LESSON NOTES

3-Minute Chinese S1 #20

Talking about Your Likes

CONTENTS
2 Simplified Chinese
2 Traditional Chinese
2 Pinyin
2 English
3 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar
5 Cultural Insight

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 SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

1. 你喜欢巧克力吗？

2. 你喜欢糖果吗？

3. 喜欢。

4. 是的，我喜欢。

TRADITIONAL CHINESE

1. 你喜歡巧克力嗎？

2. 你喜歡糖果嗎？

3. 喜歡。

4. 是的，我喜歡。

PINYIN

1. nǐ xǐhuān qiǎokèlì ma ?

2. nǐ xǐhuān tángguǒ ma ?

3. xǐhuān.

4. shì de , Wǒ xǐhuān .

ENGLISH
CONT'D OVER

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1. Do you like chocolate?

2. Do you like sweets?

3. Like it.

4. Yes, I like them.

VOCABULARY

S implifie d Tr aditional Pinyin English C lass

是的 shì de yes adverb

喜欢 xǐhuān to like verb

巧克力 巧克力 qiǎokèlì chocolate noun

你 你 nǐ you pronoun

吗 ma question marker particle

糖果 糖果 tángguǒ candy noun

SAMPLE SENTENCES

吃巧克力会发胖，但是我还是很爱 孩子们喜欢吃巧克力。
吃。 Háizǐmen xǐhuan chī qiǎokèlì.
chī qiǎokèlì huì fàpàng, dànshì Wǒ hái shì hěn ài
chī . Children like to eat chocolate.

Chocolate makes me fat, but I still love it.

是你吗？
Shì nǐ ma?

Is it you?

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GRAMMAR

In this lesson you will learn how to ask and answer affirmatively to the question.

Register Thai Romanization English

你喜欢巧克 nǐ xǐ huān Do you like

Phrase 1 formal 力吗 ？ qiǎ okèlì ma ? chocolate?

Word 1 你 nǐ you

Word 2 喜欢 xǐhuān to like

Word 3 巧克力 qiǎokèlì chocolate

question
Word 4 吗 ma marker

你喜欢糖果 nǐ xǐ huān Do you like

Phrase 2 formal 吗？ tángguǒ ma ? sweets?

Word 1 你 nǐ you

Word 2 喜欢 xǐhuān to like

Word 3 糖果 tángguǒ candy

question
Word 4 吗 ma marker

Phrase 3 informal 喜欢 。 xǐ huān. Like it.

Word 1 喜欢 xǐhuān to like

是的 ， 我喜 shì de , Wǒ Yes, I like

Phrase 4 formal 欢。 xǐ huān . them.

Word 1 是的 shì de yes

Word 2 我 wǒ I

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Word 3 喜欢 xǐhuān to like

CULTURAL INSIGHT

In Chinese, if you really want to insist on the fact that you love something but in an informal
way, you can use the adverbs hěn or fēicháng which mean “very much”, to modify the word
xǐhuān. You will certainly hear Wǒ hěn xǐhuān jiàqī or Wǒ fēicháng xǐhuān jiàqī! This means "I
really like holidays!" It’s stronger than xǐhuān but weaker than ài.

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