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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Tea Market in Menghai

Buy pu'er at the Menghai market: be asked raw or ripe, hear that you either buy ancient-tree or terrace, ask which year a cake is from, say ancient-tree is never this cheap, and taste before you talk.

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THE STORY

The tea market in Menghai, the town below the mountain, on a market day: stalls of cakes stacked to the roof, and a trader who has seen Owen coming.

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生 茶。shēng cháraw tea, the green kind
您好！ 生 茶 还是 熟 茶？nín hǎo! shēng chá háishi shú cháHello! Raw tea or ripe tea? Politely.
生 茶。 我 要 古 树 茶。shēng chá, wǒ yào gǔ shù cháRaw. I want ancient-tree tea.
要么 买 台地。yàome mǎi táidìor buy terrace, the tea of the low planted fields
要么 买 古 树， 要么 买 台地。yàome mǎi gǔ shù, yàome mǎi táidìEither you buy ancient-tree, or you buy terrace.
古 树 的。 哪 年 的？gǔ shù de, nǎ nián deAncient-tree. Which year is it from?
二 零 一 九 年 的。èr líng yī jiǔ nián defrom two thousand nineteen, digit by digit
二 零 一 九 年 的。 一 饼 三百 块。èr líng yī jiǔ nián de, yì bǐng sānbǎi kuàiFrom two thousand nineteen. Three hundred kuai a cake.
三百 块？ 古 树 没有 这么 便宜。sānbǎi kuài? gǔ shù méiyǒu zhème piányiThree hundred kuai? Ancient-tree is never this cheap.
您 懂 茶！ 这 饼 六百 块。nín dǒng chá! zhè bǐng liùbǎi kuàiYou know tea! This cake is six hundred. Politely.

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