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Learn Chinese 11 : What day (date) is it today?
| Click on the speaker icon of each sentence and listen to the recording. Each sentence follows this pattern : Pinyin (that's Chinese written in Latin characters), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and the English translation of the sentence.
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| Yì nián yǒu sānbǎi liùshíwǔ tiān. |
| 一年有三百六十五天。 |
| 一年有三百六十五天。
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| There are 365 days in a year. |
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| Yī ge yuè yǒu sānshí tiān huòzhě sānshí yī tiān. |
| 一个月有三十天或者三十一天。 |
| 一個月有三十天或者三十一天。
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| There are 30 or 31 days in a month. |
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| Kěshì èr yuè zhǐ yǒu èrshíbā tiān huòzhě èrshíjiǔ tiān. |
| 可是二月只有二十八天或者二十九天。 |
| 可是二月只有二十八天或者二十九天。
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| But there are only 28 or 29 days in February. |
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| Yí gè yuè yǒu sì ge xīngqī huòzhě wǔ ge xīngqī. |
| 一个月有四个星期或者五个星期。 |
| 一個月有四個星期或者五個星期。
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| There are four or five weeks in a month. |
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| Yī ge xīngqī yǒu qī tiān. |
| 一个星期有七天。 |
| 一個星期有七天。
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| There are seven days in a week. |
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| Xīngqī yī dào xīngqī wǔ shì gōngzuò rì. |
| 星期一到星期五是工作日。 |
| 星期一到星期五是工作日。
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| Monday through Friday are week days (working days). |
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| Xīngqī liù shì zhōumò. |
| 星期六是周末。 |
| 星期六是週末。
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| Saturday is weekend. |
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| Xīngqī tiān yě jiào lǐbài tiān, yīnwèi hěn duō rén dào jiàotáng qù zuò lǐbài. |
| 星期天也叫礼拜天﹐因为很多人到教堂去做礼拜。 |
| 星期天也叫禮拜天﹐因為很多人到教堂去做禮拜。
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| Sunday is also called worship day, because many people go to church to have (Sunday) service. |
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| Notes |
- 'huòzhě'
[or] is used in affirmative senteces only. In a question, 'háishì'
is used.
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