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type: Classes
title: 02/20/2025 - Chinese Class
date: '2025-02-20'
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# Homework

2 Conversation using first structure

- Wǒ xǐhuān tā de zhí biān

- Wǒ xǐhuān tā de Xiānyàn de yánsè

3 Sentences using Tell Me When....

- Děng nǐ zuò fàn le gàosù wǒ, wǒ xiǎng chīfan

- Děng nǐ kāishǐ wáner yóuxìle gàosù wǒ, wǒ xiǎng gen ni liànjí

- Děng Tiānqì biàn nuǎn le, wǒ xiǎng qù hǎitān

Use key words to make complete answer to "Why Can Birds Praise Jehovah"?

- yīnwei fēiniǎo you zhōng kòng de Gǔtou, tamen de Gǔtou li yě yǒu zhījià

# Random Words

- 你是真男人

    - Nǐ shì zhēn nánrén

        - You are a real man！

- 生存刀

    - Shēngcún dāo

        - Survival Knife

- 想法不错

    - Xiǎngfǎ bùcuò

        - Good Idea | Lit: Idea not bad

- 我开始留胡子了

    - Wǒ kāishǐ liú húzǐle

        - I started growing a beard.

- 你还留过胡子吗？

    - Nǐ liúguò húzǐ ma

        - Have you ever grown a beard?

- 没有，因为很麻烦

    - Méiyǒu, yīnwèi hěn máfan

        - No, because it's troublesome.

- 指甲刀

    - Zhǐjiǎ dāo

        - Nail Clippers | Lit: Nail Knife

# Next

- 飞鸟的构造非常复杂

    - **SUBJ + de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá**

        - **SUBJ's structure is very complex**

    - Fēiniǎo de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

        - The structure of a flying bird is very complex

            - gòuzào - structure

            - fùzá - complex

    - 人体的构造非常复杂

        - Réntǐ de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

            - The human body is very complex

    - 细胞的构造非常复杂

        - Xìbāo de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

            - The structure of cells is very complex

                - 细胞 | Xìbāo | Lit: Micro round thing

                    - Cell, as in, the thing that makes up life.

- 估计每只鸟有一千根羽毛

    - Gūjì měi zhǐ niǎo yǒu yīqiān gēn yǔmáo

        - Each bird has an estimated 1,000 feathers

            - Gūji - estimated/around

            - měi zhǐ niǎo - Every Bird

            - yǔmáo - Feather

                - gēn is MW for yǔmáo

    - 估计每个人有十万根头发

        - Gūjì měi gèrén yǒu shí wàn gēn tóufǎ

            - shí wàn - 10 x 10,000 = 100,000

            - gēn - Same MW for feathers is used for hairs? Interesting. Apparently because they are both "long skinny things“

    - 估计Spencer有四百个游戏

        - Gūjì Spencer yǒu sìbǎi gè yóuxì

            - It is estimated that Spencer has 400 games

                - It's actually 460

                    - *But who's counting, really?*

# Homework

- 4 sentences for "structure of somethign is very complex"

    - Guàiwù lièrén de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

    - Fēijī de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

    - Diànnǎo de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

    - women de Yǔzhòu de gòuzào fēicháng fùzá

- 4 sentences for "estimated tha thing has so many of thing"

    - Gūjì měi zhǐ Māo yǒu shi gē jīngxū

    - Gūjì měi ge Yún yǒu Shí yì gē Shuǐdī

    - Gūjì měi ge Qiánbāo yǒu liang gē Kǎpiàn

    - Gūjì měi ge Yóuxì wánjiā yǒu Sìbǎi gē youxi