VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

er / ir / ur – bird / her

thursday

Vocabulary

how are you? / how’s it going? / how’re you doing? – ni hao / ni zenme yang
5 – great / really good
4 – pretty good / good 
3 – not bad
2 – OK / fine – yi ban ban
1 – not great / not very good

it’s easy for me to forget 

direct / straight – zhi jie de
eg. I am a very direct man / I speak in a straight way

traditional – chuan tong
eg. my parents are very traditional, they want me to get married and have a baby

you never wanted to get married? 

I travel for business / I have (a lot of) business trips

this morning / this afternoon / this evening / tonight
yesterday morning / yesterday afternoon / yesterday evening / last night
tomorrow morning / tomorrow afternoon / tomorrow evening / tomorrow night

the first thing she said was “are you in shanghai?” 

hometown – lao jia

first tier 
second tier
eg. Shanghai is a first tier city

yue lai yue
more and more beautiful
older and older
younger and younger
taller and taller
better and better
longer and longer
lower and lower
higher and higher

economy is getting smaller and smaller = GDP going down

Gross Domestic Product = GDP

Great Barrier Reef 

practice – lian xi – “prack tisss”
eg. I practice English every day / I always forget the word practice

Pronunciation

L = ehl
W = double you

aaasss
aaazzz

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