Intermediate - Children's Train Ticket
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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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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.
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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 AM2:30-3:00
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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 AM3:00-3:30
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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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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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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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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。
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