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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Moving In

Help Missus Lin move into the house three doors down: say you've come to help her move in, ask where a suitcase goes, hear to take it upstairs, ask about a photo, hear to hang it up on the wall, ask whether here is all right, hear a bit higher, and say everything is tidied up.

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THE STORY

Missus Lin's new house in Longjing village on moving day, two suitcases and a box of photographs in the front room, Lan and Owen with their sleeves rolled up.

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搬 进来！bān jìnláimove in, word for word move enter come, toward the speaker
林 阿姨， 我们 帮 你 搬 进来！lín āyí, wǒmen bāng nǐ bān jìnláiMissus Lin, we'll help you move in! To a friend.
小心， 很 重。xiǎoxīn, hěn zhòngCareful, it's heavy.
放 在 哪儿？fàng zài nǎrwhere does it go, word for word put at where; where here ends in the northern r sound
这 个 箱子 放 在 哪儿？zhè ge xiāngzi fàng zài nǎrWhere does this suitcase go?
拿 上去，ná shàngqùtake it up, away from the speaker
拿 上去， 放 在 楼上。ná shàngqù, fàng zài lóushàngTake it up, and put it upstairs.
放 在 这里 吗？fàng zài zhèlǐ maPut it here?
这 张 照片 呢？zhè zhāng zhàopiàn neAnd this photo?
挂 起来，guà qǐláihang it up, word for word hang rise come

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