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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Old Bushes

Climb to the old tea bushes on the rock face with Old Fang: ask how old they are, hear more than three hundred years, say they are much older than Master Chen's, and go up carefully.

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THE STORY

It is a bright morning on a cliff path in the Wuyi Mountains, and Old Fang points up at a few bushes growing out of the stone.

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茶树cháshùtea bushes
在 石头 上。zài shítou shangon the rock, word for word at stone top
你 看， 茶树 在 石头 上。nǐ kàn, cháshù zài shítou shangLook, the tea bushes are on the rock. To a friend.
这 茶树 多大 了？zhè cháshù duōdà leHow old are these tea bushes?
您 小心！nín xiǎoxīnCareful! Politely.
三百 多 年sānbǎi duō niánmore than three hundred years
三百 多 年 了。sānbǎi duō nián leMore than three hundred years.
老 多 了！lǎo duō lemuch older, word for word old, by a lot
比 陈 师傅 的 老 多 了！bǐ chén shīfu de lǎo duō leMuch older than Master Chen's!
比 我 老 多 了！bǐ wǒ lǎo duō leMuch older than me!

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