Lesson 030 I’m Waiting for A Friend.

S: 朋友们,你们好! 我是Stuart.
M: Wo shi ML. 欢迎来到Learn Chinese Now. Let's not waste time. 我们不要浪费时间. women bu yao langfei shijian. Repeat everything, and, yi er san. Kaishi!
S: Now listen for the Chinese for ‘tell' and ‘friends'.
M: Stuart, please tell our friends what time it is. 请告诉我们的朋友们, 现在是几点钟. Qing gaosu women de pengyoumen xianzai shi jidian zhong.
S: 朋友们,现在是六点. Pengyoumen, xianzai shi liu dian.
M: Please tell our friends wher we are now. 请告诉我们的朋友们现在我们在哪儿.
S: 朋友们，现在我们在我的房间. Pengyoumen, xianzai women zai wo de fangjian.
M: We're waiting for a friend. 我们在等一个朋友. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: Then we'll go to the bar. 然后我们去酒吧。Ranhou women qu jiuba. Wo hen gaoxing.
M: Ok, Stuart, first we have to check the new words.
S: Ok. Let's not waste time. 我们不要浪费时间
M: women bu yao langfei shijian. Bu yao, literally ‘not want', bu yao. But it actually means "don't". Langfei LANGFEI langfei, to ‘waste'. Shijian SHIJIAN shijian, is ‘time'.
S: So, pengyoumen, try to say, with no help from us, ‘waste time'. … Dui le, langfei shijian. Langfei shijian.
M: Now try, let's not waste time…….. Hen hao. Women bu yao lang fei shijian. 再来一次. once again. Zai lai yi ci. Women bu yao lang fei shijian.
S: And did you catch how we say ‘friends'? Right. Pengyoumen, pengyoumen.
M: Now, if ‘we' is women, and ‘I' is wo, if ‘they' is tamen, and ‘he' or ‘she' is ta, and if pengyoumen means ‘friends', then how do we say ‘friend'? Right, pengyou, PENGYOU, pengyou, 2nd tone, 3rd tone, pengyou. Say it, pengyou, pengyou.
S: Hen hao. Now, do you remember ML saying?
M: And we're waiting for a friend. 我们在等一个朋友. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: And do you remember, way back in lesson 1, that we told you Chinese has lots of classifiers, like head of cattle, wher ‘head' is the classifier? And how we always say, one ge person, or three ge persons. By the way, you can also call classifiers ‘measure words', same idea.
M: Well, we've already used ge. Remember 打个电话，make a phone call, da ge dianhua. Well, the ge here is the measure word for ‘phone call'.
S: Now listen again to ML say, ‘we're waiting for a friend'.
M: 我们在等一个朋友. Women zai deng yi ge pengyou.
S: There's the ge again. Can you guess how to say ‘three friends"?
M: Dui le. 三个朋友. San ge pengyou.
S: And four friends?
M: Right. 四个朋友,si ge pengyou.
S: Five friends.
M: 五个朋友 wu ge pengyou.
S: Enough, enough! 够了,够了! That's enough friends.
M: So, pengyoumen, see you tomorrow. 明天见.
S: Mingtian jian