Thursday, May 2, 2013

A lesson in a chinses quiz


 

王朋和李友在同一个学校学习快半年了。王朋常常帮李友学中文,他们常常一起完人,没次都完人的很高兴。 李友对王朋的印象很好,王朋也很喜欢李友,他们成了好朋友。

这个周末学校演一个中国电影,看电影的`人很多,王朋费了很大力气才买到票。他请李友去看电影李友说好极了。她问王朋还有别人根他们一起看电影吗,王朋说就他们俩。李友很高兴,说看电影以前她请王朋吃晚饭。

This is a sample of a Chinese quiz here at Kennedy. To type this you first have to switch your computer to simplified Chinese. Then you don't type the characters but the pinyin, which is how the characters sound in the paragraph. This is important to know if you ever want to live in china for if you need to type on a Chinese computer, or just how to switch it back to English.

To read the following paragraph out loud I will give you the pinyin for the words.

“wang peng he li you zai tong yi ge xue xiao xue xi kuai ban nian le. Wang peng chang chang bang li you xue zhong wen, tamen changchang yi qi wanr, mei ci dou wanr de hen gao xing. Li you dui wang peng de yinxiang hen hao, wang peng ye hen xihuan li you, ta men cheng le hao peng you.

Zhe ge zhoumo xuexiao yan yi ge zhongguo dainying, kan dian ying nde ren hen duo, wang peng fei le hen da liqi cai mai dao piao. Ta qing liyou qu kan dainying, li you shou hao ji le. Ta wen wang peng hai you bier en gen ta men yi qi kan dianying ma, wang peng shuo jiu tamen lia. Liyou hen gao xing, shuo kan dianying yiqian ta qing wang peng chi wanfan.”

That was all the words in the end it’s all just how you say it. The English translation is “ wang peng and liyou have been at the same school for almost half a year. Wang peng often helps liyou  study chinese, they often hang out, and when they do they are both very happy. Liyou has a good impression of wang peng, wang peng also likes li you, they are now good friends.

This weekend at school they are showing a Chinese film, there are supposed to be a lot of people there,, wang peng worked hard to get tickets. He wants to treat li you to see the movie, liyou says yes. She asks wang pen if anyone will be joining them, he says it’s only the two fo them. Li you is very happy, she says that before the movie she will treat wang peng to dinner.”  That is our Chinese writing quiz. It takes a lot to learn all of this but it’s worth it. Now that you have seen all the meaning of the text here it is one more time.

王朋和李友在同一个学校学习快半年了。王朋常常帮李友学中文,他们常常一起完人,没次都完人的很高兴。 李友对王朋的印象很好,王朋也很喜欢李友,他们成了好朋友。

这个周末学校演一个中国电影,看电影的`人很多,王朋费了很大力气才买到票。他请李友去看电影李友说好极了。她问王朋还有别人根他们一起看电影吗,王朋说就他们俩。李友很高兴,说看电影以前她请王朋吃晚饭。