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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Beef Noodles

It's Friday lunchtime, and Owen is hungry. In a little noodle shop in a lane, with the menu on the wall in characters, he orders beef noodles without chili and a basket of soup dumplings, asks how much it is, gets forty and fourteen the wrong way round, and pays by scanning the shop's code. Call a shopkeeper boss, order a bowl or a basket of something, ask if it's spicy, ask how much it is, say the numbers from ten to ninety-nine, and pay by phone.

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THE STORY

It's Friday, half past twelve, and Owen is hungry. Down a narrow lane there's a noodle shop with six tables, and the menu is on the wall, all in characters. The owner shouts every order to the kitchen, and to pay, Owen will need numbers bigger than nine. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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你好, 吃 什么?nǐ hǎo, chī shénmeHello! What are you having?
老板。lǎobǎnboss, what you call a shopkeeper
老板, 这个 是 什么?lǎobǎn, zhège shì shénmeBoss, what's this one?
牛肉 面niúròu miànbeef noodles, word for word cow meat noodles
辣 吗?là maIs it spicy?
有点 贵yǒudiǎn guìa bit expensive
有点 辣。yǒudiǎn làIt's a bit spicy.
一 碗yì wǎnone bowl
一 碗 牛肉 面yì wǎn niúròu miàna bowl of beef noodles
不 要 辣bú yào làno chili, word for word not want spicy

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