What’s wrong, Lassie?

About

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.

Sentences

汪...汪....

wàng . wàng

Woof... woof....

怎么了,莱西?提米怎么了?

zěnme le , Láixī ? Tímǐ zěnme le ?

What's wrong Lassie? What happened to Timmy?

汪汪汪....

wàng wàng wàng . . . .

Bark, bark, bark....

我的天哪,他掉到井里了?

wǒ de tiān na , tā diàodào jǐng lǐ le ?

My heavens, he fell into a well?

汪汪汪汪汪汪汪....

wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng wàng . . . .

Bark bark bark bark bark bark....

马上要爆炸了?

mǎshàng yào bàozhà le ?

And it's going to blow up right away?

汪。

wàng 。

That's right.

快上车,我们赶快走。

kuài shàngchē , wǒmen gǎnkuài zǒu 。

Get in the car, we're going at once.

Vocabulary

莱西

Láixī

Lassie name 拉稀 lāxī to have diarrheaverb 汪 wàng bark sound 狗 gǒu dog

noun

马上

mǎshàng

at once

adverb

要

...

了 yào ... le will structure 掉 diào to fall

verb

走

zǒu

to go

verb

爆炸

bàozhà

to explode

verb

赶快

gǎnkuài

with all haste

adverb

出去

chūqù

to get out

verb

睡觉

shuìjiào

to sleep

verb

我的天哪

wǒ de tiān

na my God

phrase