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Survival Chinese Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Most common words
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Okay, so there's another neat little feature about Chinese here. Do you remember Mark? Mark was a variable question mark, and we put it at the end. Now you're going to actually be introduced to a few more of those, which don't necessarily mean a question mark, but maybe a suggestive thing, like, let's go or like this one, which is not. And just like the map, it will be put at the end of the sentence. And just like the map will twist and turn the centers and make it into something else.

So in this case, it replaces the English expression of like saying, how about So for instance, if everyone goes out and Felix is sitting alone, and someone comes in and goes, how about Felix is Felix not joining and they go, huh? We don't want Felix here drink asked a question. Anyways, that would be Felix. Nah. Okay. So whatever you want to say or whoever it's about, you say that person's name.

And then you say no, and you could cook fantastic. So why would we learn that one? No. Well, because it's useful if Felix is lonely sometimes But also, because if we talk in in a conversation, like the most common conversation that we've just been going through, then we could add a note there as well like saying, How are you? I'm fine. And you so and you would say you as in need.

And they would say no, Nina, how about you, Nina? It's quite funny because it sounds very much like Nina. So if you want to say, How about you, Nina? It'll be Nina Nina. Note that we don't say Nina. We say no, it's an O sound.

Let's make sure that gets into the microphone hear me Not me. Not fantastic. Okay, so how about you Nina? Nina, Nina. So as opposed to English where a word can have an unlimited number of syllables. In Chinese.

There's always just one, which makes it maybe the sounds are a bit typical, but it still makes it quite easy to remember because you just have to remember one tiny little sound so much easier, isn't it? Yeah, ma, ma ha you know, haha by the way

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