Intermediate - Play Area For Kids

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Greg: Hey everyone, you're listening to an Intermediate lesson on ChinesePod, my name is Greg.

Connie: Hello，大家好，我是 Connie.

Greg. Hi Connie, so what are we talking about today?

Connie: 今天我们要［个一个］小朋友去儿童乐园玩儿。

Greg: 儿童乐园。A play area or a playground.

Connie: 是的。儿童乐园。

Greg: Let's listen.

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Greg: We've got a dialog with a grandmother and her grandson.

Connie: 是的。

Greg: In the first line we hear the grandmother talking to her little grandson.

Connie: 儿童乐园到了。

Greg: This is the word that we introduced in the beginning. 儿童乐园。This 园 at the end is the same as a character we've learned before.

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Connie: 公园的园。

Greg: The same 园 from 'park'.

Connie: 就是这个园里有很多好玩的东西。

Greg: There's a lot of fun stuff to do in this park. Next ... what does the grandson want to do first?

Connie: 他想滑滑梯。

Greg: That's h-u-a, 2nd tone, t-i, 1st tone. This is the verb and the object together. So how do you say 'to slide down the slide' one more time?

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Connie: 滑滑梯。

Greg: Slide down a slide. Can we also say 玩？

Connie: 可以啊。你可以说：玩滑梯。

Greg: So you can also say 'play on the slide'. Good. Next the grandmother tells her grandson to do what?

Connie: 然后小朋友排队。

Greg: 排队。P-a-i, 2nd tone, d-u-i, 4th tone, and this means 'to line up'.

Connie: 在中国，排队很重要。

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Greg: Is that so?

Connie: 对。

Greg: I disagree. Well its important, but people tend not to follow that rule very well.

Connie: ［哪有］现在都要排队。

Greg: Maybe in 上海。上海 is OK. Outside there's still some learning that needs to be done. Next the grandson wants to go. What does he say?

Connie: 奶奶，我去了。

Greg: 我去了。There's a 了 here, what does this 了 function as?

Connie: 就是说：我要去了。

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Greg: I'm going to go play.

Connie: 我要去玩了。I'm going to go play. Can we have some other examples of where this 了 is used in a similar fashion.

Connie: 比如说：我走了。

Greg: I'm leaving - I'm going to leave NOW.

Connie: 或者跟你的妈妈说：我去睡了。

Greg: I'm going to bed. Good. So that's how this 了 is used. What does the grandmother tell her grandson after this?

Connie: 去吧，一个一个滑。

Greg: 一个一个滑。One at a time, one by one.

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Connie: One by one. 一个一个。So go down one by one, don't try to cut in line.

Connie: 对。

Greg: OK.

Connie: 要有顺序。

Greg: You need to go in order. Where else can we use this phrase?

Connie: 你也可以说：一个一个说。

Greg: Speak one by one, don't all speak at once.

Connie: 有很多人，大家都想说。那一个一个说。

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Greg: When there's a bunch of people and they all want to talk at the same time, you have to speak one at a time. She also tells her grandson not to fight with other kids.

Connie: 不要跟别的小朋友抢。

Greg: 抢, q-i-a-n-g, 3rd tone.

Connie: 抢。

Greg: And this means to fight with or fight over something. So its actually fighting over the slide. How would we say that more specifically?