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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Long Noodles

It is Owen's birthday, and nobody was told. Say happy birthday, ask how do you know, hear don't bite the long-life noodles, ask how old someone is, say twenty-eight, hear when she left she was twenty-eight too, say cheers, and wish a hundred years.

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THE STORY

It's evening in the Chen house, and the whole family has gathered round the big table in the kitchen. A bowl of noodles stands in front of Owen, and a small tin beside it.

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生日shēngrìbirthday
欧文, 生日 快乐!ōuwén, shēngrì kuàilèOwen, happy birthday!
你 怎么 知道?nǐ zěnme zhīdaoHow do you know?
吃 长寿面!chī chángshòumiàneat the long-life noodles
别 咬 断!bié yǎo duàndon't bite them through
来, 吃 长寿面! 别 咬 断!lái, chī chángshòumiàn! bié yǎo duànCome, eat the long-life noodles! Don't bite them through!
多大duōdàhow old
你 多大 了?nǐ duōdà leHow old are you?
二十八 岁。èrshíbā suìTwenty-eight.
她tāshe

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