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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The First Customer

Serve your first customer, an old Beijinger who doubts a southerner's Longjing: hear him ask whether it is the real thing, tell him one sip will say, hear him grant it is not bad and ask the price, name it, hear him tell you not to brag and make a low offer, answer with the saying of every market, hear his last price, and close the deal.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Owen's new stall on its first morning, a kettle on, and an old man in a flat cap turning a tin of Longjing over in his hands.

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您 这 是 正宗 的 吗？nín zhè shì zhèngzōng de maIs this of yours the real thing? Politely.
尝 一 口 就 知道。cháng yì kǒu jiù zhīdàoone sip and you'll know, word for word taste one mouth then know
大爷， 您 尝 一 口 就 知道。dàye, nín cháng yì kǒu jiù zhīdàoGrandpa, one sip and you'll know. Politely.
还 行。 多少 钱 一 斤？hái xíng. duōshao qián yì jīnNot bad. How much a jin?
两千 一 斤， 最 好 的。liǎngqiān yì jīn, zuì hǎo deTwo thousand a jin, the best there is.
一千五 块， 行 不 行？yìqiān wǔ kuài, xíng bu xíngfifteen hundred, yes or no: one thousand five, the hundreds understood
别 吹牛！ 一千五 块， 行 不 行？bié chuīniú! yìqiān wǔ kuài, xíng bu xíngDon't brag! Fifteen hundred, yes or no?
便宜 没 好货。piányi méi hǎohuòcheap means no good goods, the answer to every low offer
大爷， 便宜 没 好货。dàye, piányi méi hǎohuòGrandpa, cheap means no good goods.
那 一千八 块， 成交？nà yìqiān bā kuài, chéngjiāoThen eighteen hundred: deal?

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