春天来了Spring is here，今天天气晴朗 it is a sunny day。很高兴又在这里和大家见面了。Very glad to meet with you guys here again. 这是山水中文 第24课 This is inMountains Mandarin Course Lesson 24。

• — Xianzai de 现在的 nowadays de
• zhongguoren 中国人 Chinese people
• meiyou 没有 nobody
• JiaoZuo 叫做 is called
• Daniu de le. 大牛的了 Daniu de
• Hen 很 quite
• xiangtu.乡土 rural

Nowadays Chinese people do not pick Daniu as a boy’s name anymore. It is very rural.

• wode zhongwen mingZi [my Chinese name]我的中文名字
• Shi 是 is
• shenme 什么 what
• Yisi[meaning]? 意思

What does my Chinese name mean?

• Yisi 意思 meaning
• Shi [is]是
• yitou [one] 一头
• baiSe[white] de 白色的
• [linking an attributive modifier and its object]
• Da [big] 大
• niu. 牛cow

Its meaning is a big white cow.

• wode[my] 我的
• tian[heaven] a! 天啊

Oh my God.

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