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I have twenty thousand dollars
M: D ji ho! Hunyng shutng Xinzi Xu Hny. W sh ML.
S: W sh Stuart.
M: Jn tin sh fx k. And three lessons ago we learnt to say
something like,
Three hours, ten minutes and five seconds.
S: So, using yqin, which means before' or ago', try to say, He
went
three hours, ten minutes and five seconds ago.
M: Did you say, ? Let's say it again. T sn xiosh sh
fn lng w mio yqin zu le.
S: And did you notice that we don't use a measure word for the
hours, minutes
and seconds?
M: So now say, They left one hour and twenty minutes ago.
S: Hn ho. tmen y xiosh r sh fnzhng yqin
zu le.
M: Ok, enough of that! We then started speaking about a more
interesting thing.
S: Money, qin.
M: Everybody say, You must give ML one million dollars.
Hnho.
n di gi ML y bi wn miyun.
S: N kiwnxio!
M: Now let's revise some big numbers. Remember how to say one
million'?
Dule. , a hundred 10,000s, y bi wn.
S: Remember, in Chinese we have this word wn WAN wn, meaning
10,000. So
translating numbers quickly, whether from Chinese to English or
vice versa, can
really stress your brain. We need lots of practice, with money,
of course. But first,
how do we say US dollar'?
M: Mi cu. miyun. We can also say mijn. JIN jn itself means
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gold', but it's often used in compound words to mean money'.
S: Using mijn, ML will now say, I have ten thousand
dollars'.
M: w yu y wn mijn.
S: And you say, I have twenty thousand dollars.
M: Hnhao! , or, w yu ling wn miyun, both are ok.
S: And what is a yngbng? Mi cu. British pound, yngbng.
M: And Euro, that new stuff? Dule, uyun. Now let's have a new
one.
How do we say Canada? Dule. jind. So guess what
jindyun means. Easy, Canadian dollar, jind yun, or simply,
jiyun,
jiyun.
S: Now, it's been a while since we gave you some homework. Get
your pen
ready. Now we'll give you some sentences to translate, and we'll
check the
answers in our next lesson.
M: First one, d y g. How do we say, I need 10,000 pounds?
S: Next. I need 22,000 Canadian dollars.
M: I need 33,000 Euros.
S: He has 45,000 Canadian dollars.
M: I need 445,000 Canadian dollars.
S: I must give you 500,100 Canadian dollars.
M: I have 555,100 euros.
S: I have 2,400,000 dollars.
M: I must give you 3,500,000 pounds.
S: Sounds good, but Lost, remember, is di le. So, last one. But,
I lost
11,654,321 pounds.
M: Mmm. That's a lot of weight!
