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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

West Lake in the Heat

Walk West Lake in the heat with your mother and Lan: say it's getting hotter and hotter, pass on what the flowers are, relay that she has you ask where there's something iced, and say she can't walk any further.

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THE STORY

The causeway at West Lake on a September afternoon, lotus leaves to the horizon, Owen's mother under a borrowed umbrella between Owen and Lan.

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越来越 热 了。yuèláiyuè rè lehotter and hotter
今天 越来越 热 了。 阿姨 还 好 吗？jīntiān yuèláiyuè rè le, āyí hái hǎo maIt's getting hotter and hotter today. Is Auntie all right?
她 说 还 好。 她 问 这 是 什么 花。tā shuō hái hǎo, tā wèn zhè shì shénme huāShe says she's fine. She asks what this flower is.
荷花。 夏天 开 的。héhuā, xiàtiān kāi deLotus. They bloom in summer.
荷花， 漂亮！héhuā, piàoliangLotus, pretty!
哪里 有 冰 的。nǎli yǒu bīng dewhere is there something iced, word for word where have ice of
她 让 我 问 哪里 有 冰 的。tā ràng wǒ wèn nǎli yǒu bīng deShe has me ask where there's something iced.
坐 一下 吧。zuò yíxià baLet's sit a moment.
那里 有。 走 五 分钟。nàli yǒu, zǒu wǔ fēnzhōngOver there. Five minutes' walk.
走 不 动 了。zǒu bu dòng lecan't walk any further, word for word walk not move, changed

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