S: Dajia hao, wo shi Stuart.

M: 今天我们学第五十一课di wu shi yi ke. We’re ordering food. Can’t use our fingers, suoyi, so we’d better learn things like ‘chopsticks’, and ‘bowl’.

S: ML wants to order – would you believe – eight dishes, ba ge cai.

M: Tian a, I forgot! 我忘了 wo wang le. We also want a soup. 我们还要一个汤, women hai yao yi ge tang.

S: So we need to use spoons. 所以，我们要用勺子, women yao yong shaozi.

M: And bowls. 我们还要用碗, women hai yao yong wan.

S: 我们吃中餐. So we need chopsticks, 所以我们要用筷子, women yao yong kuaizi.

M: We don’t use a knife and fork. 我们不用刀叉, women bu yong dao cha.

S: But you can if you want.

S: Now to go over the new stuff. We want a soup. 我们要一个汤.

M: Women yao yi ge tang. Women yao, we want, women yao. Yi ge tang, tang TANG tang, is ‘soup’. Women yao yi ge tang.

S: 所以，我们要用勺子.

M: Suoyi, women yao yong shaozi. 用YONG yong, is to ‘use’, yong. 勺子 SHAO ZI shaozi, ‘spoon’, shaozi. So we want to use spoons, suoyi, women yao yong shaozi.

S: And we also need bowls. 我们还要用碗.

M: Women hai yao yong wan. 碗WAN wan, ‘bowl’, as in soup bowl. Women hai yao yong wan.

S: Women yao, we want. Women hai yao, ‘and we want’, or “and we also need’. Women hai yao yong wan. We also need bowls.

M: 我们吃中餐. So we need to use chopsticks. suoyi women yao yong kuaizi. 筷子KUAI ZI kuaizi, chopsticks. Say it, kuaizi, kuaizi.

S: We don’t use a knife and fork. 我们不用刀叉.

M: Women bu yong dao cha. 刀DAO dao, is ‘knife’, dao. So what is 叉CHA cha? Dui le, fork. Dao cha, knife and fork, dao cha.

S: So say, ‘we don’t use a knife and fork’. Dui le, women bu yong dao cha.

M: 我们用筷子, women yong kuaizi.

S: Hen hao. Now the dialogue again, and you can keep your fingers clean. ML yao dian ba ge cai.

M: Tian a, wo wang le. Women hai yao yi ge tang.

S: Suoyi, women yao yong shaozi.

M: Women hai yao yong wan.

S: Women chi zhongcan, suoyi women hai yao yong kuaizi.

M: Women bu yong dao cha.

S: Followed all this? Henhao! Now gongke time. Practice saying ‘I want to use …’ and ‘I don’t want to use … chopsticks, knife and fork, spoon – the utensils we’ve learnt.’

M: Hao hao xue xi. Zai jian.