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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 29 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Grain Rain

It is Grain Rain, the last day of the harvest, and the family sits down to dinner. Say today is Grain Rain and the last wok is done, invite someone to eat, ask when someone is leaving, say Sunday, ask what someone plans after going home, say I don't know, hear the teapot was a gift in 1985, and hear I've known for a long time.

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THE STORY

It's the last day of the harvest, and the first dinner without a wok on the stove. The whole family sits round the table in the Chen kitchen, and an old teapot stands in the middle, wrapped in a blue scarf.

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谷雨gǔyǔGrain Rain
今天 谷雨。 最后 一 锅 好 了!jīntiān gǔyǔ. zuìhòu yì guō hǎo leToday's Grain Rain. The last wok is done!
虾仁xiārénshelled shrimp
来, 吃 龙井 虾仁, 吃 笋!lái, chī lóngjǐng xiārén, chī sǔnCome, eat the Longjing shrimp, eat the bamboo shoots!
什么 时候shénme shíhouwhen
欧文, 你 什么 时候 走?ōuwén, nǐ shénme shíhou zǒuOwen, when are you leaving?
我 星期天 要 走。wǒ xīngqītiān yào zǒuI'm leaving on Sunday.
以后yǐhòuafter
打算dǎsuànto plan
回 美国 以后, 你 打算 做 什么?huí měiguó yǐhòu, nǐ dǎsuàn zuò shénmeAfter you go back to America, what do you plan to do?

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