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type: Classes
title: 09/25/2025 - Chinese Class
date: '2025-09-25'
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# Random Words 

要走了，你有什么感觉？
​Yào zǒule, nǐ yǒu shé me gǎnjué?
​How do you feel about leaving?



这次你会在冲绳呆三个月，对吗？
​Zhè cì nǐ huì zài chōngshéng dāi sān gè yuè, duì ma?
​You will stay in Okinawa for three months this time, right?



逆天你会面试？
​Nì tiān nǐ huì miànshì?
​Are you going to interview?



# 要走了 -> Yào zǒule -> Something is going to happen

`Subj + Yào + Verb + Optional Object + le  = Subj + is going to do + Verb`

le becuase the situation is going to change, you are *going* to do something

### Examples

我要吃饭了
​Wǒ yào chīfànle
​I'm going to eat

我要睡觉了
​Wǒ yào shuìjiàole
​I'm going to go to bed

聚会要开始了，稍后联系你
​Jùhuì yào kāishǐle, shāo hòu liánxì nǐ
​Meeting is about to start, I'll talk to you later

这个制度要结束了
​Zhège zhìdù yào jiéshùle
​This system is coming to an end.

### Going to happen soon

`Subj + Kuài Yào + Verb + Optional Object + le  = Subj + is going to soon do + Verb`

### Examples 

我快要死了
​Wǒ kuàiyào sǐle
​I'm dying soon

新世界快要来了
​Xīn shìjiè kuàiyào láile
​New World is coming soon



# Previous Conversation Continued

A: 你最近咋样啊？
​A: Nǐ zuìjìn zǎ yàng a?
​A: How are you doing lately?

- 咋样 -> zǎ yàng -> How are you doing? | Very colloquial way/ contraction of saying "Zěnme"

- 你咋啦？-> Nǐ zǎ la? -> Whats the matter?

B: 还行，就是每天看新闻到处都有战争，心里很沉重
​B: Hái xíng, jiùshì měitiān kàn xīnwén dàochù dōu yǒu zhànzhēng, xīnlǐ hěn chénzhòng
​B: Its ok, just every day I see on the news everywhere has war, makes my heart heavy

A: 我也一样，有时候我就在想，世界和平到底能不能实现. 你觉得呢？
​A: Wǒ yě yīyàng, yǒu shíhòu wǒ jiù zài xiǎng, "shìjiè hépíng dàodǐ néng bùnéng shíxiàn?"。 Nǐ juédé ne?
​A: I the same, sometimes I think, "word peace after all, can or can not be achieved?" What do you think?

B: 我不知道
​B: Wǒ bù zhīdào
​B: I don’t know

A: 我相信是可能的，但肯定不简单，和平不会突然来领，这需要我们每个人的努力
A: Wǒ xiāngxìn shì kěnéng de, dàn kěndìng bù jiǎndān, hépíng bù huì túrán lái lǐng, zhè xūyào wǒmen měi gèrén de nǔlì

A: I believe it is possible, but it is definitely not easy. Peace will not come suddenly. It requires the efforts of each of us.

- xiāngxìn -> believe

- kěnéng -> Possible

- kěndìng -> Definitely

- jiǎndān -> easy

- hépíng -> Peace

- túrán -> Suddenly

- měi gèrén -> every person/ each of us

- nǔlì -> Effort

# Homework

- Recite Conversation

- 3 Sentences using `Yào + Verb + le`

    - ni de du2shen1 yào jiéshùle

    - xia ke le, wo yao chifanle

    - mingtian, wo yao chuandaole

- 3 Sentences using `Kuài Yào + Verb + le`

    - Wo kuaiyao qu mai dongxi le

    - wo kuaiyao li2kai1 zhe ge fangzi le

    - wo kauiyao he shuile
    ​