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You will find this transcript helpful if: 1. You are a visual learner. 2. Learning to read Chinese is just as important to you as learning to speak it. 3. You dont want to rely on pinyin. 4. You prefer a syllable-for-syllable transcript of what youre hearing. This transcript includes the English narrator (12pt Times New Roman) and all of the spoken Chinese in simplified text (18pt Sim-Sun). I used 18 point for the Chinese text because as a beginner I often had difficulty distinguishing different characters apart. If youre smart and print out the pages double-sided, youll notice that the page numbers and lesson numbers are printed on the bottom outside corners and times for the lessons are in 3-minute intervals on the outside margin next to the corresponding line of dialogue. Enjoy!

LESSON EIGHTEEN This is unit eighteen of Pimsleurs Mandarin Chinese One. Matthew and his friend Diana are in Beijing. She wants to buy a hat, this hat.

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It would be very nice if she could get her hat for one hundred renminbi. One hundred, For this conversation, lets assume that she can.

Do you remember the number fifty in Mandarin?

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Try to say, sixty-one.

Say, Its too expensive. Remember the ending.

Do you remember how to say, thirty-two units or thirty-three units?

Try to say, Its very expensive.

Now tell him that its too expensive.

Say together, Its very expensive. Its too expensive.

What Mandarin word means, quickly?

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And how would you tell someone that she is speaking too quickly?

Tell her you dont understand what she is saying.

Do you remember how to ask, Is it enough?

And how would you ask, Do you have enough money?

Tell me that you have forty-one renminbi.

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Say, Its too much.

Say, Its enough.

Try to say, Its not expensive.

Over there, its not too expensive. Remember to say, located over there.

Heres how to say, Its more expensive. Literally youll say, relatively expensive.

Thats a falling-rising tone followed by two falling tones. Try to say, relatively.

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Say, Its more expensive.

Ask me if I have enough money.

Answer this question, Yes.

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Say, twenty American dollars.

Say, forty-two renminbi.

And how would you say, thirty American dollars?

Say, Its more expensive.

Say, Its too much.

Now say, Its not enough.

Ask, Is it enough?

Now say, Its enough.

Say, Now, youre speaking too quickly.

My husband speaks very quickly.

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Husband is pronounced with two high-level tones. Say, husband.

My husband.

is pronounced with a falling tone. Say, my husband.

And now say, My place.

Say again, My husband.

This is more commonly used for my. Now, heres how to say, my wife.

Thats pronounced with two falling tones. Say again, wife.

Say, my wife.

Say, my husband.

Say, My wife is over there.

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Say, My wife would like to drink something.

Say, My husband would like to drink something.

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Say, My husband would like to drink beer.

Say, My wife would like to drink some tea.

Say, Here its more expensive.

I would like to drink some water.

Water is pronounced with a falling-rising tone. Say, water.

Please, give me water.

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This expression for please is pronounced with two rising tones followed by a fallingrising tone. Say again, Please.

Literally this means, bothering you, in the sense of, Im sorry to bother you. Say, Please give me water.

Now say, My husband would like to drink some water.

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Say, Please give me tea.

Say, my wife.

Try to say, your wife.

Say, Your husband is here.

Ask, Where is my wife?

Say, Your wife isnt here.

Say, Your husband would like to eat something now.

Ask, My husband?

Say, My wife would like to drink some water.

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And how would you say, Please give me water?

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Now say, My husband would like to drink some beer.

Do you remember how to say, Its too expensive?

And now say, Here its more expensive.

Ask, Do you have tea?

Answer, No.

Now say, I dont have any tea.

Do you remember how to ask, With whom?

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What part of that means, whom or who?

Try to ask, Whos over there?

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Say, Your wife.

Ask, What would your wife like to do?

Say, My wife would like to eat something.

Ask, What would you like to drink?

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Say, Please give me tea or water.

Say, You can drink tea.

Ask me where my wife is.

Say, My wife? I dont know.

Now try to say, My wife is at my place.

Ask if shed like to eat supper with you. Remember the word order.

Now say, Impossible.

Try to say, I cant eat supper with you.

How would you tell her that its not too expensive?
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Say, Here its more expensive.

Say, fifty renminbi.

Say, twenty-two American dollars.

She says, Im going to eat dinner with my husband. Just listen.

Say, Im going to eat dinner.

Say, with my husband or along with my husband.

Now say, Im going to eat dinner with my husband.

Ask, Then, would you like to drink something?

How does she accept?

Ask her what she would like to drink.

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Say, Please give me water.

Say, You can drink beer.

Now say, Not okay. Its too expensive.

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Say, Here its more expensive.

How would you ask, Then how about tea?

Tell her, Its not too expensive.

She says, Okay. I would like to drink tea.

Order the tea for her. Say, Please give me one cup of tea.

Say, Here you are, tea.

Listen to what she says and respond appropriately.

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This is the end of unit eighteen.

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