Level 1 Unit 10 – Dialogue 2: Talk About Transportation
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Transportation in Chinese – HSK 1 Listening Practice
Unit 10 Review 2 ▸ In this HSK 1 Listening Practice Unit Review, we will practice how to talk about transportation in Chinese with a dialogue.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Listen to the dialogue
- Repeat after the dialogue
- Answer the given questions
- Copy the transcript both by typing and handwriting
- Practice daily until fluent
QUESTIONS
马可 is talking to his friend 高飞。
- How did 马可 go to 高飞’s place?
- Why didn’t 马可 take the subway today?
- How did 马可 go to 高飞’s place last week?
- When did 马可’s girlfriend buy the car?
- When and where did 马可 learn how to drive?
TRANSCRIPT
马可=Mǎkě 高飞=Gāofēi
*The English translation is made to be literal for a better understanding of the Chinese sentence structures and language flow.
高飞：Thank you (for) coming to my home. You -shi- sit subway to come -de- -ma?
马可：No, I -shi- sit taxi to come -de-.
高飞：You how come not sit subway to come -ne? Subway (is) pretty cheap, also pretty fast.
马可：I every day all sit subway to go to school, today (I do) not want to sit -le.
高飞：Taxi how (is)? Fast –ma? Expensive -ma?
马可：Taxi (is) also pretty fast, also pretty expensive.
高飞：You last week also -shi- sit taxi to come -de- -ma?
马可：Last week? I last week -shi- drive car to come -de-.
高飞：You bought car –le? How come not tell me? -Shi- when buy -de-?
马可：That “liang” of car not is mine, -shi- my girlfriend last month buy -de-. I last week -shi- drive her car to come -de-.
高飞：You and your girlfriend both like driving car -ma?
马可：We both (do) not like driving.
高飞：You -shi- how old to learn and know how to drive car -de-?
马可：I -shi- 17 years old in America learned and knew how to drive car -de-, you -ne?
高飞：I -shi- also 17 years old learned and knew how to drive car -de-. I now (do) not like drive car, I like sitting subway and taxies.
马可：I now also (do) not like driving car, in China driving car (is) too slow, sitting subway (is) fast.
Hi,
I have a question regarding the 是。。的 sentence structure. In the third sentence from the end of the dialog 马可 says:
我是十七岁在美国学会开车的
I noticed that 的 comes after 车 in this sentence – not after 开 (the verb). In most of the examples in lesson 30.1 的 comes right after the verb.
Thanks,
开车 is a 离合词(líhécí ▸ Detachable Compound), and this means that 开车 can be treated as a verb and also a verb-Object phrase.
高飞：谢谢你来我家。你是坐地铁来的吗？
马可：不是，我是坐出租车。
高飞：你怎么不坐地铁来呢？地铁很便宜，也很快。
马可：我每天到坐地铁去学校，今天不想做了。
高飞：出租车怎么样？快吗？贵吗？
马可：出租车很快，也很贵。
高飞：你上个星期也是坐出租车来的吗？
马可：上个星期？我上个星期是开车来的。
高飞：你买车了？怎么没告诉我？是什么时候买的？
马可：那辆车不是我的，是我女朋友上个月买的。我上个星期是开他的车来的。
高飞：你和你女朋友都喜欢开车吗？
马可：我们都不喜欢开。
高飞：你是多大学会开车的？
马可：我是十七岁在美国学会开车的，你呢？
高飞：我也是十七岁学会开车的。我现在不喜欢开车，我喜欢坐地铁和出租车。
马可：我现在也不喜欢开车，在中国开车太慢了，坐地铁快。
我希望您做汉语课视频到 HSK 9。你的汉语课视频很有帮助。