VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)(S/W/R)

Are you addicted to your cell phone? How can we have healthy lives and not be addicted to our phones?

1. I were was so busy during this week that I didn’t have time to finished the homework.
2. It’s obvious that Jay is popular in China because many people like him.
3. I have many friends who are come from Guangdong and both of them have a Guangdong accent when they are talk about something with me.
4. Mandarin is the official language in/of China but there are lots of local languages/dialects in different places, such as Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese ect.
5. Chinese people usually use simplified Chinese characters besides where as Hongkongnese and Taiwanese use traditional characters.
6. I can understand much of Shanghainese but I can’t understand the slang.
7.I wanted to changed my Canton accent so I listened to my classmate carefully when they were talked/spoke with others.

Grammar

Very often, you don’t need to use 2 VERBS – just use 1.

e.g. when they are talk about something v. when they talk about something

“Mandarin is the official language of China”.

e.g. China’s official language is Mandarin.

e.g. The official language of China is Mandarin.

e.g. Mandarin is the official language of China.

e.g. In China, Mandarin is the official language.

I live in Shanghai 5 or 6 years / I have lived in Shanghai for 5 or 6 years

Pronunciation

dialect / DIE-UH-LECKT

trip /

Vocabulary

to be addicted / 上瘾

to subscribe (verb) / is to follow someone on Youtube or any other type of media like a magazine and every time they make a new video – Youtube shows me this video first / subscriptions (noun)

conversation / 谈话 / the discussion between two people

e.g. Hermia and Nicholas had a very friendly conversation.

replace / 代替 / to choose a different product

e.g. Many Chinese people are replacing their iPhones with Huawei.

to take the lead / imagine you are in a race, the person that is “in the lead” is in first place, so if you take the lead, you were not in first place but now you are in first place – you are now the “leader”.

e.g. Sometimes you are walking with friends and someone has to take the lead so others can follow and know where to go. This is the person who makes the decisions.

e.g. If someone says to you: “you can take the lead” this means you can be the leader.

age / how old you are

e.g. My age is 29 years old.

I didn’t notice / I didn’t see this / I didn’t realize/  看不出来 / 

e.g. I didn’t realize you were 30 years old – you don’t look 30!

e.g. You’re 30!? I didn’t realize that!

dialect / 方言/ it’s a local language – it’s the same language family but a different style – it has its own words and maybe its own accents

e.g. Shanghainese is a dialect of the Chinese language.

characters / English has letters, Chinese has characters or “little pictures”

e.g. In Taiwan they use traditional characters in their writing.

characters / the people in a TV show or a movie

e.g. Did you see The Green Book? It’s a great movie with two characters – one is a black man the other is a white man.

God / 上帝

social media / 社交媒体 / WeChat, Facebook, Weibo, QQ

e.g. Are you on social media?

philosophy / 哲学 / the study of life’s most difficult questions

e.g. What happens when we die? Who created the world? These are all questions that philosophy tries to answer.

philosopher / the person who studies philosophy

paparazzi / POP-UH-ROTS-SEE / 狗 仔 队

e.g. Hermia must be very careful when she leaves her home – she is so famous the paparazzi want to find her!

Maybe it was would be terrible when if I became famous – many people would knows me and I can’t wouldn’t be able to go out for free freely – maybe they would want to take photos with me and they don’t talk to me ask for my permission. Money can buy many things and I can use money to have a trip, or to travel – I can buy many things – I can buy things that what I like/I can buy whatever I like/I can buy anything that I like! And I can give money to my parents some money. So I think money is important for me.

I think social media has strength and weakness/there are positives and negatives/they are benefits and drawbacks – we stand/spend a lot of time on much time on the our phones someone people like to play games – someone people like to watch videos – and someone people  like to chat with others on social media – it wastes my time – games waste my time – when I have an app named Douyin when I open it I waste 3 hours on this app.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/10/us-spat-with-huawei-explained/?utm_term=.45094d05165e

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