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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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| John, nǐ měitiān dōu dào xuéxiào qù ma? |
| John,你每天都到学校去吗﹖ |
| John, 你每天都到學校去嗎﹖
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| John, do you go to school every day? |
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| Bù yidìng. Wǒ xīngqī yī sān wǔ yǒu kè. |
| 不一定。我星期一三五有课。 |
| 不一定。我星期一三五有課。
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| Not really. I have class on Mondays, Wednesdays (and) Fridays. |
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| Xīngqīèr sì méiyou kè. |
| 星期二四没有课。 |
| 星期二四沒有課。
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| (I) don't have class on Tuesdays. |
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| Nǐ xīngqī yī yǒu shénme kè ne? |
| 你星期一有什么课呢﹖ |
| 你星期一有什麼課呢﹖
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| What class do you have on Mondays? |
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| Xīngqī yī yǒu lìshǐ kè, shèhuìxué kè. |
| 星期一有历史课﹐社会学课。 |
| 星期一有歷史課﹐社會學課。
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| (I) have history and sociology class on Mondays. |
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| Xīngqī sān ne? |
| 星期三呢﹖ |
| 星期三呢﹖
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| What about Wednesday? |
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| Xīngqī sān yǒu wénxué kè hé jīngjì kè. |
| 星期三有文学课和经济课。 |
| 星期三有文學課和經濟課。
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| (I) have literature and economics class on Wednesdays. |
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| Xīngqī wǔ shì zhèngzhìxué kè. |
| 星期五是政治学课。 |
| 星期五是政治學課。
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| (It) is political science on Fridays. |
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| Nǐ yībān jǐ diǎn dào xuéxiào qù? |
| 你一般几点到学校去﹖ |
| 你一般幾點到學校去﹖
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| What time do you go to scholl usually? |
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| Yībān jiǔ diǎn bàn qù, xiàwǔ sān-sì diǎnzhōng huíjiā. |
| 一般九点半去﹐下午三四点钟回家。 |
| 一般九點半去﹐下午三四點鐘回家。
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| (I) usually go to school at half past nine. (And) come back home at three (or) four in the afternoon. |
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| Xīngqī èr hé xīngqī sì zuò shénme ne? |
| 星期二和星期四作什么呢﹖ |
| 星期二和星期四作什麼呢﹖
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| What do you do on Tuesdays and Thursdays? |
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| Zài jiā xuéxí, huòzhě dào túshūguǎn qù kàn shū. |
| 在家学习﹐或者到图书馆去看书。 |
| 在家學習﹐或者到圖書館去看書。
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| (I) study at home or go to the library to read books. |
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| Notes |
- 'bù
yīdìng'
means 'not definitely'. It serves as an adverb, e.g. 'Tā
bù yīdìng
lái.'- He may or may not
come.
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