Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Lesson Fifteen: College Anyone? (Part One)

If you are ever out and about, you will probably find yourself in a normal conversation with someone and trying to drum up stuff to talk about. Well fear no more, because here is a miracles sentence that will cure all of that...
Okay, so it's not such a miracles sentence and it probably won't kill too much of the dead air in your conversation. However, it is good to be able to say this sentence and know the words associated with it.

Bob: 我從大學畢業,你呢。 Wo3  Cong2  Da4   Xue2   Bi4   Ye4,  Ni3 Ne5.
Jenny: 我從醫學大學畢業。Wo3   Cong2    Yi1     Xue2    Da4    Xue4    Bi4    Ye4.

Well we have a couple familiar  words in here but mostly new, which is a good thing believe it or now.
The more new words you see the more you know you are going to be learning.

Starting with Bob,  大學 ( Da4 Xue2 ) ( it means College, or University. )
Also we have 畢業 ( Bi4 Ye4 ) ( it means Graduated. )

Well now we have our translations, and I know we exceeded the three per lesson rule.
However, I cannot always break down the lesson to keep it strictly to three, but I do attempt to keep very close to it. Don't worry though the next lesson will be only two characters to make up for this lesson having an extra which should compensate by giving you a little more time to study these if need be.

Well I almost forgot we did not examine what Bob had said above since we know have a translation for the whole sentence.

Literal Translation: I from College graduated, and you?
With Correct English Grammar: I graduated from College, and you?

And with that I will see you all next on Zhongwen Study 中文學習.

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