F2F Class Notes (Ally)

speaking

Vocabulary

haggle: jiang jia
ie. Krissa loves to haggle with children.

negotiate: jiang jia, tan pan
ie. You have to negotiate with your client.
ie. The TikTok deal is in the second round of negotiations.
ie. Can we negotiate the price?
ie. It’s 8000 non-negotiable./ Price is negotiable

complete: wancheng
ie. Is it completely different?

distract: (v) take away my attention now (from something more important)
ie. That distracts me from working.

influence: (v) ying xiang, effect
ie. My teacher influenced my study interests.
ie. My teacher’s influence (n) made me better.

treasure hunt: xun bao (n)

Grammar

tense – look at the V

only can -> can only

on-> specific date
ie. I don’t want to go there. (<— direction and location meaning included)
ie. I don’t want to go there today. (today = on this day)

2020/08/18
persuade 说服
Can we not break up? I’m trying to persuade my mother to buy you the big house you want！
recall 撤回v.；回忆起
If you don’t read the message in time, I will recall it.
complacent 自满的；满足的
Don‘t be complacent about what you have achieved now！
flatter 赞美；奉承
Don’t flatter me/(you should) Stop flattering and say what do you want to buy.
reply 回答
Why do you want to get a reply from my mouth?/need me to reply? Can’t you find the answer for yourself?
report 报告n./报道v.
I’ll show you my daily schedule but can you give me some personal space…
onions 洋葱
green onions 青葱
ginger 姜
seasoning 调味
Love is not all of life/everything in life/does not exist everywhere in life. it‘s scattered in our lives like seasoning，/Love is the seasoning that’s scattered in our lives, the onion that makes you cry, green onion that adds color, or the exciting ginger that stimulates challenge.
spices 调味料 powders 粉末
pepper seeds 辣椒籽
May I have some pepper powder/powdered black pepper? I’m physically allergic to the pepper seeds in the sauce.
none at all/not at all 一点也没有
flavor 滋味
raw 生的/未加工的
diet 饮食习惯
weight scale 体重秤
Natural and raw foods don‘t taste good, but if you can follow the diet, the number on the weight scale will obvious drop.

2020/08/22
accomplishment 成就
Don’t follow others. The greatest accomplishment in your life is to be yourself.
reproduce 再造；生殖
survive 生存v. survival 幸存；幸存者n.
selfish 自私的
In the future, selfish humans will kill a lot of people in order to leave good genes, and those who survive will not be lucky. They will be sent to the lab to produce smart kids for the rulers.
improvise/wing it 即兴表演
influence 影响
Stop singing! You will influence my improvisation performance！/You’re a distraction

A: My favorite shop isn‘t a physical shop, it’s a good online shop. It is a good space for me to find treasures. It’s a good place for me to go on a treasure hunt. I don’t like to go to physical stores to find pretty vintage things/for treasure hunting (n). So this online shop is my best choice. For others, maybe it’s only an second-hand deal app, but for me, it’s my magic box. I think you know now that it’s xian yu. No one else knows my secret guide，so they only can find a whole page of rubbish. But I have my own guide and I can find lots of interesting things. I always use the lowest price to buy goods/find the most amazing deals. For example, I want to buy a pair of shoes, but maybe these shoes were made in 2007/were launched in 2007 and they’re not being produced anymore. But I can find the near-new/almost-new ones on Xianyu and just pay a little money for them.
The reason I can do this is maybe these shoes on today have high price/I can do this because may, even though these shoes are expensive today,  10 years ago，they’re just ordinary shoes and you can buy/get them at any counter. So a lot of people don’t know that these are a special style today, they only bought these shoes for the brand/because they liked the brand. And a couple of years later，they think that these shoes are too old so they want to sell them now.
Because this is the online second-hand market, we can’t speak/talk/deal face to face, so I always ask them “Can you give me more discount”. If we deal offline/negotiate offline, I will pay the full price because I’m too shy to haggle.
Oh by the way，we can also do an auction on xianyu, and a lot of sellers/vendors do this for life/for a living，we call them“Professional sellers”. They offered a starting price of 1 CNY at the auction，and everyone can give their dream price. Recently, I joined an auction and got a bape shirt that has a long history. I don’t see this one on the market.

Pronunciation

greatest – grea-te-st  “no errrs”

price – “I”

pain – “A”