Missing Keys

About

We've all been in this sordid situation. Your date was a wild success and you've come back home for a

nightcap. But just as you step to the door you reach into your pocket and find something wrong: it has

been picked clean. But by whom? Was it your surly waiter? The child selling roses who snaked after you

down the street, pulling at your arm? The shifty group of ragged layabouts who operated that makeshift

coat-check outside the restaurant?

Whoever the culprit, it seems you will now be spending the rest of your evening walking around looking

for an open locksmith. So fire up your iPod and tune in to this podcast for all the language you'll need to

get things fixed. Or at least all the language you'll need to complain about your lost keys to anyone who

will listen, locksmith included.

Sentences

门锁了。

mén suǒ le 。

The door is locked.

你有钥匙吗?

nǐ yǒu yàoshi ma ?

Do you have the keys?

没有。

méiyǒu 。

No.

哦,天哪!

o , tiān na !

Oh, goodness gracious!

Vocabulary

门

mén

door

noun

锁

suǒ

to lock up

verb

钥匙

yàoshi

key

noun

有

yǒu

to have

verb

天哪

tiān

na dear God

phrase

新

xīn

new

adjective

旧

jiù

old

adjective

坏

huài

broken

adjective

二手

èrshǒu

secondhandadjective 手机 shǒujī cellphone

noun

汽车

qìchē

car

noun

自行车

zìxíngchē

bicycle

noun