Three Meals A Day 我的一日三餐

Hello, welcome to Speak Chinese now. I am Teacher Li. Today, we're going to learn how to say my three meals a day. Okay, read after me: My, my, my, three meals a day, three meals a day One day is one day, three meals is three meals. So basically, direct translation will be my one-day, three-meal routine. Proper English will be my three meals a day. All right, go ahead and read after me: My daily three meals. For Chinese learners, it's hard to pronounce, so Chinese people think about the /t/ and /s/ sounds. So I always say think about rats, cats. So in English we have the sound of t s. The sound is there but it's at the back of the word. I want that sound moved forward to the C part. We can get it, my daily three meals a day So, I mean, there's another way to say it—you can say 一天 一天, which means one day. three meals a day 顿 three yeah I know three "Meal" is "飯" and "a serving of meal" is "頓". So you could say, one day, three meals—that's three meals a day, right? There are many ways to say it. Let's just say it: three meals a day, three meals a day. Can you read this? Yeah, yī tiān sān dùn. It dropped fàn right there. You go. three meals a day You can say 一日三餐, or you can say 一天三頓飯. Right, there are two ways to say it: one day, you can say one day is three meals a day. three meals one day three meals right read after me one day three meals How do you say "my three meals a day"? That's right, just add My, my daily three meals, my daily three meals or you could say "three meals a day, mine, my daily three meals" — is that better? My, my three meals a day. All right, let's go ahead and learn some Vocabulary: All right, read after me. Chinese food, Chinese food. Right, the character "餐" is hard for you guys. Western cuisine, Western cuisine, fast food, fast food Quite fast, what do you think a 餐 is? You got it—meal or our food. meal okay m e a l meal meal right Chinese food Chinese food Western food, fast food. Do you see there's a pattern? Do you see it? Yeah, there you go. You see, meal, meal, meal. All right, so let's go ahead. We're going to move to the second line, read after me: Flour wrapper, flour wrapper, flour strip, special waist strip Your lips have to move quite a bit before you can get the words out. Noodles, special thick noodles, wheat noodles, egg, egg, hit it with the fourth tone It's not egg, egg, egg. All right, your turn. Chinese food, you got it. Western food. Fast food, okay, if I ask you, what is Western food, can you tell me? Western cuisine—what is Chinese food? Chinese cuisine. Got it? What is fast food? Fast food, right? So what do you think 快 means? Fast, you got it. 西 means west, right? Western cuisine, all right, we're going to move to the bottom, the bread roll, right? If I point to you Uh, the picture, can you say it? Noodle soup. Okay, if I point to you, a bowl of noodles. Can you say "jī tiáo, jī tiáo"? Now go ahead and say "jī dàn." "Jī" is chicken, right? "Egg" is "egg," "chicken egg" — so you want to say "egg" directly instead of saying "chicken egg" all the time, right? That's what a lot of my students do. I'll drop the sound of chicken egg chicken egg chicken egg okay all right I want you to remember these words because in the end I will ask you what you have for breakfast what do you have For lunch, all right, we're going to move to the next slides. Okay, let's go ahead and read this together. Some you may already know milk, milk, cow milk, milk, right, juice, juice, fruit fruit juice juice juice a short version for Coca-Cola: just say cola Coca-Cola — the full version is Coca-Cola. For now, just remember: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola. Right, you try it, good sandwich, sandwich—doesn't it sound like a sandwich, doesn't it? Right, these are our direct translation of the sound of sandwich, "sanmingzhi". This is the meaning translation: "Hot dog" – "hot" means hot, "dog" means dog. I guess "sandwich" – "hot dog" is not. Chinese food—we don't know how to translate them, so we end up with just one being the sound and the other being the meaning. One is the meaning of "hot dog." The Chinese character "热" (rè) is hard for you guys because the Chinese "r" sound is really light; it's not like... In English, you have to open your mouth, whereas in French, the r is in your throat, or in Spanish, the r. The Chinese 'r' is light, light, light, very light, so you bite down with your upper teeth and lower teeth. then give me a very, very light There you go. Now you say "hot blend," that sound—hot dog, hot dog. Right? Pizza, pizza is pizza. Right, and it's all covered here—pizza. All right, we're gonna move to Chinese food now. and down at the bottom, Chao Mian, Chao Mian, I've heard my students like to order it many times chicken noodle or yeah chicken noodle and in Chinese restaurant and you can just say fried noodles Chicken Stir-Fried Noodles "Chicken" means chicken. "Shredded" refers to a type of meat cut. "Chicken Stir-Fried Noodles" or "Stir-Fried Noodles" Right, and you can say "beef noodle" or "beef and noodles," right? We're going to move on to "fried rice." Fried rice. So what do you think "chǎo" means here? You got it—stir-fry, right? Chinese food. You gotta stir-fry it—noodles, right? What do you think "mian" is? Noodles. "Fan" is rice, cooked rice. So "chao mian" is stir-fried noodles. Fried rice. How do you say stir-fried vegetables? You guys learned vegetable, right? "Cai" is hard for you to say if you just add "chao." Chao cai, chao cai is stir-frying. Stir-fry vegetables—there are times when, you know, sometimes you order Uh, a bento box, or even, you know, as long as it's in a box, we call it a bento. Bento box. "Bento" means a box, and "meshi" means a cooked meal. Bento box. The other one is "做飯." What do you think "做飯" is? To make a meal, uh, it's cooking, right? Very. Good, so do you see "Fàn Fàn Fàn" here? Read after me: "Chǎo Fàn", "Hé Fàn", "Zuò Fàn". Then this one, "chǎo miàn" and "chǎo fàn," has "chǎo" in it now—it's your turn. Do you recognize anything? Milk milk juice juice cola cola sandwich sandwich hot dog hot dog Pizza, pizza—that's an easy one. Fried noodles, fried noodles. Fried rice, fried rice. Boxed meals, boxed meals. The very last one, cooking, cooking. You got that right? Let's take a look. I'm going to put your learning into practice, right? I'm going to ask you a question. How many meals do you have each day? In a day, you can say "I eat two meals a day," or you can say "I eat." Right, three meals a day. Right, if you don't eat breakfast, you can say "I eat two meals a day." Is there anyone who eats only one meal a day every day? You can say: "I eat one meal a day." A meal—I sometimes think, why don't we just have one meal a day, so we can use the time to do other things you know, productive things, otherwise, and the three meals a day takes a lot of time; I was also told that three meals a day was actually designed for people who Actually have something like a job, um, like labor—meaning you have to work in the field, the stuff You normally have three meals a day; normally, if you're not hungry, don't eat three meals a day. That's just added to your waistline—that's all. I was also told that in China. In ancient times, people said "seven full, seven full," meaning seventy percent. Full is a good stage; you don't want to be too full. One hundred percent full is too much. Seven percent. Full, so let's say our stomach is about this much; seven percent full is about this much food. but about this much food, but it has to be real food, like the food growing from the ground Real food—take a look at our portion. Normally it's a huge plate, right? We have that much food. Sometimes in your stomach, our body doesn't recognize those foods, which is why you eat so much. especially genetically modified food or food that isn't really good, solid food and that's why you need that much—it takes about 15 minutes for your brain to register Just telling you, oh, I'm full, that's why the Chinese eat with chopsticks, so we eat slowly. About 15 minutes later, your brain tells you, "Oh, I'm full," if you've had a big hamburger. hamburger, right? You start eating it, and your brain hasn't even registered that you've already eaten one. A whole bunch of food, so eat slowly, right? You slow down, okay? Let's go back to what we're learning here. you can say one meal a day two meals a day Three meals a day, right? The same exact sentence about I added a bad is normally so you expand your sentence. It makes it more interesting; otherwise, it's very choppy and very short. You can start. You said You normally find this right generally usually you can just say Same structure, right? You just add here. All right, here's what I'm going to ask you—questions. What am I asking? What do you normally eat for breakfast? Can you answer that? We can go back to the slides. Let's say you can say Can you say Right, you can also add some juice. to drink Right, so you can start formulating sentences. Okay, now I'm going to move to lunch. What do you usually eat for lunch? What are you eating normally? Or do you often eat what? For lunch, now you can let's go back and see if we can find some vocabulary; you can say right, or you could say Like my students, they're all always, every time I ask him and They always say I was like, "Oh, everyday's pizza. Okay, then you can also say" right, or you could say or you could say Right, all this work. Let's go ahead and see if we can find dinner. your dinner which means what's your favorite dinner right now, read after me Can you answer that? Let's go back and find some vocabulary. All right, so you can say you can also say right, or you could say Would that work? That might work, or you could say It's all working out, so I want you to think about how to arrange your breakfast, lunch, and dinner. in a day and to say use what we learned, uh, to formulate some sentences, right? So or I'm I'm going to read the question to you one more time; read after me. What do you usually have for breakfast? Right, what is a question you just take a what off, you put food, whatever food, right here You need to switch, I usually have breakfast with bread and eggs. You can say "eat bread, eat eggs." Does it work? The Chinese sentence is a question; the answer is really easy—you just need to identify what the question is. Do you drop the question, or can you leave it blank and fill in your answer right there? That spot is right, and the switch needs to walk. What do you usually eat for lunch? You can say "I often have a sandwich for lunch," right? Sandwich—we just learned "sandwich." Favorite means favorite, what's your favorite thing to eat? dinner, then you can say "I like to eat noodles or fried rice the most for dinner," you can say "stir-fried noodles, stir-fried rice," anything you can Put that there, you can also, I'm going to teach you the next lesson, lesson on how to say steak and things. Alright, I think that's all we have for today. Alright, thank you, see you next time.