---
type: Classes
title: 04/24/2025 - Chinese Class
date: '2025-04-24'
---

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[04/17/2025 - Chinese Class](Classes/04172025%20-%20Chinese%20Class.md)

# **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**



# Random Words

- 发型师 -> Fǎxíng shī -> Hairdresser | LIT: Hair style person

- 一样 -> Yīyàng -> Same

- 前妻 -> qiánqī - Ex-wife

- 前夫 -> Qiánfū -> Ex-Husband

- 前男友 -> Qián nányǒu -> Ex boyfriend

- 前女友 -> Qián nǚyǒu -> Ex Girlfriend

- 前任 -> Qiánrèn -> Ex, doesn't specify who exactly, just that they are your ex

- 可怕 -> Kěpà -> Horrible | Lit: Make Scared

- 精神 -> jīngshén -> Neat | Good spirits

    - Only used in appearance, doesn't apply to anything but appearance.

- 客户 -> kèhù -> Client

- 谈 -> táng -> to talk

- 事情 -> shìqíng -> business/errands

- 过来 -> guòlái -> to come over

- 休息 -> xiūxí -> To rest/take a break

- 没想到 -> Méi xiǎngdào -> Didn't expect/surprised, in a good way

- 遇 -> yù -> to encounter

# Random Sentences

- 我做了一个噩梦，梦到我的前妻还有他的妈妈

    - Wǒ zuòle yīgè èmèng, mèng dào wǒ de qiánqī hái yǒu tā de māmā

        - I had a nightmare about my ex-wife and his mother

- 我喜欢你新的发型，很短很精神

    - Wǒ xǐhuān nǐ xīn de fǎxíng, hěn duǎn hěn jīngshén

        - I like your new hairstyle, short and neat (or in good spirits)

# Conversation (cont.)

Round III

- JS: 我刚跟客户谈完事情，也过来休息一下。没想到能在这里遇到你

    - JS: Wǒ gāng gēn kèhù tángwán shìqíng, yě guòlái xiūxí yīxià. Méi xiǎngdào néng zài zhèlǐ yùdào nǐ

        - I just with a client finished talking business, also came to rest a bit. I didn't expect to be able to at here encounter you

            - 客户 -> kèhù -> Client

            - 谈 -> táng -> to talk

            - 事情 -> shìqíng -> business/errands

            - 过来 -> guòlái -> to come over

            - 休息 -> xiūxí -> To rest/take a break

            - 没想到 -> Méi xiǎngdào -> Didn't expect/surprised, in a good way

            - 遇 -> yù -> to encounter

- S: 是啊，世界真小！要不要一起坐一会儿，聊聊天儿?

    - S: Shì a, shìjiè zhēn xiǎo! Yào bùyào yīqǐ zuò yīhuǐ'er, liáo liáotiān’er?

        - S: Yes, it’s a small world! Do you want to sit down with me for a while and chat?

            - 世界 -> shìjiè -> World

            - 要不要一起... -> Yào bùyào yīqǐ... -> Do you want to do..... together?

                - *At first glance I thought this said "Do you want to die....together?" and I was like "yea alright cool"*

# Homework

Pick two words and make 2 sentences using Qián-something

- 我的前任打电话给我 || Wǒ de qiánrèn dǎ diànhuà gěi wǒ

- 他的前妻偷窃了我的钱 || Tā de qiánqī tōuqièle wǒ de qián

1 sentence using jīngshén (a male, not a female)

- 他的弟兄非常精神 || Tā de dìxiōng fēicháng jīngshén

2 sentences using Méi xiǎngdào

- 我没想到学习中文 || Wǒ méi xiǎngdào néng xuéxí zhōngwén

- 我没想到能完成大学学业 || Wǒ méi xiǎngdào néng wánchéng dàxué xuéyè

2 sentences using Yào bùyào yīqǐ...

- Yào bùyào yīqǐ qù gōngyuán?

- Yào bùyào yīqǐ wǎn'er yoúxì?