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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Four Is Four

Take your first crosstalk lesson: be told to practise a tongue twister, ask what that is, hear four is four and ten is ten, say you cannot keep up, hear fourteen and forty, say your tongue is in a knot, hear that practice makes perfect, and promise to practise every day.

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THE STORY

The empty teahouse on a weekday morning, chairs on the tables, Mister Hou at the edge of the little stage with a cup of jasmine tea, Owen standing in front of it.

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绕口令。ràokǒulìnga tongue twister, word for word wind-the-mouth order
先 练 绕口令。xiān liàn ràokǒulìngFirst, practise a tongue twister.
什么 是 绕口令？shénme shì ràokǒulìngWhat's a tongue twister?
四 是 四， 十 是 十。sì shì sì, shí shì shíFour is four, ten is ten.
看 我 的 嘴。kàn wǒ de zuǐWatch my mouth.
跟 不 上。gēn bu shàngcan't keep up, word for word follow, not, up
我 跟 不 上！wǒ gēn bu shàngI can't keep up!
我 说 对 了 吗？wǒ shuō duì le maDid I say it right?
十四 是 十四， 四十 是 四十。shísì shì shísì, sìshí shì sìshíFourteen is fourteen, forty is forty.
对 了！ 再 快 一点。duì le! zài kuài yìdiǎnRight! Now a bit faster.

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