VIP Class Notes (Jesse)
Next Class Focus
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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