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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

New Year's Eve Dumplings

Spend New Year's Eve in the Chens' kitchen: hear it's the night for dumplings, offer to help, hear Lan ask if you can make them, say that although you're a foreigner you can, hear you fold and she cooks, hear you fold them well, say your mother taught you, and hear Happy New Year.

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THE STORY

New Year's Eve in the Chens' kitchen in Longjing village, flour on the table, the television on in the next room and the whole family in.

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包 饺子。bāo jiǎozimake dumplings, word for word wrap dumplings
今天 除夕， 我们 包 饺子。jīntiān chúxī, wǒmen bāo jiǎoziIt's New Year's Eve today, we're making dumplings.
我 喜欢 吃 饺子！wǒ xǐhuan chī jiǎoziI love dumplings!
师母， 我 来 帮 您。shīmǔ, wǒ lái bāng nínMissus Wang, let me help you. Politely.
你 会 包 饺子 吗？nǐ huì bāo jiǎozi maCan you make dumplings? To a friend.
虽然 我 是 外国人。suīrán wǒ shì wàiguórénalthough I'm a foreigner
但是 我 会 包 饺子。dànshì wǒ huì bāo jiǎozibut I can make dumplings
虽然 我 是 外国人， 但是 我 会 包 饺子。suīrán wǒ shì wàiguórén, dànshì wǒ huì bāo jiǎoziAlthough I'm a foreigner, I can make dumplings.
好！ 那 你 包， 我 做 年夜饭。hǎo! nà nǐ bāo, wǒ zuò niányèfànGood! Then you fold, I'll make the New Year's Eve dinner. To a friend.
欧文， 你 包 得 真 好！ōuwén, nǐ bāo de zhēn hǎoOwen, you fold them really well! To a friend.

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