今天today 是is 三月March 二十七日27th，星期五Friday，现在now 是is 下午afternoon 五点five o'clock 二十三 23 分minutes。外面outside 是is 雨天raining，春天spring 雨水rainfall 很多a lot。
=> Afraid I walk not able that far.
【不了 not able 】and 【那么远 that far】are too compliments. They are a special form of adverbial modifiers. You can also say [I not able walk that far.] In this sentence, [ not able/Buneng ] is ahead of the verb [walk].
各位晚上好。希望大家平安。Today we are going to learn to ask about distance. In our daily life, we used two words for the measurement of distance: kilo meter, and li.
How far is two Li? = >Two Li is how far?
各位好。Hello everybody. The coronavirus pandemic is causing a chaoes in the world. I am so sorry for our government bringing this to the world.
There is no bathroom near here.
You walk along the way, for one km approximately, there is a KFC.
— Na [then]ni[you] Jinlai[come in/enter], yong [use]women de [our]Weishengjian [bathroom]ba.
feichang ganXie. Zai na?
— loutijian XiaMian.
you ZuoBianQi ma?
meiyou de.
Na wo haiShi xiang biede Banfa ba.
各位朋友，大家平安。Hello, I hope everyone safe and sound. What we are going to learn today is something we typically say to our children. 这是山水中文 第32课，欢迎大家。This is inMountains Mandarin Course, Lesson 32, welcome.
We could say [Don’t TO strangers speak./ 别对陌生人说话], but it will mean something slightly different. When you use SPEAK TO/对…说话, it normally means you talk to the other person and he/she is more or less just a listener. While WITH STRANGERS TALK/和陌生人说话 indicates a converstation, the words will be from both sides.
各位早上好。I posted a message on Facebook today about my decision of purchasing a large quantity of rice one month ago, yesterday I found out that my decision was right because the rice price has gone up a lot recently, even in the countryside where I live, where we grow our own rice. How about you? Are you doing ok in this pandemic?
How many ways of saying goodbyes are there in Chinese language?
大家好 /Hello everyone。Next time when your friends/family leave for China, it's a good chance to say this sentence. This is another example of a sentence without a subject, which is omitted. I mean both subjects in the main sentence and the clause. Take a look.
In the English speaking world, you often say "Say hello to your wife.", while in China, we tend to say "Please send my regards to your parents/mother/father". In ancient time, the regards was often to the father. In modern China, this type of gestures is disappearing, in addition to a lot of other traditions.
In this sentence, there is no subject, no object, just a predicate.
OK, today, we continue with the bargaining conversation taking place in a cloth shop, between a foreign tourist, a shop clerk and a shop owner. I hope you learn some useful phrases here.
You see. She/he is a foreigner, coming from far away. 【Whenever you see a word [de] at the end of a sentence, it indicates something omitted, to cut the conversation short and efficient. 】
[very far come] is an objective clause. It modifying the omitted object person.
Just give her a discount, will you?
All right then. I will give you a discount of 20% off if you buy two.
No problem. I will buy them.
bargain = 讨价还价 tao Jia huan Jia 【tau Jar hwan Jar】价/Jia means price; 讨价 means to request a price；还价 means to return a price；
price = 价格;
价 is short for 价格;
This scarf is really nice. 【again, [is] is not translated. In Chinese, there is no need to use such word linking a subject and an adjective.】
I would like to know, do you offer a discount? 【In many Chinese sentences, the subjects are omitted. While in English, this is rare. In the sentence above, both the subject [I](don’t know) and the subject [item] of the clause are omitted.】
Yes, we do. 【You see, in this sentence, the subject is also omitted, which is the Item scarf.】
Boss. Will you offer a discount for this scarf?【Xing ma – a common phrase to ask for permission.】
It is already the lowest price. 【Again, the subject is omitted.】【le – normally indicates a past tense, here it is used to emphasize the word already. – I have already lowered the price. a perfect tense.】
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