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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

New Year's Eve Dinner

New Year's Eve at the Chens' table: hear the names of the dishes and their puns, ask why there are no firecrackers, hear because of the fire risk, so none, take a red envelope and wish a happy New Year.

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THE STORY

It is the evening of Tuesday the twenty-fifth of January in the Chens' kitchen in Longjing village, the table full for New Year's Eve, with Lan's parents down from Hangzhou and the television gala on in the corner.

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年夜饭！niányèfànNew Year's Eve dinner, word for word year night meal
来， 吃 年夜饭！ 多 吃 点！lái, chī niányèfàn, duō chī diǎnCome, New Year's Eve dinner! Eat some more!
谢谢 师母！ 这 是 什么？xièxie shīmǔ, zhè shì shénmeThank you, Missus Wang! What's this?
年糕。niángāorice cake, word for word year cake
年糕。 年年 高！niángāo, niánnián gāoRice cake. Higher every year!
年年 有 余！niánnián yǒu yúplenty every year, word for word year year have surplus
这 是 鱼。 年年 有 余！zhè shì yú, niánnián yǒu yúThis is fish. Plenty every year!
多 吃 鱼！duō chī yúEat more fish!
鞭炮？biānpàofirecrackers, word for word whip cannon
外面 怎么 没有 鞭炮？wàimiàn zěnme méiyǒu biānpàoWhy are there no firecrackers outside?

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