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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

The Hot Wok

It's Tuesday afternoon, and the morning's leaves go into the wok. In the frying room, two woks are as hot as an iron, a young frier from Anhui calls Owen anything but his name, and Owen finds out how long an apprentice used to watch. In the evening, the weather forecast makes Master Chen stand up. Say it's hot in here and that you've got a name, tell someone what to call you, say what someone is doing, ask if someone can fry tea and say you can't, ask someone to teach you, warn someone that something is very hot, ask if it still hurts and say it doesn't, and understand a weather forecast.

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THE STORY

It's Tuesday afternoon in the frying room of the Chen house, where two woks are as hot as an iron. A young frier from Anhui has a name for Owen, and it isn't Owen. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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这里 很 热!zhèlǐ hěn rèIt's hot in here!
老外。lǎowàiforeigner, said casually
名字。míngzia name
我 有 名字!wǒ yǒu míngziI've got a name!
我 姓 吴wǒ xìng wúmy family name is Wu
叫 我 小吴 吧!jiào wǒ xiǎowú baJust call me Little Wu!
我 在 炒 茶 呢!wǒ zài chǎo chá neI'm frying tea!
你 会 炒 茶 吗?nǐ huì chǎo chá maCan you fry tea?
我 不 会。wǒ bú huìNo, I can't.
教 我 吧!jiāo wǒ baTeach me!

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