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type: Classes
title: 10/06/2025 - Chinese Class
date: '2025-10-06'
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[09/25/2025 - Chinese Class](Classes/09252025%20-%20Chinese%20Class.md)

# Random Words 

Wo de laobao shi AuDaLiYa ren
​My boss is Australian

wo hen xihuan ni de xin faxing, hen haokan, hen shihe ni
​I really like your new haircut, very good looking, fits you very well.

# Using de for more detail 

wo zu de pengyou de fangzi
​I rented a friends house
​- zu1 -> To Rent

Notice the de after the verb, zu. It can be put after a verb to describe/indicate the detail of an action. 

### Example 

Ni chifanle ma?
​Have you eaten?

Chile.
​I did.

Ni chi de shenme?
​You ate what?

Wo Chi de miantiao
​I Ate Noodles

According to this example, and the above one, you throw de after the verb, and then add in all the additional context. 

# 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

B: Shuoqilai rongyi, zuoqilai nan.
​B: Eaiser said then done.

- Its a chengyu, common in English as well. 

A: Dique, dui ren lai shuo hen nan, dan dui shangdi lai shuo, ni juede hai name nan ma?
​A: Indeed, it is difficult for man, but if God says it, do you think its difficult?

B: 我不知道

A: 我想给你看一句话：
A:​Wǒ xiǎng gěi nǐ kàn yījù huà:
​A: I want to show you something

Show Luke 18:27



# Homework 

- 2 Conversations using de for more detail

    - question using le, then response, then another question using de

    - 昨晚，你去了购物吗？
    ​Zuówan, nǐ qù gòuwù le ma?​
    ​去了
    ​Qùle
    ​买的什么？
    ​​mǎi de shénme?​
    ​买的食物，零食，和游戏。
    ​Mǎi de shíwù, língshí, hé yóuxì.

    - 上个月，你出国路由了吗？
    ​Shàng gè yuè, nǐ chūguó lǚyóule ma? ​

        ​路由了。
        ​Lùyóule. ​

        ​路由的哪里
        ​qù de nǎlǐ? ​

        ​路由的美国。
        ​qù de měiguó.

- Recite conversation