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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Lan Quits

Lan's boss calls about what she told a customer: say what you said, say the tea at six hundred a jin isn't West Lake Longjing, refuse to say it again, quit, and say you'll open your own shop.

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THE STORY

A hot afternoon in the Chens' courtyard. Lan's phone rings, and it is her boss at the tea company in the city. Owen sits beside her and listens.

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陈兰， 你 说 了 什么？chénlán, nǐ shuō le shénmeChen Lan, what did you say?
真话。zhēnhuàthe truth, word for word true words
我 说 了 真话。wǒ shuō le zhēnhuàI told the truth.
他 说 了 什么？tā shuō le shénmeWhat did he say?
什么 真话？shénme zhēnhuàWhat truth?
不 是 西湖 龙井。bú shì xīhú lóngjǐngisn't West Lake Longjing
一 斤 六百 的， 不 是 西湖 龙井。yì jīn liùbǎi de, bú shì xīhú lóngjǐngThe one at six hundred a jin isn't West Lake Longjing.
这 是 真 的 吗？zhè shì zhēn de maIs this real?
你 不 要 再 说 了！nǐ bú yào zài shuō leDon't say that again!
我 不 说 了。wǒ bù shuō leI'll say no more.

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