I Have A Cold

Welcome to Speak Chinese Now. 我是李老师。 Today we have a prompt for my students. It's basically calling your teacher if you're sick, right? How do you say all that? So you woke up this morning not feeling well. You need to be able to say 我生病了。 我生病了。 I'm sick. You have to be able to call your teacher, explain what happened to you, and explain your symptoms, right? So we're going to start from some simple symptoms. Let's say 感冒. 感冒. 感冒 is to have a cold. Call it a cold. 发烧. 发烧. 发烧 is to have a fever. If you have a high fever, you just say 发高烧, high fever, right? The other things such as 头痛, 头痛, or you can say 头疼, 头疼, right? Northern part of Chinese like to say 头痛, not 头疼. Southern part like to say 头痛. Now also have to say 医生, 大夫, right? Take a look at 大. That looks like a 大 to me, isn't it? And this is the only time that you say 大夫. You don't say 大夫. Now 医生, 医院, right? 医生, 医院. There you go. Now this is how we say it. 我生病了。 I'm sick. 我生病了。 生病了。 生病了。 You can say 我生病了, or you say 我昨天生病了, right? You can add different things. You can also say she is sick. You can say 她生病了, right? Now this is from my student. He said 我真的生病了, meaning I'm really, really sick. I'm not faking it. 我真的生病了. So he doesn't feel like 生病了 is enough to address his issue. He has to say 我真的生病了, I'm really sick, right? Okay, we're going to work on 疼. 疼 equals 痛. So northern part of China where I came from, we like to say 疼. Southern part like to say, southern part of people like to say 痛. They're exactly the same, meaning aching, pain, yeah. So if we say I have a headache, you can say 我头疼, 我头疼, right here. This young lady says 我头痛, I've got a headache. 头痛, 头痛, right? And you can say basically pretty much everything. If you say 我手疼, you can say my hand hurts, right? You can also say my eye hurts, right? You say 我眼睛疼, right? Or you can say my nose hurts. You can say 我鼻子疼. If your teeth hurt, you can say 我牙疼, 牙疼. So you can say 痛 as well. It depends on how you like to remember it. I like to say 疼. That's where I was brought up at the same time. My students also ask me how to say itchy. So they say 痒. If your head itchy, you say 我头痒, head itchy. If your nose itchy, you say 我鼻子痒, right? If you have an allergy, your eyes is going to hurt, itchy. At the same time, you can say 我的眼睛又疼又痒, right? Both hurting and also itchy at the same time. 又疼又痒. Now we also have 拉肚子, diarrhea. 拉肚子. Take a look at this young man. He's sitting there reaching out to toilet paper. 拉肚子, 拉肚子, diarrhea. 发烧, 发烧 is right here. 发烧, 烧 is burning, right? 发烧 is have a fever. And if you really have a, you can say 发高烧, 发高烧 is have high fever. If you have a low fever, you say 发低烧, 发低烧, right? 高 and 低. Then 感冒. Say 感冒了, 我感冒了. I have a cold. And you got to wear your mask. 我感冒了, right? So we start from here. 我生病了, right? And call your teacher by saying 我生病了, or call your boss and say 我今天不舒服, I don't feel good. 我生病了, I find a place that is hurting. You can say 我头疼, or 我头痛. Both are good, right? I don't think if your head is itchy, you can take a day off. If your headache, you may be able to take a day off. So if you're 拉肚子, right? If you have diarrhea, you can say 我今天拉肚子, 我昨天没吃好. I didn't eat well last night. Or 我昨天没吃好, I didn't eat well last night. 所以我拉肚子, so I have diarrhea. I caught a cold. 昨天我衣服没穿够, 所以我感冒了, 所以我感冒了. 今天早上我发烧了. That's all you can say, right? You can say anything add to it, right? All right. So here is, I think that's the same slides we had. 我生病了, I'm ill, I don't feel good. 我生病了, 我真的生病了. So what, okay, here's what's the difference when I ask you 你怎么了? 你怎么了? What happened to you? What's the matter? What happened? So you say 你怎么了? You can say 我生病了, I'm sick. 我生病了. 你怎么了? You can say 我头疼, I've got a headache. I can keep asking you 你怎么了? You can say 我头痛, 头痛 means the same as 头疼, they're the same. You can say 你怎么了? You can say 我眼睛痒, allergy. 我眼睛痒, my eyes are itchy. 你怎么了? What happened to you? You can say 我拉肚子, I have a diarrhea right here. 你怎么了? What's the matter with you? You can say 我发烧了, I have a fever. Or you have a high fever, you say 我发高烧, 我发高烧. Yeah, if you have a low fever, you say 我发低烧, 我发低烧. Now you can say, I'm going to ask you 你怎么了? You can say 我感冒了, 我感冒了. I have a cold. Right? Now, so here is a little more extra. So the prompt is I woke up this morning and we're not feeling well, right? So you make a phone call, you can call your teacher or your boss, basically reporting your symptoms, right? And what you have. So you make a phone call. So 你好, 你好, 老师好, 哎呀, 我今天生病了, I don't feel good, I'm ill. Then teacher says 你怎么了? What happened to you? You can say 哎呀, 我头痛, I got a headache. 我没睡好觉, I didn't sleep well. You can say, you can also say 我拉肚子, I have diarrhea, I ate something bad. 我吃错, 不是吃错药了, 我吃, 我没吃好, 我没吃对, 我肚子疼. That works. 你怎么了? What happened? 哎呀, 我感冒了, 我感冒了, it's flu season, 所以我感冒了, 然后我还发烧, 还发烧. The teacher probably will follow up by saying 你去看医生了吗?医生, right here, 医生, 医生. 医生 also called 大夫, so this word actually, you learned probably as 大, you can call it 大夫, you cannot say 大夫, this is probably the only time you have to say 大夫, this 大, I pronounce as 大, so let's say 大夫, 医生, whichever one is easy for you. 你去看医生了吗? 我去了, 我去了, I went, I went. 你去看医生, 你去看大夫了吗?看大夫是 visiting a doctor, right, 看医生, it's visiting a doctor, doctor visits. You can say 我没去, I didn't go, 我没去. I can also keep asking by saying 你去医院了吗? Did you go to hospital? If you went, you just say 我去了, 我去了, if you didn't go, you just say 我没去, 我没去, so teacher probably will just say stay home and rest a little bit, drink more water, right, that's it, that's all we have for today. 谢谢, 下次见, I have more videos, so please make sure to subscribe, follow me, and keep learning.