VIP Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

How many syllables does that have?

Can you tell me about yourself?

I’m 48 years old

I like traveling

I’m in charge of financial affairs.

I’m a manager

I’m a financial manager.

Can you make it bigger?

Syllable – yin jie, how many sounds are in a word

eg: Pronunciation has five syllables.

eg: Cat has one syllable.

eg: How many syllables are there?

A kind of… – yi zhong, it is part of a bigger thing

eg: PingTan is a kind of music.

eg: The PiPa is a kind of guitar. It is like a guitar.

It is like… – similar to, or almost the same

Its like a guitar.  (Xiang)

I like guitar. (Xi huan)

I like listening to Pingtan music.

instrument – a thing you can use to play music

eg: A guitar, is a string instrument.

eg: Guitars have five strings.

eg: The Pipa has 4 strings, it is like a guitar.

manager – a person in charge of something

eg: I’m a manager.

Pronunciation

Instrument – In   Struh  Ment

The – Thhhhhhh      uh    Thuh     Dtha

A lot of – Uh  La-Dduv’

Until – En t’ i(f) l(e)     En Te (i) Le       We have class until 2:20 (Two Twenty) (Twen(t)ny)

both of us – Bo Thu Vus   Both of us like eating.