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type: Classes
title: 04/17/2025 - Chinese Class
date: '2025-04-17'
---

# **Homework:**

- **Recite Conversation**

- **Key Word: 随便 (suíbiàn)**

    - **Meaning:** Casual, random, informal, as one pleases, do as you like.

    - **Example:** 你想吃什么？随便。 (Nǐ xiǎng chī shénme? Suíbiàn.) - What do you want to eat? Anything/Whatever.

- **Make 3 sentences with "从现在起 (cóng xiànzài qǐ)" -> From now on:**

    1. **从现在起，我只会吃披萨 (cóng xiànzài qǐ, Wǒ zhǐ huì chī pīsà)**

        - Translation: From now on, I will only eat pizza.

    2. **从现在起，我只玩儿任天堂的游戏 (cóng xiànzài qǐ, Wǒ zhǐ wán'er rèntiāntáng de yóuxì)**

        - Translation: From now on, I will only play Nintendo games.

    3. **从现在起，我只会喝啤酒和水 (cóng xiànzài qǐ, Wǒ zhǐ huì hē píjiǔ hé shuǐ)**

        - Translation: From now on, I will only drink beer and water.

    # **Random Words:** 

    - **这个自行车的速度非常非常快 (Zhège zìxíngchē de sùdù fēicháng fēicháng kuài)**

        - Translation: This bicycle's speed is very, very fast.

        - **自行车 (zìxíngchē):** Bicycle

        - **速度 (sùdù):** Speed

    - **骑车的时候，一定要注意安全 (Qí chē de shíhòu, yīdìng yào zhùyì ānquán)**

        - Translation: When riding a bike, be sure to pay attention to safety.

        - **注意 (zhùyì):** To pay attention to

        - **安全 (ānquán):** Safety

        - **骑车 (qí chē):** To ride a bike (or other straddled vehicle).

            - **LIT:** Straddle vehicle

        - **开车 (kāichē):** To drive a car.

            - **LIT:** Open vehicle

        - **坐车 (zuòchē):** To sit in a car / To take a car (as a passenger).

            - **LIT:** Sit vehicle

    - **骑摩托车的时候，一定要注意安全 (Qí mótuō chē de shíhòu, yīdìng yào zhùyì ānquán)**

        - Translation: When riding a motorcycle, you must pay attention to safety.

        - **摩托车 (mótuō chē):** Motorcycle

    - **ACTIVITY + 的时候 (de shíhòu), 一定要注意安全 (yīdìng yào zhùyì ānquán)**

        - Translation: When doing ACTIVITY, be sure to pay attention to safety (don't get hurt).

    # **Conversations** 

    **(Theme: When you meet someone by coincidence, at a coffee shop):**

    Round I

    - **S: 哎？JS! 你也在这里啊，好巧！ (Āi? JS! Nǐ yě zài zhèlǐ a, hǎo qiǎo!)**

        - Translation: Huh? JS! You're also here? What a coincidence!

        - **好巧 (hǎo qiǎo)!:** What a coincidence!

            - **LIT:** Good coincidence!

    - **JS: 哎？Spencer? 真的是你！最近怎么样啊？好久不见了？ (Āi? Spencer? Zhēn de shì nǐ! Zuìjìn zěnme yàng a? Hǎojiǔ bùjiànle?)**

        - Translation: Huh? Spencer? It's really you! How have you been lately? Long time no see?

        - **好久不见了 (hǎojiǔ bùjiànle)?:** Long time no see?

            - **LIT:** Long time no see [particle indicating change/completion]

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    Round II

    - **S: 是啊，好久不见！我挺好的，你呢？在忙什么呢？ (Shì a, hǎojiǔ bùjiàn! Wǒ tǐng hǎo de, nǐ ne? Zài máng shénme ne?)**

        - Translation: It is, long time no see! I'm pretty good, how about you? What have you been busy with?

        - **挺 (tǐng):** Pretty (as in "pretty good" - adverb)

    - **JS: 我最近在忙一个新项目，有点累，所以来这里喝杯咖啡放松一下。你呢？ (Wǒ zuìjìn zài máng yīgè xīn xiàngmù, yǒudiǎn lèi, suǒyǐ lái zhèlǐ hē bēi kāfēi fàngsōng yīxià. Nǐ ne?)**

        - Translation: I've been busy with a new project lately, a little bit tired, so I came here to drink a cup of coffee and relax a bit. How about you?

        - **项目 (xiàngmù):** Project

    # **Homework (Repetition):** 

    - **3 sentences using "ACTIVITY + 的时候 (de shíhòu), 一定要注意安全 (yīdìng yào zhùyì ānquán)"**

        - 上课的时候，一定要注意入睡

            - Shàngkè de shíhòu, yīdìng yào zhùyì rùshuì

        - 写信的时候，一定要注意写得好

            - Xiě xìn de shíhòu, yīdìng yào zhùyì xiě dé hǎo

        - 传道的时候，一定要注意你的衣服

            - Chuándào de shíhòu, yīdìng yào zhùyì nǐ de yīfú

    - **Recite conversation**