Dialogue 1 in traditional characters
Learning Chinese: dialogue of Unit 1 in traditional characters
Here is the dialogue of the unit in traditional characters. 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，我來了！
星期天早上七點，上海火車站
- 白雪：小雨，看，我們到了嗎？
- 高小雨：我們到上海了！坐了一晚上火車，你怎麼樣？
- 白雪：我很好，我想吃早飯了。
- 高小雨：我們去小王姐姐的飯店吃早飯吧。
- 白雪：好！上海的路太多，我們怎麼走？
- 高小雨：從這裡往前面走，去坐地鐵。
- 白雪：我們不坐公交車去嗎？
- 高小雨：早上公交車人太多。你看，前面是地鐵站。
- 白雪：這裡人也不少！
- 高小雨：來。你坐我旁邊。
- 白雪：好。我們坐幾站？
- 高小雨：三站，十分鐘。
- 白雪：小雨，星期天晚上回去，我們坐公交車去火車站，好不好？
- 高小雨：好，晚上九點半後，車站的人很少。我們坐公交車去火車站，可以看晚上的上海。
- 白雪：太好了！上海，我來了！
到站了…
- 白雪：往左走嗎？
- 高小雨：不往左，往右走。
- 白雪：往右？好。右邊有一家超市。
- 高小雨：超市的旁邊是一家書店。
- 白雪：我看見書店了！飯店在書店的左邊嗎？
- 高小雨：不在左邊，在書店的後面。
- 白雪：書店的右邊是什麼？
- 高小雨：右邊是一家水果店。你看，那是小王姐姐的飯店！
- 白雪：看見了！叫“回來吧”。
- 高小雨：我們現在去吃早飯！
(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!