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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Samples and Grades

Taste the samples with Mei and her mother: hear top grade and first grade, ask which is which, hear taste first and then talk, pick out the more fragrant one, hear the two prices, and order twenty jin.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

The table in the Wu family's front room on a May afternoon, two white dishes of dry leaves, two glasses, and a kettle just off the boil.

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特级 和 一级。tèjí hé yìjítop grade and first grade
欧文， 这 是 样品， 特级 和 一级。ōuwén, zhè shì yàngpǐn, tèjí hé yìjíOwen, these are the samples: top grade and first grade.
哪个 是 特级？nǎge shì tèjíWhich is the top grade?
一级 也 很 好。yìjí yě hěn hǎoThe first grade is very good too.
先 尝尝 再 说。xiān chángchang zài shuōTaste first, then talk.
先 看 再 买。xiān kàn zài mǎiLook first, then buy.
这 是 特级 吧？zhè shì tèjí bathis is the top grade, right?
这个 更 香！ 这 是 特级 吧？zhège gèng xiāng! zhè shì tèjí baThis one's more fragrant! This is the top grade, right?
对！ 特级 一 斤 八百 块。duì! tèjí yì jīn bābǎi kuàiRight! Top grade is eight hundred a jin.
一级 呢？yìjí neAnd the first grade?

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