Newbie | Who are you waiting for?

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我是秦临

Today's lesson we will talk about

not necessarily how you pick up somebody

but how you can start a conversation

with somebody that you meet on the road or somewhere

And in case you're not in the mood for talking

we will learn how to refuse such advances as well

So in the conversation you will hear the words for

Wait

等

and the word for boyfriend

男朋友

So make sure you listen out for those

and let's check out the dialogue now

你是一个人吗

不是,我在等人

你在等谁

我的男朋友

好吧

你是一个人吗

不是,我在等人

你在等谁

我的男朋友

好吧

After listening to the conversation

Let's check it out lying by line

你是一个人吗

第二次伍复

你是个人吗

你是个人吗

不

我之后

他无 tale

代表 Mind

After listening to the conversation, let's check it out line by line.

你是一个人吗?

Are you alone?

Are you alone?

你是一个人吗?

不是我在等人?

I'm not. I'm waiting for someone.

不是我在等人?

I'm not. I'm waiting for someone.

不是我在等人?

你在等谁?

Who are you waiting for?

你在等谁?

Who are you waiting for?

你在等谁?

我的男朋友

My boyfriend

我的男朋友

My boyfriend

我的男朋友

好吧

ok

好吧

ok

好吧

The conversation starts with the girl

being asked whether or not she was alone.

你是一个人吗?

And this question here in the beginning

you see the words for you

你 and to be

是

And then in the end of that sentence or the question

you find a particle that indicates that this is a question

吗?

So together this you are

and the question particle becomes to are you

你是吗?

That's are you

ok and then between those

you have three words together that indicate or that mean alone

一个人

一个人

ok

So here you find the word for person or people

人

这是人

人

And then in front of that we have the word for one

一

And the most common measure word in Chinese

哥

Remember when you use counting or when you count things

you have to use measure words in Chinese

So this 哥 here is the most common

and you can some often use it when you don't know the actual measure word for things

Ok and here we have it together with

一

one

But if you say

一 and

哥

together the pronunciation changes a little bit, right?

一个

So there's a little bit of a tone change here

So it becomes to the second and the fourth tone together

一个

But if you have the word

一 alone

it's first tone

If you have any questions on that

we have a tone change here is where you can see all these different tone change rules

So this 一个人

here means one person or a person

and some of you may wonder

Wait, could this question mean

are you a person

like are you a human being as well

and sometimes it can have this meaning of a human being

but here in this context

now the highlight is on the 一个

which is one

and then it becomes are you alone

and then she answers

不是

我在等人

So here in the beginning you have

I am not

which is made up of

not and to be

不是

and then she continues going on and says what she does

and she's like

I

我

and then she uses a small word

在

and this we used to indicate that you're in the progress of doing something

or just doing something

so what is she doing

等人

So this is made up of the verb for weight

等

等

and then you have person or people again

人

and together this becomes to wait for somebody

在等人

So it's

在

doing something and then

等人

like waiting for somebody

So Lin

what else could we wait for

等公交車

to wait for the bus

等

红绿灯

to wait for the traffic light if it's red

等

厕所

to wait for the toilet

okay

but in the dialogue

the guy then goes on and asks the girl

who are you waiting for

你在等谁

So here the structure is the same

you have the personal pronoun

you

你

then this word to indicate that it's going on

在

then wait

等

and then instead of

人 or something

just

Who

谁

and altogether it's

Who are you waiting for

你在等谁

and who is she waiting for

男朋友

男朋友

So this is the boyfriend

and it's made up of two parts

the first part is male or man

男

and then friend

朋友

So male friend becomes a boyfriend

and yeah you could say girlfriend

that's where with a female friend

女朋友

and of course you could just wait for a friend as well

朋友

So who else could we wait for

maybe your father

爸爸

or your teacher

老师

So obviously the girl doesn't really want to talk to him

and then he reacts with a disappointed

好吧

and好吧

can be used to just like

okay

or if you're a little bit more aggressive

it would mean something

okay whatever

and then you go

okay so now we have talked about

a lot of things that you can wait for

about things and people that you can wait for

and in the dialogue we had that one sentence

Who are you waiting for

你在等谁

but we could at the same time ask the question

What are you waiting for

你在等什么

So what would be some answers

for example if I ask you

你在等什么

我在等飞机

So you're waiting for the plane

or

我在等开饭

Oh you're waiting for the rice to be served

or the meal to be served

so that we can start eating

Okay and the other one was like the one in the dialogue

你在等谁

你在等谁

我在等老公

Oh you're waiting for your husband

我在等女儿

or for the daughter

So with this in mind let's check out the dialogue again

你是一个人吗

不是

我在等人

你在等谁

我的男朋友

好吧

对

你是一个人吗

不是

我在等人

你在等谁

我的男朋友

好吧

你是一个人吗

不是 我在等人

你在等谁

我的男朋友

好吧

In today's lesson you have learned how to start a conversation with a stranger

and how to use the word to wait

to refuse these kind of advances

So if somebody comes up to you and asks you

Are you alone? You could say

No, I'm waiting for my boyfriend

我在等我的男朋友

But of course, if you actually want to have a conversation

you could of course say

Yes, I'm alone

对,我是一个人

It all depends on what you want to answer

So if you have any questions on order

we have discussed today in our class

or if you have simple sentences that you want to answer

So if you have any questions on order

we have discussed today in our class

or if you have simple sentences that you want to share with us

just leave them in the comment section below

My name is Zhou

我是庆林

下次见

Bye bye

Now here's a vocabulary recap

一个人

1 person or alone

等

to wait

谁

男朋友

boyfriend

好吧

OK, whatever

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