Spring Break 春假 -3

Welcome to Speak Chinese Now, 我是李老师。 Today, we're still learning how to ask questions and we use the 春假 as our platform, as our occasion. But what you can do, you can switch 春假 to anything like a birthday, 生日, or 周末, right, 周末 is weekend. But let's go ahead and try 春假 first, 春假, spring break, because we just celebrated our, we just spent our spring break, finished our spring break. Then we can say, 春假的时候你在家做了什么? I'm going to break this down. 春假的时候, spring break during. So you have to flip this before you can make any sense. 春假的时候 is during spring break, or yeah, during that time, right? 你, 你 is you, 在家, at home, 做了什么? Did what? So what is our proper English here? During spring break, what did you do? What did you do at home? All right, let's go ahead and read this together. 春假的时候你在家做了什么? Let's see. Well, there's quite a bit of activities here. We're going to work on our vocab first, and then before we can put sentences together. All right, let's go ahead and read after me. 看书, 看书, 看书 is to read. As you see, 看, it means quite a bit, 看书 means read. If we say, 看电影 means to watch a movie, right? 看电视 to watch, there you go. So 看书 is to read, 看 by itself is to look, right? You can't just look at the book without reading it. That's why it's called 看书, right? 打电话, 打电话, 打 is to hit, left-hand side, and that means hand. So 打, to hit. I guess to hit the number or dialing in the past. So 打电话, 电, electric, right? 话 is speech. I guess you use sound, your speech is transferred by electricity. That's why it's called 打电话. Let's say it together. 打 电话, 发短信, 发 is to send, 短 is short, 信 is message or letter. So 发短信, 上网, 上 is get on, 网 is net. The same 网 as tennis, 打tennis, play tennis. If you play tennis, you use the same 网. As you see, 打球, 打球 is playing any kind of handball, like hand sports, but it's ball-shaped, right? For instance, 打篮球, 打篮球, play basketball. 打网球, use this 网, 打网球. It's tennis, you got it. Then 打棒球, 棒球 is baseball, yeah. 打曲棍球, right? 打曲棍球, 曲棍球. Let's see, is it, what do you call it? 打曲棍球. I can't remember how to say it in English. Anyway, 踢球, 踢 is to kick. So left-hand side means foot, you got to kick. So left-hand side, this one means to use your hand, right? The other one, this one means foot, got to kick it. So 踢球, 踢球 normally referring to a soccer game, right? We call it football. Most countries will call it a football, but America, it's called a soccer. And American football, it's a different sports, right? Okay, we're going to move to 骑, 骑 is to ride. To ride, ride kind of a small, like the seat has to be like this, it's called a 骑, right? 骑自行车, means vehicle, any kind of a, you know, vehicle. 自 is self, 行 is a propellant, 自行车. So once you give a little push, the pedals will go by itself. That's called 自行车. That means a single, single track, right? Although they have two wheels, but on the road, you see there's only one track. So it's called a 骑单车, or you can just say 骑车, 骑车. It's easier to say, but sometimes it can be confusing because there's also 汽车, if you don't hit the tone right, 汽车 means vehicle, like a passenger type of vehicle, 汽车. Then this one is a 骑车. I don't know if you can hear the difference. I think it's a safe, you just say 骑自行车, that's better. Okay, now we're going to start to ask you questions to see if you can answer them according to your own situation. Now, like I said, the 春假 can be switched to weekend, during the weekend, or we can say during your birthday party, you can switch to pretty much everything. Now we're going to use 春假 as our topic. 春假的时候,你有没有? Did you do or did you not do? So it's a question that you don't need a ma in the end. 你有没有看书? What am I asking? During spring break, did you read? You got it? So how would you say that? If you read a lot, you just say, 春假的时候,我, switching it to 我, 我看书了,我看书了. I read. 我看了很多书. I read a lot of books, right? You can say, 春假的时候, 你有没有打电话? Did you call anybody? You can say, 春假的时候,我打电话了, 我打电话了. My follow-up question would be, 你给谁打电话了? Who did you call? You can say, 我给我妈打电话了. I called my mom. 我给我妈, or 我妈妈打电话了. Right? Then, 春假的时候,你有没有发短信? Send messages. You can say, 春假的时候,我发短信了. My follow-up question would be, 你给谁发短信了? You can say, 我给我朋友,朋友 is friend. 我给我朋友 发短信了.春假的时候,你有没有上网? Most likely, 你上网了. So, you just say, 春假的时候,我上网了. Because it's a past tense, you need to add a 了. 了 looks like number three, but the leg is longer. 了 indicating a completion of an action, or it means past tense. Right? So, let's say, 春假的时候,你有没有打球? If you played, you can say, 春假的时候,我打球了. If you played tennis, you say, 我打网球了. If you played a soccer game, you just say, 我踢球了. Because it's spring, the weather is getting nice, and you may be out, 骑自行车. So, 春假的时候,你有没有骑自行车? If you went, you just say, 春假的时候,我骑自行车了. My follow-up question would be, 春假的时候,你跟谁,谁 is who, 你跟谁,with who, 你骑自行车了? You can say, if you went by yourself, you just say, 我自己,我自己,self, 我自己骑自行车了. If you went with your little brother, you can say, 我跟我的弟弟骑自行车了. Good? All right, here's a few more. Read after me, please. 滑雪,滑冰, so we know 雪, it's snow, 冰, it's ice, right? Two drops of water now, it's less water, right? Most of the time you see three drops of water, that's a lot of water. Two drops of water, less water, it's ice. 滑雪,滑冰, so what do you think 滑 is here? To slide, right? To slide, kind of gliding, yeah, 滑雪,滑冰. 那游泳,游泳, as you see, 游, left-hand side, they both have three drops of water. You got to be in the water to 游泳, okay? 看电视, right? Now, you can't just read 电视. Remember, we say 看书 is to read, 看电视 is to watch TV. 看 has many meanings, right? I'm going to ask you a question so you can answer me according to your own situation. 春假的时候,你有没有滑雪? If you went skiing, you can say, 春假的时候,我滑雪了。 In my area, it would be White Mountain. If you're in Colorado, you can say Vail or Aspen, right? You can say, 春假的时候,我去 White Mountain 滑雪了, right? Or you can say, 春假的时候,我去, choose to go or went, 我去 Vail 滑雪了, right? Now, you can say, 春假的时候, 我没有滑冰。 我没有滑冰。 I didn't skate. 我滑雪了, right? Now, 春假的时候, if you were in a warm place like a Mediterranean or Caribbean or even Florida, you probably went 游泳, right? You can say, 春假的时候,我游泳了。 我游泳了,但是水很冷。 The water is cold. 但是水很冷。 You can say that, right? Now, I'm going to move to 看电视. 春假的时候,你看电视了吗? 春假的时候,你看电视了吗? If you watched quite a bit TV, you can say, 春假的时候,我看电视了。 Or you can say, 我看了很多电视。 A lot of TV, right? You can say all that, right? 我看了很多电视。 So, you can start asking questions with these, you know, vocab. Like I said, 春假 can be switched to anything, right? You can say, 在家的时候, or if you were traveling, you can put a place here, right? Or if it's a weekend, you can say, 周末的时候。 I'm teaching you sentence structures, so that way you can just use them according to your own situation. Okay, that's all we have for today. 下次见。