Mandarin Lesson One: Food(1)
Posted in Mandarin Podcast by twominchinese on March 9th, 2007 Huan1 ying2! Welcome to the first Mandarin lesson. This is Paul. Chinese consider food is the number one important stuff in life. Who else doesn’t ? Food is the basic needs of human being. So let’s talk about food in our first lesson. 1) min2 yi2 shi2 wei2 tian1 ( people consider food as heaven ) 2) chi1 fan4 ( eat rice = have a meal ) 3) can1 guan3 ( meal house = restaurant ) 4) ji 1 ( chicken ) 5) niu2 ( cow ) 6) yu2 ( fish ) 7) xia1 ( shrimp ) 8) rou4 ( meat ) 9) cai4 ( dish or vegie ) 10) zhu1 ( pig )
If you master the above words, you may know how to say these:
ji1 rou4 (chicken meat) niu2 rou4 (beef) zhu1 rou4 (pork ) yu2 rou4 (fish meat )
We’ll learn more next time. See you.
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