吗？ Is this Wang Haoming speaking?

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Mandarin Chinese 2: Chinese for Beginners

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mandarin Chinese 2: Chinese for Beginners

60 ratings

Course 2 of 4 in the Specialization Learn Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese 2: Chinese for beginners is a beginner's course of Mandarin Chinese in continuation of Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for beginners. It uses lectures, short plays, interactive exercises and cultural tips to help learners build a fundamental capability of oral Chinese in real-life situations. At the end of the 5-lesson course, the learners will reach the following proficiency: ♦ 300 words ♦ 40 language points ♦ handling 10 real-life situations Completing "Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for beginners" or having attended Chinese courses of any types for at least 15 hours is the prerequisite.

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Lesson 8 Nǐ zhǎo wǒ yǒu shénme shì? 你找我有什么事？ What's up? Part 1

Learning how to make phone calls; Learning how to make an appointment

Qǐnɡwèn nǐ shì Wánɡ Hàomínɡ mɑ？请问你是王浩明吗？ Is this Wang Haoming speaking?7:54

Meet the Instructors

Wang Jun
Associate Professor
School of Humanities
An Na
Ph.D., Lecturer
School of Humanities, SJTU

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>> Hello, everyone.

Welcome to join today's Hello Chinese.

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I have a question to ask you,

what is the first word you use to answer the phone in your native language?

Chinese use the word wei to answer the phone.

People might say, wei or wei, ni hao.

The person making the phone call would also respond with wei.

I bring this up, because the topic of today's clip is making a phone call.

If you make a phone call to Wang Haomin, you can ask.

Qing wen ni shi Wang Haoming ma?

Qing wen ni shi Wang Haoming ma?

Is this Wang Haoming speaking?

If Wang Haoming doesn't know who is speaking, he can ask.

Nin shi na wei?

Nin shi na wei?

If your friend is calling about meeting somewhere, so

you are going to talk about when and where to meet.

Women ji dian jianmian?

Women ji dian jianmin?

Jianmian means meet.

When should we meet?

Women liangdian jianmian.

Women liangdian jianmian.

We'll meet at 2 o'clock.

Where shall we meet?

Women zai nar jianmian?

Women zai nar jianmian?

We'll meet at the tennis court.

Tennis court is wangqiuchang,

wangqiuchang.

Woman zai wangqiuchang jianmina.

Woman zai wangqiuchang jianmina.

We can put when and where together in a sentence.

Women liangdian zai wangqiuchang jianmian.

Women liangdian zai

wangqiuchang jianmian.

According to Chinese grammar, you need to put time first and

then place before verbs of verb phrases.

We need to put liangdian first and

then zai wangqiuchang and then the verb jianmian.

Women liangdian zai wangqiuchang jianmian.

Fine, it's a deal.

Hao yiyanweiding.

Hao yiyanweiding.

In today's episode,

Emily is making phone call to Wang Haoming.

Let's take a look at what they say.

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>> We'll watch the clip on a second time, so

we can repeat the lines used in the episode.

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>> So today's episode, we have learned vocabulary and

phrases related to making a phone call.

I hope you all had fun.

Don't forget to do the quiz in the next section.

See you next time.

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