Dialogue 1
Learning Chinese: dialogue of Unit 1
Here is the dialogue of the unit. To build automatic reflexes, we recommend that you first practice repeating it aloud, then translating it from Chinese into English, and finally translating it from English into Chinese.
Dialogue recording:
上海，我来了！
星期天早上七点，上海火车站
- 白雪：小雨，看，我们到了吗？
- 高小雨：我们到上海了！坐了一晚上火车，你怎么样？
- 白雪：我很好，我想吃早饭了。
- 高小雨：我们去小王姐姐的饭店吃早饭吧。
- 白雪：好！上海的路太多，我们怎么走？
- 高小雨：从这里往前面走，去坐地铁。
- 白雪：我们不坐公交车去吗？
- 高小雨：早上公交车人太多。你看，前面是地铁站。
- 白雪：这里人也不少！
- 高小雨：来。你坐我旁边。
- 白雪：好。我们坐几站？
- 高小雨：三站，十分钟。
- 白雪：小雨，星期天晚上回去，我们坐公交车去火车站，好不好？
- 高小雨：好，晚上九点半后，车站的人很少。我们坐公交车去火车站，可以看晚上的上海。
- 白雪：太好了！上海，我来了！
到站了…
- 白雪：往左走吗？
- 高小雨：不往左，往右走。
- 白雪：往右？好。右边有一家超市。
- 高小雨：超市的旁边是一家书店。
- 白雪：我看见书店了！饭店在书店的左边吗？
- 高小雨：不在左边，在书店的后面。
- 白雪：书店的右边是什么？
- 高小雨：右边是一家水果店。你看，那是小王姐姐的饭店！
- 白雪：看见了！叫“回来吧”。
- 高小雨：我们现在去吃早饭！
(Sunday morning, seven o'clock, Shanghai Railway Station.)
- Bai Xue: Xiaoyu, look, have we arrived?
- Gao Xiaoyu: We're in Shanghai! A whole night on the train… how are you feeling?
- Bai Xue: Very well, and I feel like having breakfast!
- Gao Xiaoyu: Let's go and have it at Xiao Wang's sister's restaurant.
- Bai Xue: OK! So many streets in Shanghai! Which way do we go?
- Gao Xiaoyu: From here, straight ahead: we're going to take the subway.
- Bai Xue: Aren't we going by bus?
- Gao Xiaoyu: In the morning, there are too many people on the bus. Look, the subway station is just ahead.
- Bai Xue: It's not exactly empty here either!
- Gao Xiaoyu: Come on. Sit next to me.
- Bai Xue: Good. How many stops until we get off?
- Gao Xiaoyu: Three stops, ten minutes.
- Bai Xue: Xiaoyu, on Sunday evening, to go back, let's take the bus to the train station, OK?
- Gao Xiaoyu: OK. After 9:30 p.m., there aren't many people at the station. By bus, we'll be able to see Shanghai at night.
- Bai Xue: Great! Shanghai, here I come!
(Arriving at the station…)
- Bai Xue: Do we go to the left?
- Gao Xiaoyu: Not to the left, to the right.
- Bai Xue: To the right? OK. On the right, there is a supermarket.
- Gao Xiaoyu: Next to the supermarket, a bookstore.
- Bai Xue: I see the bookstore! Is the restaurant to its left?
- Gao Xiaoyu: Not to the left, behind it.
- Bai Xue: And to the right of the bookstore?
- Gao Xiaoyu: A fruit store. Look, there's Xiao Wang's sister's restaurant!
- Bai Xue: I see it! It's called "Come back!"
- Gao Xiaoyu: And now: breakfast!