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Learn Mandarin Chinese – Shopping – Buying + (Lesson 65)

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Using the Chinese characters, practice asking choice questions using “méi”, talking about money such as asking “how much”, and using the important verb “xi?ng”.
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这里有英文报吗? – 0:38
Newspaper – 0:46
English-language Newspaper – 0:53
English Vs. England – 1:05
Are There Any English Newspapers? – 1:12
Yǒu – 1:26
Are There Any English Newspapers? – 1:44
这里有英文报没有? – 2:41
Are There Any Newspapers Here? – 2:58
Are There Any English Newspapers? – 3:18
Do You Have Children? – 3:47
我想买英文报。 – 4:12
To Buy – 4:19
Xiǎng – 4:26
To Want To – 4:35
I’d Like To Buy An English Paper. – 4:43
这个多少钱? – 5:10
How Much – 5:18
Money – 5:38
How Much Does This Cost? – 5:45
How Old Are You? – 6:11
How Much Does This Cost? – 6:17
Five Dollars – 6:31
Dollar – 6:36
Five Dollars – 6:51
The English Newspaper Is Five Dollars. – 7:05
这个中文报多少钱? – 7:17
Chinese-language Newspaper – 7:27
How Much Is This Chinese Newspaper? – 7:41
Three Dollars A Copy. – 8:08
Copy – 8:16
One Copy – 8:26
Three Dollars A Copy. – 8:41

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Writers – John Harvey, Lucille Barale, Roberta Barry, Thomas Madden, Susan Pola

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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.
Listen to this exchange.
Two students are talking in a library in Taipei.
○ 这里有英文报吗?
○ 有。就在那里。

Repeat the word for “newspaper”.
○ 报
○ 报

Repeat “English-language newspaper”.
○ 英文报
○ 英文报

Notice that here it’s
“Yīngwén bào”

(“an English-language newspaper”) not
“Yīngguo bào”

(“a newspaper from England”).

Repeat “Are there any English-language newspapers here?”
○ 这…