The Art of Email

About

Xiao Luo stared at the business card with the patience and intensity of an archeologist exhuming an

ancient Pharoh. Unexpectedly, the combination of her own sweat and the Shanghai summer heat had

given the once cream-colored paper a greyish-blue tint, and smudged the delicate combination of numbers and letters which had previously been the email address of the most important businessman in her

field. Could she reconstruct it from memory?

Learning Chinese? This lesson has one of our more difficult dialogues at the Absolute Beginner level,

although we try to work you up to it slowly. Nonetheless, if you are a total beginning to mandarin, you'll

probably want to start with an easier show from our beginner lesson archive. If you've already got a few

under your belt though, join us for this show and learn all the Chinese you need to ask for someone's

email address. If you're new to China, you'll find this is oddly more difficult than it is abroad.

Sentences

[第一部]

[ dì yī bù ]

[Part One]

你的邮箱地址是多少?

nǐ de yóuxiāng dìzhǐ shì duōshǎo ?

What is your email address?

zyxf419fczy@163.com

zyxf sì yāo jiǔ fczy@ yāo liù sān . com

zyxf419fczy@163.com

[第二部]

[ dì èr bù ]

[Part Two]

我今天给你发的邮件你收到了吗?

wǒ jīntiān gěi nǐ fā de yóujiàn nǐ shōudào le ma ?

Have you received the email I sent you today?

没有啊。你不会记错地址了吧?

méiyǒu a 。 nǐ bù huì jìcuò dìzhǐ le ba ?

Nope. You didn't get the address wrong, did you?

你的地址不是zyyzxu51997zczhang97@126.com吗?

nǐ de dìzhǐ bù shì zyyzxū997zczhang97@126.com ma ?

Isn't your address zyyzxu51997zczhang97@126.com?

你真的记错了呀。是zyyzxu51999zczhang97@126.com

。是1999,不是1997。

nǐ zhēnde jìcuò le ya 。 shì zyyzxū999zczhang97@126.com 。 shì

yī jiǔ jiǔ jiǔ , bù shì yī jiǔ jiǔ qī 。

You really did get it wrong. It's zyyzxu51999zczhang97@126.com. It's 1999 not

1997.

哦,那我再给你发一遍。

o , nà wǒ zài gěi nǐ fā yībiàn 。

Oh, I'll send it again then.

Vocabulary

邮箱

yóuxiāng

email inbox

noun

邮件

yóujiàn

email letter

noun

地址

dìzhǐ

address

noun

发

fā

to send

verb

收

shōu

to receive

verb

今天

jīntiān

today

noun

真的

zhēnde

really

adverb

记错

jìcuò

to misrememberverb 再发一遍 zài fā yībiàn to send again

phrase

再说一遍

zài shuō yībiàn

to say again

phrase