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Learning Days of the Week in Chinese

This document discusses learning the days of the week in Mandarin Chinese. It provides the vocabulary for the days of the week from Monday to Sunday in Mandarin. Example sentences are given to practice using the days of the week, times, and mentioning arrival dates in different cities. Key points covered include: 1) The words for Monday to Saturday follow a numeric pattern, while Sunday is said differently 2) Examples are given to ask and answer questions about arrival dates using days of the week 3) Days are counted using "tian" without a classifier, as in "two days is liang tian"

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Learning Days of the Week in Chinese

This document discusses learning the days of the week in Mandarin Chinese. It provides the vocabulary for the days of the week from Monday to Sunday in Mandarin. Example sentences are given to practice using the days of the week, times, and mentioning arrival dates in different cities. Key points covered include: 1) The words for Monday to Saturday follow a numeric pattern, while Sunday is said differently 2) Examples are given to ask and answer questions about arrival dates using days of the week 3) Days are counted using "tian" without a classifier, as in "two days is liang tian"

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what day is it today?

M: Huānyíng nǐ dào Xiànzài Xué Hànyǔ. Wǒ shì ML.


S: Dàjiā hǎo. Wǒ shì Stuart. Today is lesson 66.
S: ML, what shall we learn today? 今天我们要学什么？Jīntiān wǒmen yào xué
shénme?
M: The days of the week.
S: Hǎo zhúyì.
M: So listen carefully, and try to pick out the words for Monday, Tuesday, etc.
Stuart, what day is it today? 今天是星期几 jīntiān shì xīngqī jǐ?
S: Monday. 星 期 一 , Monday, xīngqīyī. So tomorrow is, 明 天 是 ， míngtiān
shìxīngqīèr.
M: Monday, xīngqīyī, Tuesday, xīngqī èr.
S: We know that yī èr is 1, 2. So I bet you can now say all the days of the week.
Try it with ML, starting from Monday, xīngqī yī. Zhǔnbei, kāishǐ.
M: xīngqī yī, xīngqīèr, xīngqī sān, xīngqīsì, xīngqīwǔ, xīngqī liù.
S: Hey, we’ve got up to xīngqī liù, xīngqī 6, Saturday. Where’s Sunday?
M: Sunday is a bit different. We say 星期日，or 星期天，xīngqīrì, xīngqī tiān,
yíyàng.
S: Now let’s look at the new words. Can you guess what xīngqī means? Dui le,
a xīngqī is a ‘week’. One week is 一个星期, say it, yī gè xīngqī.
M: Now try to say ‘two weeks’. Dui le. 两个星期, liǎng ge xīngqī.
S: Remember Sunday? Right. xīngqī rì or xīngqītiān.
M: 日 RI rì, th tone, rì, and 天 TIAN tiān, 1st tone, tiān, both mean ‘day’.
S: Good. Now to use these new words. Follow and repeat.
M: Stuart, 你哪天来的北京？nǐ něi tiān láide Běijīng?
S: 我星期一来的北京。wǒ xīngqīyī láide Běijīng.
M: What day did he come? Duìle, Monday, xīngqī yī. Tāxīngqīyī láide Běijīng.
S: Now, you guys at home, answer ML’s question, and tell her you arrived in
Guangzhou on Saturday.
M: 你哪天来的广州？nǐ něi tiān láide Guǎngzhōu?
S: And you replied, 我星期六来的广州。wǒ xīngqīliù láide Guangzhou.
M: Hén hǎo.
S: Let’s finish by combining the time and the day. ML will ask a question, and
you reply ‘I arrived at 10 Wednesday morning’
M: 你什么时候来的上海？nǐ shénme shíhòu láile Shànghǎi?
S: And you replied –
M: 我星期三上午十点来的上海。 wǒ xīngqīsān shàngwǔ shí diǎn láide Shànghǎi.
S: Ok, we’ve learnt how to say the days of the week, but if we want to say days,
five days or whatever, we always use tiān, and we don’t use a classifier. Two

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days is simply 两天 liǎng tiān, and 4 days is? Duìle. Sì tiān, sì tiān.
M: So what is ‘6 days’? Dui le. 六天 liù tiān. And 9 days? Dui le. 九天 jiǔ tiān.
S: Now it’s time to xiàkè. Zàijiàn!

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