What's The Weather Like Today

Welcome to Speak Chinese Now, I'm Teacher Li. Today, we're going to talk about the weather. Let's get started. Right, start from the top, right here. 晴天, bright sunshine. You can say 天晴 or 晴, don't mean the same thing. As you see, 晴 has a sun radical on the left-hand side, which gives you the hint, the sun's out, right? The other side, the right-hand side, gives you the sound of 晴. So, 晴天, let's say it together. 晴天, right? And the other one is, this cloudy, right? You can say 阴天, 阴天 works. Like 阴 and 阳, right? In Chinese, we say 阴阳, but in English, we say 阴阳. So that 阴 referring to that. It's no sun, right? And take a look on the right-hand side, it's a moon. So the sun's not there. So 阴天, right? Then, we have a lot of, it's cloudy. Cloudy day, you say 多云. 多云, 多 is a lot, 云 is cloud. So if you translate mean to English, it would be cloudy day, right? That works. Then you can say, of course, this is 下雨, 下雨, right? 下雨, how do you say snowing? 下雪, 下雪, right? 下雨, 下雪, very good. As you see down the bottom, they have other ways to say it. 晴天, that's what I like to say. So they also have to say, you can say 晴 or 天晴. The sky is, they say sky is 晴, the sun's out. And 阴天, they can say 阴天 or 天阴. But let's stay with 晴天, 阴天, 多云, 下雨. I think it makes more sense, right? Now, of course, when we ask you about how's the weather, we can say, hmm, in my time, my area. 今天的, 今天 is today. 今天的, then 天气, 天气 is weather, right? 今天的天气怎么样? 怎么样 is how? So the question is in the back of the sentence. Today's weather how? Not very good English, isn't it? So you have to flip it. You say, the translation would be, how's the weather today? How's the weather today? So it's basically every word order, you have to flip it and before you can get the sentence out. 今天的天气怎么样, right? There are times also, you know, think about, you have to give a weather forecast or the meteorologist has to give weather forecast. And they say, 天气, right, 天气. If it's a weather forecast, you say, 天气预报, 天气预报. 预报 is forecast, right? Okay, 预, it hasn't come yet, right? 报 is to report. They report something has not happened yet. So 预报 is forecast, right? Let's go ahead. I'm going to ask you questions. I will ask myself a question first. I'll give you my weather forecast. I'll give you my weather forecast or weather today. 今天的天气怎么样? I ask myself. So I'm here, ask myself, 今天的天气怎么样? I have to stick my head out and take a look. I say, 今天的天气很好. 为什么好呢? 因为是晴天,晴天, the sun's out, right? It's end of June, the sun's out, the perfect weather. Actually, we had a graduation for students today. I went to the graduation, just came back. So it's a beautiful day. Then we say, 今天的天气非常好, 因为是晴天, right, 因为是晴天. So I'm going to throw a question to you. 今天的天气怎么样? Where you are, right? You can report to me by saying, 今天的天气, either 晴天, or you can say, 今天阴天, right, cloudy. You can say, 今天多云, 阴天 is kind of an overcast, overcast. 多云 just means a lot of clouds, cloudy. So a little difference. Then you can just, you know, figure it out. If it's 阴天, overcast, or 多云, cloudy. If it's raining where you are, you can say, 今天, I will ask you, 今天的天气怎么样? You say, 今天下雨, 今天下雨. That's raining, right? Now, if it's somewhere, it's snowing, we're in the north hemisphere. If it's the southern hemisphere, maybe they're snowing there, right? You can say, 今天的天气, I'll ask you, 今天的天气怎么样? You can say, 今天下雪, 下雪, right? So it's snowing, right? We're going to see if we can learn a little more. And the same question, 今天的天气怎么样? So it's asking about the weather. So we'll learn a few more. You ready? First one, 晴天, right? 晴天, we learned, right? 多云, 多云, cloudy, right? And this is 局部多云, 局部 is partially, 局部, right? 多云, partial, overcloudy, no, cloudy, overcloudy. 局部多云, right? 局部多云. Okay, we're going to move to 多风, 多风. I don't think we say 多风, we just say 刮风, 刮 is like, so we say 刮风. 多风, we don't use that. I don't know who created this slideshow, but the slides. 多风, let's say 刮风. Okay, it's better. 多雨, a lot of rain, 多雨, you can say 下雨, right? 今天的天气怎么样? 今天刮风,今天下雨, that works better. I should make some corrections here. A few more, 暴风雨, 暴风雨, think about thunderstorm. I hope where you live, it don't have a lot of thunderstorm. The other day, in the afternoon, I was in my class, all of a sudden, it started pouring, and you know, I thought about 暴风雨, 暴风雨, right? It has, when they also have rain, and it's pouring down, and there may be, there may be what you call thunder. It's just 暴风雨, it's scary, 暴风雨, right? Then here we go, 闪电, 闪 is flash, 电 electric, electricity, right? So when they flash like that, you say 闪电, 今天闪电, 又有暴风雨, you can say that, right? If it's bad weather, 大雷 thunder, right? Really loud, you can say, 今天的天气不太好, 因为大雷, I hope it's not, right? 闪电, 暴风雨, oh, that's terrible weather. Then after all this troublesome weather, 彩虹 will reappear, reappear. So 彩虹, 彩 is color, 红 is the rainbow, right? 彩虹 is the rainbow will come out. You can say, 哦, 彩虹出来了, 彩虹出来了, it's coming out, right? So let's take a look, 多雾, 雾 is, think about London, right? 多雾, it's kind of, the visibility is not very good. So foggy day, you can say, 哦, 今天多雾, or 大雾, 大雾 is big, right? Kind of really hard to see, right? When you have 多雾, 大雾, 大雾天, and when you drive, be careful because it's hard to see. You don't know who's in front of you, right? Now, here it is, 多雪, a lot of snow. 今天天气怎么样? You can say, 下雪, use 下, 多 is a lot, a lot of snow, snow works, right? Here it is, 雨加雪, 雨 is rain, 雪, it is snow. 加 is kind of together, so 雨加雪 meaning it's raining and also it's snowing. That is bad weather, right? Stay home, right? Stay home. So we have 冰雹, 冰雹, I don't know if you guys have seen 冰雹 before. When I first came to the United States, I lived in Texas before, it's in May, sometimes they will have 冰雹. A lot of times you park outside, the 冰雹 just start coming and some of them are about soybean size, there are times olive size. In my area in New York, and I think it's last year or year before, during the summer, all of a sudden, you're in my car, normally it's parked in the garage, now parked outside and, right, 冰雹 started coming. Wow, I started hearing the sound and started hitting and the car hood, before you know it, there are like dents and bumps, whatever, it's on the hood, you have to go get repaired, 冰雹. A lot of times it's happening here in the summer, you're not really prepared, that's just terrible, right? Here it is, another one, 結冰, 結冰 is icy, icy. And think about it on the road in the winter, and the ice is kind of like, really on the ice, there are black ice as well, black ice meaning you can't really see, it's really slippery, 結冰. All right, very last one, 龍捲風, 龍捲風, 颱風, that reminds me of Taiwan, and the country on the coast, sometimes they experience 龍捲風, where we are, we don't have that. Our weather is pretty, I would say, protected. Then we have 晴天, I can ask you, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? Can you pick one to answer me? I will answer you first, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? 今天的天氣非常好, 非常好, it's very good, 非常好, 因為晴天, 因為是晴天, 太陽出來了, 太陽出來了, it's out, 太陽出來了, and I can keep saying, 沒有多雲, oh, that's too wordy, you just say 晴天, right? You pick one, if it's windy, you can say 多風, or 刮風, 刮大風, they're all words, 多雨, 多雨 means a lot of rain, you can say 下雨, 下雨 is better, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? You can say, 下大雨, it's like pouring rain, or you can say 下小雨, 下小雨 is kind of drizzling, it's different. So I want you to study this template right here, these about weather, and to be able to answer at least weather conditions, right? So here it is, 天氣怎麼樣? You can say, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? 今天 is today, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? Nowadays, you can just Google the weather, wherever you are, you can just find out, you don't really need to ask anybody anymore, not in the past. For instance, you have family living in, let's say, Asia country, and you're in the Americas, you don't know the weather, you ask people, 今天的天氣怎麼樣? 天氣怎麼樣? 你們那邊熱不熱? Is it hot? Or is it raining? 下不下雨? Or you can say, 下不下雪? If it's in the winter, right? Think about Australia right now, I'm sure they're having, Australia or New Zealand, their weather is opposite from where I am. So it's winter for them. Some of the conditions will be like a 冰雹, or other area, there may be thunder, right? There may be, what do you call it, thunder, and they have a 暴風雨. Some places like Taiwan, somewhere close to the coast, they have a 龍捲風. Those are in Florida, we also have a 龍捲風, right? So stay out there, be safe, watch the weather, watch 天氣, watch 天氣, right? I have many videos, and you can check out my other videos, and make sure to subscribe, and click like, and I will see you next time. 謝謝,下次見!