Learn Mandarin Chinese – Changing Money + (Lesson 84)

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Using the Chinese characters practice asking and answering questions used in changing money.
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请你给我两张五块的。 – 0:38
Fives – 0:51
De Marker – 0:59
Two Fives – 1:13
Please Give Me Two Fives. – 1:23
Sorry To Bother You – 1:54
我这儿有一张十块的 – 2:17
A Ten / Tens – 2:24
One Ten Dollar Bill – 2:34
I Have A Ten Here – 2:44
Sorry To Bother, I Have A Ten – 3:01
Requesting Change – 3:35
请你给我换换 – 4:01
To Change – 4:06
给 – 4:30
Please Change It For Me – 4:56
Changing Money – 5:10
您要怎么换？ – 5:29
How – 5:39
How Do You Want To Change It? – 5:46
Would You Give Me 2 Fives – 6:39
Would You Give Me Two Fives – 6:54

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. Now it’s your turn to say the things you learned in the last lesson. Plus you’ll learn the Chinese characters.
We’re at the desk of a hotel in Beijing.
Listen.
○ 请你给我两张五块的。

Just as speakers of English talk about fives, tens, and twenties when discussing money, so do speakers of Chinese.
Repeat the word for “fives”.
○ 五块的
○ 五块的

You’ve seen the marker
“de”

act in this way before, making nouns out of other parts of speech as in
“báide”

(“the white ones”).

The counter for “bills” is the same as the counter for “maps” and other flat, sheet-like things.
Repeat “two fives”.
○ 两张五块的
○ 两张五块的

Repeat “Please give me two fives.”
○ 请你给我两张五块的。
○ 请你给我两张五块的。

Try saying it ahead of the speaker.
请你给我两张五块的。

A good way to break in with a request for change is with a phrase such as “sorry to bother you.”
Listen.
麻烦你
麻烦你

Literally, it means “I’m bothering you” with…