Chinese is NOT HARD at all

Today I’m to teach you a few more popular ways of saying goodbye.
We learned a few last time… and there are other ways to say goodbye.
Now let’s check Key words of the day!

Today we’ll learn a few more popular expressions of saying goodbye.

***************** Key words of the day
我走了／打扰了，我走了。 wǒ zǒu le ／dǎ rǎo le ，wǒ zǒu le 。

哪里，您慢走。／以后再来啊。nǎ lǐ ，nín màn zǒu 。／yǐ hòu zài lái ā
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If you want to show sincere thanks to your friend, you may add 打扰了 to 我走了。
打扰 means interruption or disturbance.
However, here it does not really means you’ve disturbed your friends.
Instead you are just expressing your thanks to them.
In the west, we will often apologize for troubling someone as a way of saying thank you.
But it is not that common anymore.
Mostly, we say sorry for disturbing you if we have actually disturbed them!

您, you. We learnt this last week. 您 is the polite form of saying “你”.
慢走, walk slowly, or take care on your way back home.
The pronunciation of 慢 is similar to that of the English word “man”, the fourth tone.
走, to walk.

***************Key Words Reminder:
我走了／打扰了，我走了。

哪里，您慢走。
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Well everyone, the question of the day:
What’s the reply to 我走了(wǒ zǒu le )?
Please make a sentence in pinyin, or English if you like.

Hello, every one. Time flies.
It’s time for us to review what we’ve learned.
We learnt very basic and useful sentences for saying thanks.
Let’s go over them now!



***************Sentences in the Week
谢谢你。Thank you. xiè xie nǐ



非常感谢。Thank you very much. fēi cháng gǎn xiè



不用谢。不客气。You are welcome. bú yòng xiè / bú kè qì
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Also we learnt a few popular expressions of saying goodbye.

***************Sentences in the Week
再见, goodbye.

一会儿见, see you later.

明天见, see you tomorrow.

保重, take care.

我走了／打扰了，我走了。

哪里，您慢走。Time for me to leave.／以后再来啊。
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Also learned a few more popular expressions of saying goodbye.

我走了。／打扰了，我走了。

打扰了，我走了。(dǎ ráo le, wǒ zǒu le. )
The reply should be 哪里，您慢走。

哪里 has the meaning of where.

Here it means that’s nothing.

And this is the reply to your thanks.

Usually the Chinese people would repeat by saying “哪里哪里”.

Lesson 009 Numbers from 0 to 5 in Chinese

I have a question for you. How many family members do you have?
There are 5.
So, that’s 五口人 in Chinese. wǔ kǒu rén

五wǔ is 5, the third tone. wǔ.



口kǒu is a measure word for people.

You know in Chinese there are lots of measure words for different nouns.



And 人rén means people.

So your family has 五口人, five people. wǔ kǒu rén

Could you please tell me how long have you been here, in Beijng?
3 years. 三年。

三sān is 3, and 年nián means year.

三年，three years.



How many years have you been in Dublin?

One year.
OK, in Chinese one year is 一年 。

Ok, we already have learned 1 3 4 5.

Then how about the two remaining numbers, 0 and 2?
0 is líng, second tone. líng

2 is èr, forth tone. èr.


Now we’ve learned all of the numbers from 0 to 5.

Let’s put them together.
They are: 0; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5.
0 1 2 3 4 5 (líng, yī, èr, sān, sì, wǔ).

Well. That’s it for today. One more thing, the question of the day:

How do you say three in Chinese? Your answer can be written in pinyin or the Chinese alphabet. Of course it would be perfect if you could write Chinese characters.
Well, class is over. 再见!