2. STORYTELLING
Shìjiè Dì-sān Gāo Lóu
《世界第三高楼》
(The) World(’s) No.3 Tall(est) Building
Level 3 Lesson 47.3 – Conversation & Story
HSK 3+ Conversational Practice
In this part of the lesson, we will be practicing the vocabulary and grammar that we've learned in Lesson 20.1 and Lesson 20.2. There are two separate conversational practice:
- CONVERSATION → 《怎么换不了钱呢》
- STORY TELLING →《世界第三高楼》
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Learn
- Listen and repeat along with the video
- Practice daily - the most important part for achieving fluency
- Spend 10-30 minutes per day reading the lesson materials aloud (with or without the video)
- Practice conversations and stories from previous lessons too
1. CONVERSATION
Zěnme Huàn Bu Liǎo Qián Ne
《怎么换不了钱呢》
How-Come (The) Money Cannot (be) Exchanged
❖ QUESTIONS 问题 Wèntí
- Wǒ yào huàn duōshao rénmínbì?
我要换多少人民币？
How much renminbi (do) I intend to exchange? - Wèi shénme xiànzài huàn bù liǎo?
为什么现在换不了？
Why can't (I) exchange (it) now? - Wǒ dǎsuàn jīntiān huàn háishi míngtiān huàn?
我打算今天换还是明天换？
(Do) I plan to exchange (it) today or tomorrow?
❖ TEXT 课文 Kèwén
ENGLISH
*The English translation is made to be literal for a better understanding of the Chinese sentence structures and language flow.
工作人员 Staff member 客人 Client
工作人员：[Respectfully]Hello, (does there) “exist” anything (that I) can help [respectful]you?
客人：[Respectfully]Hello, I need to exchange a-little-bit (of) renminbi.
工作人员：How much (renminbi do) [respectful]you intend to exchange?
客人：I want to exchange 38000(/3 “wan” 8 thousands) US-dollars (worth of) renminbi.
工作人员：38000(/3 “wan” 8 thousands) US dollars already (is) two-hundred thousand something renminbi, (it is) very big “bi” (of) money! We now are-not-able-to exchange (it) for you.
客人：Why?
工作人员：You (do) not know(, right)? Usually(,) only-with-the-condition(-that) (the) cash (that) needs (to be) withdrawn (does) not reach 200000(/20 “wan”) (, and) “then” you (can) right-away withdraw (it). You now need over 200000(/20 “wan”), (you) need to give us (the) prepare time of 24 “ge” (of) hours.
客人：Then (do) I come (here) tomorrow?
工作人员：(Do) you need (it) urgent?
客人：A-little-bit urgent.
工作人员：Then we today can first for you exchange 10000 US-dollars, is (it) enough (or) is (it) not enough?
客人：Actually (I am) not very impatient-and-anxious, then I (will) tomorrow come again!
工作人员：Sorry, (when) you come tomorrow (we) definitely (will) be-able-to exchange (it).
客人：It’s okay, then you first (get back and be) busy (with your work)! I (will) tomorrow come again.
工作人员：Okay.
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❖ QUESTIONS 问题 Wèntí
- Zhè dòng bàngōngloú yǒu duō gāo?
这栋办公楼有多高？
How tall (is) the office building? - Wǒmen yào huā duōshao qián cái néng wánchéng zhè ge xiàngmù?
我们要多花多少钱才能完成这个项目？
How much money (do) we need to spend to finish the project? - Zhè bǐ qián wǒmen dǎsuàn cóng nǎlǐ dé dào?
这笔钱我们打算从哪里得到？
Where (do) we plan to get the money?
❖ TEXT 课文 Kèwén
ENGLISH
*The English translation is made to be literal for a better understanding of the Chinese sentence structures and language flow.
(The) World(’s) No.3 Tall(est) Building
Hello(,) everyone, I am-called Yu Meiyan, (I) am (the) project manager of Anping Company “Dong Yang” project, (I am) very glad (that I) today can have (the) chance to everyone introduce this “ge” project’s situation. This “ge” (of) project is-at No.888 Dongyang Street, (at the) nearby-places(, there) “exists” the-best hospital and the-best middle (school and) primary school, (the) project being-away-from the-most-near subway-station only “has” 200 meters. (The) project being-away-from the-most close subway-station only “exists” 200 meters, (the) project-underneath “exists” one “ge” (of) residential-community and one “dong” (of) office-building. (The) office building (-) (its) height (is) 380 meters, (and it) is (the) world(’s) No.3 tall(est) building; (the) residential-community “exists” twenty-two “dong” (of buildings), each “dong” (of building) (is) 38 to 42 floors, (and) each floor (is) 4 “tao(/suite)” of apartments, (the residential-community) can live over 10000(/1 “wan”) people. Now(,) (the) residential-community-inside(,) Building One to Building Six (have) already (been) sold, (it has) for (the) project earned-back 10000000000(/100 “yi”) (yuan) or-so. This “ge” (of) number actually is very not-bad indeed, but now we (have) suddenly encountered a-little-bit (of) problem: From last year to start, our city’s salary level (has) all-the-time been increasing, so we perhaps need to additionally spend over 200000000(/2 “yi”) (yuan), (and “only-with-this-condition”) (we) “then” can finish this “ge” (of) project. (I do) not know (whether we) can (or) cannot get this “bi” (of) money from (the) company(’s) side, if (it is) not-okay, we hope (we) can borrow (it) “really quick” from (the) bank.
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