汪...汪....
wàng . wàng
Woof... woof....
Timmy needed her! And just like that our faithful collie no longer felt the sting of the ice round her paws,
or the frozen wind blowing through the woods. Instead, blood surged through her veins as instinct took
command and she drove headlong back to the farmhouse in search of help, her small body throwing itself
across the fields and over the old wooden fence in a single bound as she raced home for help.
Learning Chinese? At the Absolute Beginner level at Popup Chinese, our focus is on covering the basics
of the Chinese language in a series of shows you can cover in any order. In today's episode, join Echo,
Brendan and David as we talk about why Lassie never made it big in China, and then discuss an easy
way to put your sentences into the Chinese equivalent of the future tense.
wàng . wàng
Woof... woof....
zěnme le , Láixī ? Tímǐ zěnme le ?
What's wrong Lassie? What happened to Timmy?
wàng wàng wàng . . . .
Bark, bark, bark....
wǒ de tiān na , tā diàodào jǐng lǐ le ?
My heavens, he fell into a well?
wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng . . . .
Bark bark bark bark bark bark....
mǎshàng yào bàozhà le ?
And it's going to blow up right away?
wàng 。
That's right.
kuài shàngchē , wǒmen gǎnkuài zǒu 。
Get in the car, we're going at once.
Láixī
Lassie name 拉稀 lāxī to have diarrheaverb 汪 wàng bark sound 狗 gǒu dog
nounmǎshàng
at once
adverb...
了 yào ... le will structure 掉 diào to fall
verbzǒu
to go
verbbàozhà
to explode
verbgǎnkuài
with all haste
adverbchūqù
to get out
verbshuìjiào
to sleep
verbwǒ de tiān
na my God
phrase