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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 25 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Twenty Tables

Plan the wedding banquet with Missus Wang and Lan: say the banquet is settled at twenty tables, hear that the whole village must be invited, ask how many people that is, add five tables, and say the invitations are written and the menu looked at.

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THE STORY

Master Chen's kitchen table on a September evening, Missus Wang with a pencil over a long list of names, Lan with the village cook's menu and Owen counting on his fingers.

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酒席。jiǔxíthe banquet, word for word wine seats
酒席 定 了 吗？jiǔxí dìng le maIs the banquet settled?
定 了， 二十 桌。dìng le, èrshí zhuōIt is: twenty tables.
要 请 全 村！yào qǐng quán cūnmust invite the whole village
二十 桌 够 吗？ 要 请 全 村！èrshí zhuō gòu ma? yào qǐng quán cūnAre twenty tables enough? We must invite the whole village!
全 村 有 多少 人？quán cūn yǒu duōshao rénHow many people are there in the whole village?
一 桌 坐 几 个 人？yì zhuō zuò jǐ ge rénHow many sit at a table?
差不多 两百 人。chàbuduō liǎngbǎi rénAbout two hundred people.
那 再 加 五 桌。nà zài jiā wǔ zhuōThen add five more tables.
请帖。qǐngtiěthe invitations, word for word invite cards

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