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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Grandmother Yu's Welcome

Arrive at a Bulang family's house: meet Yan Wen's grandmother, be given roasted tea, hear that the Bulang all drink it this way, and hear that the tree outside is said to be a thousand years old and that the caravans once passed here.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

A wooden house in a Bulang village on the mountain, late in the afternoon: Yan Wen at the door, his grandmother by the fire with a clay pot, and a huge old tea tree outside.

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欧文， 这 是 我 奶奶。ōuwén, zhè shì wǒ nǎinaiOwen, this is my grandmother.
奶奶 好！ 我 是 欧文。nǎinai hǎo! wǒ shì ōuwénHello, Grandmother! I'm Owen.
烤 茶。kǎo chároasted tea
欢迎！ 来， 喝 烤 茶。huānyíng! lái, hē kǎo cháWelcome! Come, have roasted tea.
您 太 客气 了。nín tài kèqi leYou're too kind. Politely.
烤 茶？ 茶 也 可以 烤 吗？kǎo chá? chá yě kěyǐ kǎo maRoasted tea? Tea can be roasted too?
布朗族。bùlǎngzúthe Bulang people, one of the tea peoples of the mountains
我们 布朗族 都 这样 喝。wǒmen bùlǎngzú dōu zhèyàng hēWe Bulang all drink it this way.
那 棵 树 有 一千 年 了。nà kē shù yǒu yìqiān nián lethat tree is a thousand years old, word for word that tree has thousand years
据说 那 棵 树 有 一千 年 了。jùshuō nà kē shù yǒu yìqiān nián leIt's said that tree is a thousand years old.

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