Skip to content
fluentbyear
🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

New Year's Day

New Year's morning in the Chens' courtyard: pay your New Year call, hear prosperity to you, taste rice wine made at home, and hear Master Chen say one sentence about the day someone left.

Audio instruction: English

Report a problem with this lesson

This lesson needs a subscription.

The first 2 lessons of each level are free. One subscription unlocks every other lesson, in the app and on the website.

See the plans

Already subscribed? Sign in. Or listen to lesson 1 for free.

THE STORY

It is the morning of New Year's Day, Wednesday the twenty-sixth of January, in the Chens' courtyard in Longjing village, with a jar of home-made rice wine on the table and the first visitors gone.

Flashcards

The words and phrases of this lesson, one card each. Best after you’ve listened.

Create your account.

Create a free account and confirm your email to keep the cards you like and the decks you make.

Already have an account? Sign in

Words and phrases

The lesson is for your ears. Open this afterwards, to see what you learned.
给 您 拜 年！gěi nín bài niánwish you a happy New Year, politely, word for word give you pay respects year
陈 师傅， 给 您 拜 年！chén shīfu, gěi nín bài niánMaster Chen, I've come to wish you a happy New Year! Politely.
恭喜 发财！gōngxǐ fācáiprosperity to you, word for word congratulations get rich
恭喜 发财！ 坐， 喝 酒。gōngxǐ fācái, zuò, hē jiǔProsperity to you! Sit, have some wine.
师母， 给 您 拜 年！shīmǔ, gěi nín bài niánMissus Wang, happy New Year to you! Politely.
大年 初一，dànián chūyīNew Year's Day, word for word big year first one
今天 大年 初一， 喝 黄酒！jīntiān dànián chūyī, hē huángjiǔToday's New Year's Day, we drink rice wine!
黄酒？ 我 没 喝 过。huángjiǔ, wǒ méi hē guoRice wine? I've never had it.
我 自己 做 的。wǒ zìjǐ zuò demade it myself, word for word I self make, of
这 是 我 自己 做 的。zhè shì wǒ zìjǐ zuò deI made it myself.

5 more cards in this lesson. Subscribe to see and study them all. See the plans. Already subscribed? Sign in.