Text 8 in traditional characters
Learning Chinese: synthesis text 8 (traditional)
Here is the synthesis text of the unit in traditional characters. To build automatic reflexes, we advise you first to practice reading 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。我二十歲了。我很高。我是北京大學的大學生。我學中文。我是中國人。我的老師也是中國人。我們學校有很多同學，他們都會說一點兒中文，也會寫一些漢字。他們有的是英國人，有的是美國人。有一個新同學是法國人。她的名字叫白雪。她很漂亮。我有點兒喜歡她。 我家有四口人。爸爸，媽媽，一個妹妹和我。我的爸爸媽媽人很好。我沒有哥哥和姐姐，也沒有弟弟。我的妹妹叫月月。她九歲了。她是一個小學生。我愛我的家人。 我家有一隻狗，還有兩隻貓。它們都不大，它們都很小。我喜歡和它們玩，它們都很好玩兒。
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.