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Y: Welcome to Chinese studio, wo shi yajie.
R: Wo Shi Raymond. hey you’re at Chinese studio and we’re here to fill your minds up.
Y: After we stop eating with our hands, we can move to finding out how to wipe all this nasty sauce off us.
R: That’s right, we have to clean our hands so lets go over the key words of the day.
Key Words of the Day
Napkins 餐巾纸 “I would like some more napkins.” 再拿几张餐巾纸. Clean,干净 plate 盘子 I would like a new clean plate please. 请换个干净的盘子。All in today’s Chinese studio.
R: Hey yajie, you ‘ve got something on your mouth.
Y: Thanks Raymond, oh no, we’re out of napkins.
R: Yea so we better get some more napkins.
Y: They never give us enough.
R: Oh so tell me how to say “I would like some more napkins.” 再拿几张餐巾纸.
Zai4 na2 ji3 zhang1 can1 jin1 zhi3
Zai4: more
Na2: bring
Ji3 zhang1: some. Zhang1 is the measure word for napkins
Can1 jin1 zhi3: napkins
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Y: Man this plate is so dirty.
R: Yea I know, I hate dirty plate. I hate anything that’s dirty.
Y: Lets ask them to get a new clean one.
R: Ok, how do you say that? I would like a new clean plate please.
请换个干净的盘子。
qing3 huan4 ge gan1 jing4 de pan2 zi.
Qing3: please
Huan4: change
Ge4: measure word for plate, which means one,
Gan1 jing4: clean
De:
Pan2 zi: plate
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R: Well now that we’ve got new clean things, we can relax and eat bacteria free lunches.
Y: You could get chemical poisoning.
R: Well whatever.
Y: So anyways how do you say “I would like a new clean plate please.” in Chinese?
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R: Mingtian Jian.
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