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Learn Chinese 8 : I understand Chinese
| 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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| Wǒ shì Zhōngguó rén, huì shuō Hànyǔ. |
| 我是中国人﹐会说汉语。 |
| 我是中國人﹐會說漢語。
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| I am a Chinese and (I) can speak Chinese. |
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| Wǒ yě huì shuō Yīngyǔ. |
| 我也会说英语。 |
| 我也會說英語。
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| I can also speak English. |
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| Wǒ tīng de dǒng Yīngyǔ. |
| 我听得懂英语。 |
| 我聽得懂英語。
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| I (can listen and) understand English. |
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| Wǒ hái huì shuō yìdiǎr Rìyue. |
| 我还会说一点儿日语。 |
| 我還會說一點兒日語。
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| I can also speak a little Japanese. |
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| Kěshì wǒ Rìyǔ shuō de bú tài hǎo. |
| 可是我日语说得不太好。 |
| 可是我日語說得不太好。
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| But I don't speak Japanese well. |
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| Yàoshì shuō de kuài, wǒ jiù tīng bù dǒng. |
| 要是说得快﹐我就听不懂。 |
| 要是說得快﹐我就聽不懂。
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| If (someone) speaks fast, then I don't understand. |
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| Notes |
- 'Hànyǔ' and 'Zhōngwén'
are synonyms.
- 'tīng de dǒng' is a 'V+de+resultative' pattern which can be used to express the ability. There is no counterpart in English. It means: listen and understand. 'tīng bù dǒng' means that although someone listened, he can't understand.
- 'kěshì' means 'but'.
- 'yàoshì...jiù...' is a pair of conjuction words which indicates the condition: If...then....
Examples:
Yàoshì tā shuō de kuài, wǒ jiù tīng bù dǒng.
If he speaks fast, then I can't understand.
Yàoshì tā shuō de màn, wǒ jiù tīng de dǒng.
If he speaks slowly, then I can understand. |
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