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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Rent

Take the park office's notice with the Deng family: hear the park has sent a notice, ask what it says, hear the rent is going up to twenty thousand, call it outrageous, say you will go and negotiate, hear Grandma ask how, propose three years with no rise, and hear Little Deng say he is coming with you.

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THE STORY

The back room of Grandma Deng's teahouse in Chengdu on a May evening, the last customers gone, a letter with the park office's red stamp open on the table.

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公园。gōngyuánthe park, word for word public garden
通知。tōngzhīa notice, word for word pass through and know
公园 来 通知 了。gōngyuán lái tōngzhī leThe park has sent a notice.
通知 说 什么？tōngzhī shuō shénmeWhat does the notice say?
给 我 看看。gěi wǒ kànkanLet me see.
涨 到 两万 块。zhǎng dào liǎngwàn kuàigoes up to twenty thousand
房租 涨 到 两万 块。fángzū zhǎng dào liǎngwàn kuàiThe rent is going up to twenty thousand.
一 个 月 两万 块。yí gè yuè liǎngwàn kuàiTwenty thousand a month.
离谱。lípǔoutrageous, word for word off the score, like a singer off the music
太 离谱 了！tài lípǔ leThat's outrageous!

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