LESSON NOTES

3-Minute Chinese S1 #7
Do You Speak English?

CONTENTS
2 Simplified Chinese
2 Traditional Chinese
2 Pinyin
2 English
3 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar
5 Cultural Insight

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 SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

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TRADITIONAL CHINESE

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PINYIN

1. n hu shu yngy ma?

2. n hu yngy ma?

3. sh de, w hu shu yngy.

4. b, w bhu shu yngy.

ENGLISH
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1. Do you speak English?

2. Do you speak English?

3. Yes, I speak English.

4. No, I don't speak English.

VOCABULARY

S implie d Tr aditional Pinyin English C lass

cannot phrase

can verb

to speak verb

n you pronoun

English noun

question marker particle

yes adverb

w I pronoun

b no privative, adverb

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Sh n ma? W jio Wng Ln.

Is it you? I am called Wang Lin.

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Xiw w b mng.

I'm not busy in the late afternoon.

GRAMMAR

In this lesson you will learn how to ask and answer the question Do you speak English?.

Register Thai Romanization English

n hu shu Do you speak

Phrase 1 formal yngy ma? English?

Word 1 n you

Word 2 hu can

Word 3 shu to speak

Word 4 yngy English

question
Word 5 ma marker

n hu yngy Do you speak

Phrase 2 informal ma? English?

Word 1 n you

Word 2 hu can

Word 3 yngy English

question
Word 4 ma marker

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 sh de, w hu Yes, I speak
Phrase 3
formal shu yngy . English.

Word 1 sh de yes

Word 2 w I

Word 3 hu can

Word 4 shu to speak

Word 5 yngy English

b, w bhu No, I don't

Phrase 4 formal shu yngy . speak English.

Word 1 b no

Word 2 w I

Word 3 bhu cannot

Word 4 shu to speak

CULTURAL INSIGHT

This question is useful not only for English, but for any language you may speak. More and
more Chinese people are studying foreign languages nowadays, so you may just get lucky!
Just substitute Yngy with
Ydly for Italian.
y for Russian.
Xbnyy for Spanish.
Dy for German.
or any other language you may speak.

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