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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Whoever Finds the Coin

See the year in at midnight: be called to wrap dumplings, ask what Lan put in one, hear whoever finds the coin is the lucky one, hear the Gala has started, hear Lan ask if the act is funny, hear Master Chen ask where the punchline was, say it was in the last line, and hear midnight and happy New Year.

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THE STORY

Master Chen's kitchen table in Longjing village near midnight, flour on the board, the television loud in the next room, a bowl of coins washed for the dumplings.

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快 来 包 饺子！kuài lái bāo jiǎoziQuick, come and wrap dumplings!
你 放 了 什么？nǐ fàng le shénmeWhat did you put in? To a friend.
再 包 几 个。zài bāo jǐ gèWrap a few more.
硬币。yìngbìa coin, word for word hard currency
谁 吃 到， 谁 有 福！shéi chī dào, shéi yǒu fúwhoever finds it is the lucky one, word for word who eats to it, who has fortune
硬币。 谁 吃 到， 谁 有 福！yìngbì. shéi chī dào, shéi yǒu fúA coin. Whoever finds it is the lucky one!
我 吃 到 硬币 了！wǒ chī dào yìngbì leI got the coin!
春晚。chūnwǎnthe Spring Festival Gala, the television show of New Year's Eve, word for word spring evening
春晚 开始 了！chūnwǎn kāishǐ leThe Gala has started!
好 笑。hǎo xiàofunny, word for word good to laugh

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