2. STORYTELLING
Zuì Hǎo De Lǐwù
《最好的礼物》
The Best Gift
In this part of the lesson, we will be practicing the vocabulary and grammar that we've learned in Lesson 7.1 and Lesson 7.2. There are two separate materials:
INSTRUCTIONS:
Xiǎo Yuán Kàn Jiàn Kāngkāng Zài Kū
《小元看见康康在哭》
Little Yuan Saw Kangkang Crying
*The English translation is made to be literal for a better understanding of the Chinese sentence structures and language flow.
小元 Little Yuan 康康 Kangkang
小元:Kangkang, you how come one-person(/being alone) in here crying? So sad “is (because)” what matter?
康康:Xiaoyuan, this time my parents really plan to get divorce (already). Yesterday my mom with her good friend made phone call, I listened “for a little bit”, she (was) especially producing-my-dad’s-anger(/angry-with-my-dad), (she had) already prepared-well suitcase (and) planed to leave (already).
小元:I know you (are) very sad, but you should believe (that) parents getting divorce not “is (because)” your fault. You are their child, they both still love you.
康康:These (-) I all understand, but mainly “is (because)”, I hope we (as) one family still can be together, live in one “ge” (of) house, with before the same.
小元:But your parents being together (are) not happy, perhaps after getting divorce everyone all will live better. My parents two years before also got divorced (already), I with my mom together live, (my) big brother with my dad. When (it was the) beginning I every day all wanted to cry, but not I (have) already got used to (it).
康康:Thank you (for) saying these with me, (after) listening to your words/speech I (am) now not that sad (anymore).
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Zuì Hǎo De Lǐwù
《最好的礼物》
The Best Gift
*The English translation is made to be literal for a better understanding of the Chinese sentence structures and language flow.
The Best Gift
I with (my) husband (have) got married (for) five years (already), but still not “want to have” (any) child. (We being like this) not “is (because)” (we do) not want to “want to have” (a child), (it) really “is (because)” (our) work (is) too busy. I and husband both very like kids, every time, looking at friend’s family’s kids, (we) all (of every time) are thinking: how come they (are) that cute? But our jobs now really (are) both very painstaking, mainly “is (because)” work-overtime time (being) too long, sometimes weekends (we) also need to go to (the) office room.
(My) husband this year (is) 36, I (am) 33. We both (are) not young anymore, plus I want to “want to have” two kids: one “ge” (of) big brother, one “ge” (of) little sister. Last night I again with husband talked about “really quick” (the) thing (of) “wanting to have” (a) child, he too felt (that) we not can more over wait (anymore). So, I plan to from now (on) start to look for one “fen” (of) new job, change one “ge” (job that) work-overtime not (being) that much. (How about) (my) husband(?), (he will) start to look at houses, because we also need to change one “tao”(/suite) (of) bigger house, prepare-(with the result of preparing)-well (the) room for (our) child. I (have) already prepared-(with the result of preparing)-well to be (a) mother, I believe, (a) child will be the best gift (that) life gives us.
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