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Learn Mandarin Chinese – Shopping – Selling (Lesson 66)

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Differentiate between the words for buying and selling. We’ll also introduce the topic position of a sentence.
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Nǐmen Zhèli Mài Měiguo Zázhì Bu Mai? – 0:44
To Sell – 1:05
Magazine – 1:23
Nǐmen Zhèli Mài Měiguo Zázhì Bu Mai? – 1:53
Hǎo, Wǒ Mǎi Yìběn. – 2:20
Copy/Volume – 2:51
One Copy Of A Magazine – 3:01
Hǎo, Wǒ Mǎi Yìběn. – 3:11
Nǐmen Zhèli Yǒu Měiguo Shū Meiyou? – 3:43
Book – 4:10
Study Books – 4:16
I’m Sorry – 4:21
We Don’t Sell American Books. – 4:35
Nǐmen Zhèli Yǒu Měiguo Shū Meiyou? – 5:06
Buy And Sell – 5:52
… Yīgòng Duōshao Qián? – 6:20
Altogether – 7:00
… Yīgòng Duōshao Qián? – 7:20
Nǐmen Zhèli Mài Dìtú Bu Mai? – 8:13
Map – 8:35
Nǐmen Zhèli Mài Dìtú Bu Mai? – 8:42
Nín Xiǎng Mǎi Shénme Dìtú? – 9:10
What Map – 9:31
One Map – 9:41
Nín Xiǎng Mǎi Shénme Dìtú? – 10:02
Zhèzhāng Táiběi Dìtú Duōshao Qián? – 10:31
This Map – 10:50
Zhèzhāng Táiběi Dìtú Duōshao Qián? – 11:01
Review Dialogue – 11:35
These Two Maps – 12:00
Review Dialogue – 12:09

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Partial transcript
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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com and this is Mandarin Chinese. Today we’re going to add the word “to sell” to your vocabulary, which is going to get a bit confusing as you shall see.
Last time we were following Mr. Cook as he was doing some shopping in Taiwan.
Now Mr. Cook asks for something else.

● Do you sell American magazines here?
○ Nǐmen zhèli mài Měiguo zázhì bu mai?
○ Nǐmen zhèli mài Měiguo zázhì bu mai?
● Yes, wo do.
○ Wǒmen zhèli mài.
○ Wǒmen zhèli mài.

Here’s the verb for “to sell”.
mài
mài

Notice that the verbs for “to sell” and “to buy” are the same except for tones. The wo…