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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Storyteller's Night

Take the stage on the storyteller's night: hear him greet the elders and neighbours and announce that tonight is not the Three Kingdoms, hear Uncle Tang ask what then, hear it is the foreign apprentice's story, be called up by Grandma, open with it is told, be told to go on, close with the storyteller's cliffhanger, and hear Grandma praise the trick.

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THE STORY

Grandma Deng's teahouse in Chengdu on a Saturday night, every bamboo chair taken, the regulars in front, the old storyteller on the little stage with his wake-block, Owen beside him.

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各位 父老 乡亲。gèwèi fùlǎo xiāngqīnelders and neighbours all, word for word each position, fathers and elders, countryfolk
三国。sānguóthe Three Kingdoms, the storytellers' great tale
各位 父老 乡亲， 今天 不 说 三国。gèwèi fùlǎo xiāngqīn, jīntiān bù shuō sānguóElders and neighbours all, tonight it is not the Three Kingdoms.
那 说 什么？nà shuō shénmeThen what?
醒木 一 拍。xǐngmù yì pāiOne strike of the wake-block.
洋 徒弟。yáng túdithe foreign apprentice, word for word ocean apprentice
说 洋 徒弟 的 故事。shuō yáng túdi de gùshiThe story of the foreign apprentice.
欧文， 该 你 了！ōuwén, gāi nǐ leOwen, your turn!
大家 都 在 听。dàjiā dōu zài tīngEveryone is listening.
洋人。yángréna foreigner, word for word ocean person

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