Newbie | You’re Sitting in My Seat

我们会是说是闷

我认为战斗那样的

C和铒争

我们的门口都是所有闷

用自己的闷

那麽节奏的意思是

我认为战斗那样的闷

都是闷

为什么

你认为战斗那样的闷

这个闷

那麽节奏的闷

我认为战斗的闷

现在战斗的闷

大家没关系

我们是闷

第一节

现在闷

没关系

到中文部课我是庆临

Today's lesson we are going to go to this cinema

电影院

and what happens sometimes at the cinema

is that you cannot find your seat

Yes, because it's too dark

太暗了

So maybe the movie has started already here in a hurry

or it's too dark

and then you're like,

oh god, where's my seat

or you take the wrong seat

So how do we say seat?

位置

So make sure you listen out for this word

and let's check the dialogue now

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

So the problem here is that one person is sitting in the wrong seat

So for now, let's check out the dialogue line by line

不好意思

这是我的位置

Excuse me, this is my seat

不好意思

这是我的位置

Excuse me, this is my seat

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

Really?

Let me see

是吗

我看一下

Oh, really? Let me see

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

Look

Number 15

你看

15号

Look

Number 15

你看

15号

我做错了

Oh, I took the wrong seat

啊,我做错了

Oh, I took the wrong seat

啊,我做错了

So there's a woman here who goes to the cinema and searches for her seat

but when she finds it, she finds it to be taken already

So what does she say then?

不好意思

这是我的位置

Okay, in the beginning we have a set phrase that each and every one of you should know

because it's very common and very good to use

it's excuse me or sorry

不好意思

Excuse me and then she goes on and says this is my seat

so how do we say seat again in Chinese?

位置

and how would I say my seat?

我的位置

Okay, in the front of this we have two other words

the first word is this one

and then there is a verb following which is to be

so this is like this is my seat

这是我的位置

Lin, is it normal to have your seats assigned and cinemas in China?

Yes, of course

Okay, because I think there are some countries like the US

where you don't assign seats to your customers

but for instance in Germany it's very common to have that or normal

and so it is in China

so this guy sits on the wrong seat

and after being told so he's like really?

是吗

so here we just have the verb to be and a question particle

so actually if he translated literally it's just like is it?

是吗

and we use this to express like some kind of doubt or a surprise

so he's like really oh let me check

我看一下

so here we have this eye and to look

我看

and then after that we have a phrase

a two word phrase what is that?

一下

okay if you look at this separately you have one and down

but together we use this to express like a certain or a short amount of time

so here it's actually like I'm investing a short amount of time

and look at something

我看一下

and you can find this a short amount of time

一下 together with many other things as well

so for instance I could say if I'm very tired

what would I say like

我睡一下

I'll like take a short nap or let's say we've both been hiking

like for hours and hours and my legs are like oh god

so tired or they start hurting and I need to sit down for a moment

我坐一下

so like sit down for a moment and rest a bit

or if your mother or somebody else a friend calls you

and you want to go over for shortly

what do you say?

我去一下

you can use this for example as well to excuse yourself

when you're like in the middle of a conversation with some friends

and you're like oh like I need to go somewhere shortly

我去一下

so while the guy is checking his ticket

the woman has her ticket already and is showing it to him

你看十五号

so here it starts only with two words

and the first word is you and then together with look

你看

so here she just wants to draw the attention to the ticket

yeah you look

and you can use this short sentence pattern with

knee plus a verb for other things as well

so for example if you spot a rainbow somewhere

and you want your peer, your friend to look at it

you're like oh look a rainbow

你看彩虹

and this works as I said with other verbs as well

so for instance if you listen to a nice tune somewhere

a song somewhere and you're like oh listen up

你聽

or for example it works with smell as well

if you have a nice pasta for example

你聞

嗯

that's good

so it's mostly used for a kind of command

but it's not really aggressive

it's more like a spontaneous sharing of information

or of something that's happening

so you draw the attention to that one

okay and then after that she's like

okay look at it and she tells him the seat number

she has on her ticket

你看十五号

okay so for numbers

we can use the number as an accounting

and then just add how in the end

so yeah here we have number 15

十五号

what would be for example number 10

十号

and so on and so forth

the guy then notices that indeed he's set down on the wrong seat

啊

我做错了

so here we have a phrase that is made up of two words

the first is the verb to sit down

and this is combined with the word fault or mistake

做错

做错

so we use this to say that he's set down wrongly

and then we have a particle after that

which is it

了

we use this 了

to indicate that something just changed

or that's like a spontaneous reaction to him noticing

that he did something wrong

okay and this is all combined just with the subject i

and then it's i set down wrongly

我做错了

and we can use this verb plus做

structure to indicate other things that can go wrong

for instance what happens to me still

sometimes is when I write my address in Chinese

that I misspell it

写错地址了

写 is to write

and then写错 is to write something wrongly

so yeah I wrote my address wrongly

or let's say I want to call a friend

and I'm like way is this joy

不是我是庆林

做你打错了

oops so打 is to call somebody

so打错 is to call wrongly

so I just call the wrong person

and you may hear that when you call anyone on the phone

you're like no you call wrong

你打错了

okay I have another idea

Lin how would you tell somebody that his answer was incorrect

打错

so here we have the verb to answer

打

and then again错

wrongly

you can actually say that something is correct as well

using a similar structure just the verb

and then the word for correct

打对

so this would be to answer correctly

and this works with all the others as well

okay I have a short thing here that I want to practice with you

okay

can you guess my zodiac

let me think

金牛做

Taurus

打错了

水平做

Aquarius

打错了

那是什麼

I'll tell you later

but for now let's go back and check the dialogue again

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不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

不好意思

这是我的位置

是吗

我看一下

你看

15号

我做错了

在这里面

我们所谓的工作

我们有的时候

或者我们有为计划

同时不讀

然后我们有要计划

我看到你

看见

我们看见

我看到你

我看到你

你试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

你试试

我们看见

我想都试试

试试

是吗

我试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

你试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

我试试

做错位置

所以你现在有个问题吗

没有

让我给你个试试

好

天庭座

对啦,Libra

达对了

所以如果大家想要带个试试

你可以带个试试在留言上

然后我们会回答你

达对了

还是达错了

对对,你的 answer was correct

我的 name is Joe

我是庆林

See you next time

拜拜

Now, here's a vocabulary recap

不好意思

Excuse me or sorry

位置

seat

坐

To sit

错

Mistake

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