M: Dajia hao. Huan ying dao Xianzai Xue Hanyu. Wo shi ML.

S: Nimen hao, wo shi S. Now to study, hao hao xue xi. Repeat everything.

M: Stuart, what lesson do we learn today? 今天我们学第几课, jin tian women xue di ji ke?

S: Jin tian women xue di si shi wu ke, di si shi wu ke.

M: 没错, not wrong, mei cuo! Lesson 45, di si shi wu ke.

S: Now, now repeat everything, new words and all. Try to pick out the new words. I’m very hungry. 我非常饿, wo feichang e.

M: 好，我们吃饭去, women chi fan qu.

S: 好主意, good idea, hao zhuyi.

M: Which restaurant? 我们去哪个餐馆, women qu nei ge canguan?

S: You say. 你说, ni shuo.

M: Do you like Chinese food? 你喜欢中餐吗, ni xihuan zhongcan ma?

S: Chinese food, western food, I like everything. 中餐，西餐，我都喜欢, zhongcan, xican, wo dou xihuan.

M: 我们吃中餐，好不好, women chi zhongcan, hao bu hao?

S: 很好， 我很喜欢中餐, wo hen xihuan zhongcan.

M: 好，我们走吧, women zou ba.

S: Now the new words. 我们吃饭去, women chi fan qu.

M: Which restaurant? 我们去哪个餐馆, women qu nei ge canguan? 哪个 NEI GE nei ge, means ‘which’. Say it, nei ge, nei ge.

S: 餐CAN can, means ‘food’. 馆GUAN guan, means ‘house’ or ‘hall’. It’s the same guan as in hotel, bin’guan. So canguan means? Duile, restaurant, say it, canguan, canguan. Good, now say, ‘what restaurant shall we go to?’

M: Dui le. 我们去哪个餐馆, women qu nei ge canguan?

S: And I replied. 你说, ni shuo. Literally, ‘you say’. So ni shuo here means, ‘you decide’, ‘up to you’. So ML asked me …

M: 你喜欢中餐吗, ni xihuan zhongcan ma? 喜欢 XI HUAN xihuan, 3rd tone 1st tone, try it, and imagine really liking something, xihuan xihuan means ‘to like’.

S: Now you can say, ‘I like you，I really like you’. Don’t be embarrassed, try it. Dui le, 我喜欢你, wo hen xihuan ni. Very romantic.

M: And Stuart said. Chinese food, western food, I like everything. zhongcan, xican, wo dou xihuan.

S: Zhong, same zhong as in zhongguo and zhongwen. So, zhongcan is? Dui le. Chinese food. Zhongcan.

M: 西餐 xi XI means west. So, xican, western food. xican, xican.

S: Chinese food, western food, I like everything. Say it. Zhongcan, xican, wo dou xihuan. Zhongcan, xican, wo dou xihuan.

M: Now its gongke, homework time.

S: Practice saying, with feeling, wo xihuan ni. And, do you like me? Ni xixuan wo ma?

M: Then say out loud all the variations of ‘I, we, he etc like Western food’, then the same with ‘Chinese food’. Then the negative, ‘they bu xihuan don’t like’ etc etc.

S: And also practice, ‘what restaurant are we/you/ they going to?’

M: You can say, nei ge canguan, or, 什么shenme canguan. 一样, the same, yi yang.

S: So, Haohao xuexi. Zaijian.