Ambulance Days

About

Although we claim to be experts in basically everything involving China, we should admit that no-one at

Popup Towers has ever had to call an ambulance. The one time a friend came down with a medical

problem that needed one, he staggered to the local convenience store and someone took care of it for

him. But since you're living in China and can't count on that, be sure to give this lesson a listen as we

cover all the Chinese you should need to know to get help in an emergency. Or at least dial the right

number.

Learning Chinese? At our absolute beginners level, all lessons are designed for people who have no

previous experience speaking Chinese. So even if you don't know any Chinese, you should be able to

understand the materials we cover in this class. And when you start finding this stuff too easy? Head

up to our elementary level which features more spoken Chinese in the podcast, and longer dialogues in

general.

Sentences

救命!快救我!

jiùmìng ! kuài jiù wǒ !

Help! Save me quickly!

你怎么了?

nǐ zěnme le ?

What's wrong?

我的心脏,好疼啊!

wǒde xīnzàng , hǎo téng a !

My heart. It's really painful!

我去打120.

wǒ qù dǎ yāoèrlíng .

I'm going to call 120.

Vocabulary

救命

jiùmìng

to save a life

verb

快

kuài

quickly

adverb

救

jiù

to save

verb

心脏

xīnzàng

heart

noun

心

xīn

heart

noun

好

hǎo

very

adverb

疼

téng

to hurt

verb

打

dǎ

to dial verb 120 yāoèrlíng 120 number 999 jiǔjiǔjiǔ 999 number 头疼 tóuténg headache

noun