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Apartment Hunting

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ID: 0086 Pre Intermediate
So, you’ve hit the pavement looking for your flat. The real estate agent is suitably impressed with your Chinese, but what happens when he starts talking about all those rooms? Come along on this lesson and have a Mandarin Chinese tour of your potential apartment. Remember, you’ve only just begun. By the time you look at your 52nd apartment, you’ll have all these new words down pat.
Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
介绍 jièshào to introduce
间 jiān [measure word]
厨房 chúfáng kitchen
旁边 pángbiān beside
你来看房吗我给你介绍一下
nǐ 你lái 来kàn 看fáng 房ma 吗wǒ 我gěi 给nǐ 你jièshào 介绍yīxià 一下
Are you coming to see the house? Let me introduce it to you.
好的
hǎo de 好的
OK.
这间是厨房旁边是卫生间这间是客厅客厅后面是卧室你觉得这房子怎么样
zhè 这jiān 间shì 是chúfáng 厨房pángbiān 旁边shì 是wèishēngjiān 卫生间zhè 这jiān 间shì 是kètīng 客厅kètīng 客厅hòumian 后面shì 是wòshì 卧室nǐ 你juéde 觉得zhè 这fángzi 房子zěnmeyàng 怎么样
This is the kitchen. Next to it is the toilet. This is the living room and the bedroom is behind it. How do you feel about the house?
还可以不过卫生间小了一点客厅暗了一点
hái kěyǐ 还可以bùguò 不过wèishēngjiān 卫生间xiǎo 小le 了yīdiǎn 一点kètīng 客厅àn 暗le 了yīdiǎn 一点
It's OK. I think the toilet is a little bit small and the living room is a little bit dark.
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