Mandarin Classes Lesson Nineteen - Negotiating
Mandarin Classes - Lesson Nineteen PDF
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In Lesson 19 of Mandarin Classes blog, we learn Mandarin from two skilled (?) negotiators. Ankun is busy watching the windows in the same building as the massage parlor and Lin Dong asks him to come up to the roof to talk. They then negotiate (by drawing out charts with rocks) how much Lin Dong should pay for the baby and the “psychology distress fee”.
For the PDF, you will see in the english to pinyin section some really useful Chinese words that you may not have learned yet in other mandarin language courses:
上来 = shang4lai2 = come up. 上来说话 = shang4lai2 shuo1hua4 = come up and talk
血型 = xue4xing2 or xie3xing2 = blood type
损失 = sun3shi1 = loss
亲子鉴定 = qin1zi3 jian4ding4 = DNA test, paternity test
承认 = cheng2ren4 = admit
一码事 = yi1 ma3 shi4 = one MW issue (MW = measure word)
逻辑 = luo2ji = logic. Easy to remember!
答应 = da1ying = promise
先前 = xian1qian2 = earlier (Earlier, you said…)
提这个 = ti2 zhe4 ge = bring this (up). As in “why do you have to bring this up?”
