Intermediate - Children's Train Ticket

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March 22, 2013, 07:02 AM posted in Transcripts with Tal

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March 22, 2013, 06:58 AM

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John: Hey guys, this is ChinesePod, I'm John, Intermediate lesson.

Dilu: 大家好,我是Dilu。你现在听到的是中级课程。

John: In today's lesson, we're going to talk about train tickets.

Dilu: 是的。我们今天要去买火车票。

John: Train tickets, haven't we done this lesson before?

Dilu: 我们这一次买的票不太一样。

John: So we're going to buy a special kind of ticket in this dialog.

Dilu: 这是一种高铁票。

John: 高铁. So is that 'high iron'? Is that an elevated railway?

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March 22, 2013, 07:05 AM

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0:34

Dilu: 不是不是。这个高是指高速的意思。

John: So 'high speed rail'.

Dilu: 没错。高速铁路的票。

John: So that's usually just called ...

Dilu: 高铁。

John: 1st tone, 3rd tone.

Dilu: 没错。第一声和第三声。

John: So listen into this specialized train ticket lesson. Here we go.

0:54 - Dialog

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March 22, 2013, 07:30 AM

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March 22, 2013, 07:30 AM

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1:53

John: So what kind of tickets is this guy trying to buy?

Dilu: 是两张十八号去南京的高铁票。

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March 22, 2013, 07:32 AM

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2:01

John: Hold on, that's a lot of information. So first of all we heard the measure word for tickets.

Dilu: 对。张。第一声。

John: And how many?

Dilu: 两张。

John: So if we were to make this simple, its two ... what?

Dilu: 两张票。两张火车票。

John: So two train tickets. But we know its the high speed rail. So how do we say that?

Dilu: 高铁票。两张高铁票。

John: Remember 高铁 is 1st tone and 3rd tone.

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March 22, 2013, 07:36 AM

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Dilu: 是的。我们刚刚又说过就是high speed rail。

John: OK. So we know that its two high speed rail tickets, but now we also want to add in that they go to 南京 on the 18th.

Dilu: 那就是:十八号去南京。十八号去南京的高铁票。

John: So altogether?

Dilu: 我要两张十八号去南京的高铁票。

John: And then more details. What kind of tickets are they?

Dilu: 一张成人的,一张儿童的。

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March 22, 2013, 07:42 AM

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3:01

John: 成人, two 2nd tones, that means 'adult'.

Dilu: 没错。两个第二声。成人。

John: Now we have 成人的. What is this 的 doing exactly?

Dilu: 后面省略了一个'票'。成人的票。

John: OK, so you can drop that 票.

Dilu: 是的。

John: So one for an adult, and the other one is ...

Dilu: 儿童的。一张儿童的。

John: 儿童 - that's also two 2nd tones.

Dilu: 没错。也是两个第二声。

John: OK. So that's 'child'. So the word for 'adult' is ...

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March 22, 2013, 07:48 AM

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Dilu: 成人。

John: And the word for 'child'.

Dilu: 儿童。

John: Are these formal?

Dilu: 对。这两个词比较正式一些,那在课文后面我们会看到'大人'和'孩子'。那这个就是比较口语的说法。

John: So 大人 - 'big person' - that means 'an adult'.

Dilu: 对。

John: In a more informal way.

Dilu: 是的。

John: And then 孩子 of course is 'child'. So 儿童 is kind of formal.

Dilu: 要记住比较formal的说法,就是成人和儿童。

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March 22, 2013, 07:54 AM

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John: So when you buy tickets, you're going to see these words.

Dilu: 对。

John: Got it. So then the ticket seller asks about the child.

Dilu: 他说:孩子多大了?孩子多大了?

John: So 'how old is the child?' Now there's a 了 here, kind of like 'how old is the child now?' Does that 了 have to be there?

Dilu: 你可以不用加。你可以说:孩子多大?

John: And then in the response we see 四岁半.

Dilu: 对。

John: And there's no 了 there. So you could put it there, or you could drop it.

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March 22, 2013, 08:00 AM

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4:32

Dilu: 两个都可以。四岁半了,或者四岁半。

John: Its kind of like 'the child is four and a half now', 'the child is four and a half', is basically the same thing.

Dilu: 但是后面那句话的'了'一定要加。

John: So which sentence do we have to add the 了 in?

Dilu: 超过一米二了吗?超过一米二了吗?

John: 超过 - that means 'to exceed'.

Dilu: 对。

John: What are the tones?

Dilu: 第一声和第四声。超过。