Text 8
Learning Chinese: synthesis text 8
Here is the synthesis text of the unit. To build automatic reflexes, we advise you first to practice repeating it aloud, then to translate it from Chinese into English, and finally to translate it from English into Chinese.
Recording of the text:
大家好！
大家好！我是高小雨。大家叫我小雨。我二十岁了。我很高。我是北京大学的大学生。我学中文。我是中国人。我的老师也是中国人。我们学校有很多同学，他们都会说一点儿中文，也会写一些汉字。他们有的是英国人，有的是美国人。有一个新同学是法国人。她的名字叫白雪。她很漂亮。我有点儿喜欢她。
我家有四口人。爸爸、妈妈、一个妹妹和我。我的爸爸妈妈人很好。我没有哥哥和姐姐，也没有弟弟。我的妹妹叫月月。她九岁了。她是一个小学生。我爱我的家人。
我家有一只狗，还有两只猫。它们都不大，它们都很小。我喜欢和它们玩，它们都很好玩儿。
Hello everyone! I am Gao Xiaoyu. Everyone calls me Xiaoyu. I am (now) twenty years old. I am tall. I am a student at Peking University. I study Chinese. I am Chinese. My teacher is also Chinese. Our school has many classmates; they can all speak a little Chinese and also write a few characters. Among them, some are English, others are American. There is a new classmate who is French. Her name is Bai Xue. She is very pretty. I like her a little.
My family has four people: dad, mom, a little sister and me. My parents are good people. I have no older brother or older sister, and no younger brother either. My little sister is called Yueyue. She is (now) nine years old. She is a schoolgirl. I love my family.
My family has a dog, and also two cats. They are not big, they are all small. I like to play with them; they are all very fun.