Lesson 16: Making Appointment
In the modern society, making appointment is an important procedure while conducting businesses. Most of the appointments are made via telephone today. This lesson will use a simple telephone dialog to teach the basic elements of making an appointment in Chinese.
Vocabulary:
| Chinese Character | Pinyin | Pronunciation | English Translation | |
| 告诉 | gào sù | tell, announce, inform | ||
| 告 | gào | tell, announce, inform; accuse | ||
| 诉 | sù | accuse; sue; inform; narrate | ||
| 消息 | xiāo xi | information, message, news | ||
| 消 | xiāo | vanish, die out; melt away | ||
| 息 | x ī;xí | rest, put stop to, end, cease | ||
| 找到 | zhǎo dào | discover, found | ||
| 找 | zhǎo | search, seek, look for; find | ||
| 到 | dào | go to, arrive, been to | ||
| 工作 | gōng zuò | job, employment, work | ||
| 工 | gōng | labor, work; worker, laborer | ||
| 作 | zuò | make; work; compose, write; act | ||
| 太 | tài | very, too, much; big; extreme | ||
| 恭喜 | gōng xǐ | congratulation | ||
| 恭 | gōng | respectful, polite, reverent | ||
| 请 | qǐng | ask, request; invite; please | ||
| 行 | xíng | go; walk; move, travel; circulate | ||
| 呀 | yā | used to express surprise | ||
| 平时 | píng shí | at ordinary times, normally | ||
| 平 | píng | flat, level, even; peaceful | ||
| 都 | dōu | metropolis, capital; all, the whole | ||
Tips:
- In conversational Chinese, when a portative or a quantifiers is used (e.g. "个" , "块", "堆", "只"), and the amount of the object is one, the word "one" = "yi" = "一“ is of neglected.
Dialog:
Click to hear the above dialog.
English Translation:
I have a good news for you! I got a job!
Really? Great! Congratulations!
Let me treat you a dinner? Ok?
Sure! Thank you!
Do you like Chinese food or American food?
I eat American food everyday, how about some Chinese?
Ok! How's 7:30 tonight?
Sure! No problem!
Then see you tonight!
Good bye!
Chinese Calligraphy:
周 末 喜 欢 打 球 电 视 唱 歌 跳 舞 听 音 乐 怎 样
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