Spring Break 春假 -2

Welcome to Speak Chinese Now. 我是李老师。 Today, we're going to learn how to say the seasons then add into a question about where did you go during spring break because we just had our spring break, right? Let's go ahead and get started. All right. Read after me, please. Read after me, What do you think a 季节 is? Yeah, you got it. Season, right? My question would be What am I asking? Now is what season, right? In Chinese. But in English, it would be This is how you say it. Go ahead and read after me. It's right here. So during spring break, spring break is, you got it, This is not really spring flower, but you can say 草 is green, right? And grass, grass is turning green. You can say Bird is chirping. So that's So, after 春天, 是什么季节? 是夏天, right? After 夏天, 夏天以后是什么季节? 是秋天 After 秋天, 是什么季节? 是冬天, right? We just finished our 冬天, right? 冬天以后, 以后 is after. 冬天以后是什么季节? 冬天以后是春天, right? So, if I ask you Can you say Would that work? Yeah, it works. Spring, season. You can say that. So we're going to kind of switch 春天, 夏天, 秋天, 冬天 to 季, 季节的季, nice season. Let me ask you You can say Right? After 春季, 是什么季节? After 春季, 是夏季, right? Here's the 季, 夏季. You can say 夏天. I'll just teach you a different way to say things. 是夏季, 夏季以后是秋季, right? 秋季以后是冬季, right? 冬季以后是春季, I'm not sure if you guys learned before or after, right? Before is 以前, after is 以后, so we can make a whole lot of sentences by saying 秋天以后是夏天, right? After spring, it's summer, right? We can say 夏天以前是春天, right? Before summer, it is spring, so we can use 以前, 以后 to formulate sentences. Now, we're going back to this graphic, right? This graphic at first made me confused because I see 春天, that looks like 春天 to me, then the color here corresponding with 秋天, right? With the fall, with the autumn, then students recognize or realize there's a leaf falling, so we got a little confused here, right? And students were saying this is fall, that is summer, and that is winter. So spring and the winter, we have no issue here. We had a little confusion, so it made me think the color code, like when you code things with color, you have to be consistent. Otherwise, people are getting confused. This is in the same lesson, but they have different colors representing different seasons. It's confusing, even for me, but let's go ahead and read after me. So this, we think it is 春天, you got it. So if we move 夏天, this is some person with eyeglasses over here, and then there won't be any confusion, right? If we move 秋天, this color, 秋天 to this spot, there won't be any issues, we won't have trouble. So 秋天, right? Now 冬天, it's right here, right? It looks like a cold weather. So in short, when we say season, this is how you say it. 春 夏 秋 冬, right? That's for season. Read after me one more time. So we're taking 春 夏 秋 冬 from here. You drop 天, you don't need to say 天. Let's say 春 夏 秋 冬. Did you get that? And you can always say 春天, 春天来了, right? Spring's coming. Then 夏天, you can say 夏天很热, it's hot in the summer. 秋天很美, right? Spring, the fall, autumn, leaves are turning, so it's beautiful. Now you can say 冬天, 冬天很冷, right? Cold in the winter, right? Then, like I said, we can also use 春天 to substitute 春天 to 春季, about the season, right? This is about the weather, right? Not about the weather, about the season as well, but there are many ways to say it. You can say 春 夏 秋 冬 or you can say 春天 夏天 秋天 冬天. Then you can also say 春季 夏季 秋季 冬季. Isn't that cool? There's so many ways to say one thing. All right, so we're going back to spring break. What did I ask? 你去了哪里? That's right. This spring break, you went where, right? That's why we use 去了 and 了 indicating and it's a past, you know, past tense. 了 has many meanings, but 了 here, it means a past tense. Can you answer that? You can say 这个春假我去了 and take this off. 哪里 is where or not, right? You will put your answer right here on the spot. For instance, if you went to Hawaii, you can say 这个春假我去了夏威夷. How are you, right? If you went to Europe, it's 欧洲欧洲. Oops, let's go back here. 这个春假你去了哪里? You can say 这个春 假我去了欧洲欧洲. Let's say if you went to let's say Florida, 佛罗里达佛罗里达. So 这个春假你去了哪里? You can say 这个春假我去了佛罗里达. You can just put your answer where in this spot and you got a sentence going. Here's another one. You can ask people, have you, have you not, right? You say 你有没有去? Did you go or did you not go? It's a question, so you don't need the 吗 here. 你有没有去度假? Do you know where this is? Yeah, pizza tower. Have you been there before? 你有没有去 意大利度假? Right, 意大利 is Italy. 你有没有去意大利度假? If you didn't go, you just say 我没有去义大利度假。 Another question you can ask, you can say 你有没有去旅行? If you went travel, you just say 我去旅行了。 If you went on vacation, you just say 我去度假了。 If you didn't go anywhere, if you didn't go, you didn't travel, you just say 我没有去, or you drop you, 我, switch 你 to 我, 我没去度假, 我没去旅行, and just stay at home and rest at this, so you can say 我在家休息. We're going to learn more about travel, and we're also going to learn a little more about using spring break as our platform to teach sentence structures. All right, I hope you practice asking people 你有没有去, you can say 你有没有去游泳? 你有没有去吃饭? These can be switched to anything, verb, so the structure is always here, 你有没有去, then you can say 你有没有去吃饭? 你有没有去玩? 你有没有去度假? 你有没有去旅行? Well, I think that's all for today. 谢谢,下次见!