Adventures on WeChat

About

Facebook spent 16 billion dollars on some kind of mobile phone app? We heard something about that,

but we're not really sure what you guys are doing outside China. Because we have our own thing going

on in the mobile chat space, and pretty much everyone in this country of 1.3 billion mobile users is on it.

So you should get on it too.

Learning Chinese? In today's show, we feature two dialogues about asking someone for their Wechat/Weixin

number. This is a useful way of hooking up with new friends, and a non-threatening way to meet new

people -- it's not as aggressive as asking someone for their phone number, and it lets you find out more

about them through an entirely new and innovative method of digital stalking. Needless to say, we highly

recommend it.

Sentences

[第一部]

[ dì yī bù ]

[Part One]

哎,你有微信吗?

āi , nǐ yǒu wēixìn ma ?

Hey, do you have Wechat?

当然有啊。

dāngrán yǒu ā 。

Of course I do.

你妹妹呢?

nǐ mèimei ne ?

What about your younger sister?

什么?

shénme ?

What?

你妹妹的微信号是多少?让她加我。

nǐ mèimei de wēixìn hào shì duōshǎo ? ràng tā jiā wǒ 。

What's your sister's Wechat number? Make her add me.

[第二部]

[ dì èr bù ]

[Part Two]

哎,你有微信吗?

āi , nǐ yǒu wēixìn ma ?

Hey, do you have Wechat?

有啊。

yǒu ā 。

Yeah, I do.

那你妹妹呢?

nà nǐ mèimei ne ?

What about your younger sister?

什么?我妹妹?

shénme ? wǒ mèimei ?

What? My younger sister?

你妹妹有微信吗?

nǐ mèimei yǒu wēixìn ma ?

Does your sister have Wechat?

她应该也有。

tā yīnggāi yě yǒu 。

She should have it.

那你爸爸妈妈用微信吗?

nà nǐ bàba māma yòng wēixìn ma ?

So, do your father and mother use Wechat?

他们也用。

tāmen yě yòng 。

They also use it.

好。一家四口。真好。

hǎo 。 yījiā sì kǒu 。 zhēn hǎo 。

That's great. A family of four people. Really good.

Vocabulary

你

nǐ

you

pronoun

我

wǒ

me

pronoun

妹妹

mèimei

younger sisternoun 爸爸 bàba father

noun

妈妈

māma

mother

noun

有

yǒu

to have

verb

用

yòng

to use

verb

加

jiā

to add

verb

微信

wēixìn

wechat

noun

当然

dāngrán

of course conjunction 什么 shénme what

question

应该

yīnggāi

should

verb

一家四口

yījiā sì kǒu a

family of four

phrase