Learn Mandarin Chinese – Changing money (Lesson 83)

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Today you’ll learn to understand questions and answers used in changing money.
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Please Give Me Two Fives. – 0:42
Counter For Bills / Flat Things – 0:53
Two Sheets – 1:04
Fives – 1:08
Red Ones – 1:30
Two Fives – 1:35
Please Give Me Two Fives. – 1:42
I Have A Ten Here – 1:59
To Bother – 2:12
Sorry To Bother You. I Have A Ten Here. – 2:18
I Have A Ten Here – 2:44
Please Change It For Me. – 2:58
To Change – 3:09
Please Change It For Me. – 3:27
Snacks? – 3:53
How To Change It? – 4:20
How – 4:42
How Do You Want To Change It? – 4:50
How To Change It? – 4:59
More Change – 5:27
Even More Change – 6:19
Thanks – 7:53
You’re Welcome – 8:10
Thanks – 8:33

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. Today you’ll learn to understand questions and answers used in changing money.
Miss Novak is at the front desk of her hotel in Beijing. She has a ten dollar bill in Chinese currency that she wants to break.
Listen.

● Please give me two fives.
○ Qǐng ni gěi wo liǎngzhāng wǔkuàide.
○ Qǐng ni gěi wo liǎngzhāng wǔkuàide.

Here’s the counter for bills and other flat things. You’ve already seen it as a counter for maps.
zhāng
zhāng

We might translate
“liǎngzhāng”

as “two sheets”.

Here’s how he says “fives”.
wǔkuàide
wǔkuàide

Adding the marker
“de”

to
“wǔkuài”

changes it from an amount to something characterized by that amount. Besides referring to a five dollar bill, the expression
“wǔkuàide”

could refer to a five dollar item, that is, a five dollar one.

You’ve already had the marker “de” used in a similar…