[][][] Chinese blog 2: extra 518 SLOW CHINESE for PC

Source : Slow-Chinese
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If you have a tablet or a smartphone => extra 517

Bonus : in the frame below, just a nice bilingual dialog !

*	1	Boy	Māma, nǐ huítóu gěi wǒ zhǎo yīgè, gěi wǒ mǎi yīge ZHÈme dàde xié.	妈妈，你回头给我找一个给我买一个这么大的鞋	Mommy, can you find and buy me a shoe that's THIS big?
*	2	Dad	Nà shì xié háishì xiāngzi ya?	那是鞋还是箱子呀？	Is that a shoe or a suitcase?
*	3	Boy	Bùshì! Wǒ yíhòu chuān nèige xié	不是，我以后穿那个鞋。	No! Later [when I get older] I'm going to wear that shoe.
*	4	Dad	Nǐ yíhòu yě chuānbùliǎo, nǐ kàn bàba de xié duō dà gèr a. Nǐ zuìduō yě jiù zhǎngde xiàng bàba de jiǎo zhème dà. Hái néng bǐ bàba de jiǎo hái dà? Zài dà, dàde yě yǒuxiàn. Nǐ mǎi nème dà xié nǐ gànma? Càng zài lǐmian shuìjiào ya?	你以后也穿不了，你看爸爸的鞋多大个儿呀，你最多也就长得像爸爸的脚这么大，还能比爸爸的脚还大？再大，大得也有限。你买那么大鞋你干嘛？藏在里面睡觉呀？	You won't be able to wear it later. Look at how big Daddy's shoes are. At the most your feet will grow as big as Daddy's. Or will they be able grow bigger than Daddy's? Maybe bigger, but there's a limit. What do you buy such a big shoe for? Hide inside it and go to sleep?
*	5	Boy	Māma, Māma gěi wǒ tuō dào wàiguó qù.	妈妈，妈妈给我托到外国去	Mommy -- Mommy can send me off to a foreign country.
*	6	Dad	A, gěi nǐ tuōyùn dào wàiguó qù?	呵，给你托运到外国去？	Huh, ship you to a foreign country?
*	7	Boy	Duì.	对。	Yeah.
*	8	Dad	Gànmá qù ya? Dāng xiǎoniúdú mài le?	干嘛去呀？当小牛犊卖了？	Go for what? To be like sold like a little calf?
*	9	Boy	Shàng wàiguó wánwan	上外国玩玩。	Go to a foreign country to play / have some fun.
*	10	Dad	Wánrwanr zài huílai?	玩玩再回来？	Play and then come back?
*	11	Boy	Duì.	对	Right.
*	12	Dad	Nà, nà zěnme gěi nǐ tuō -- tuō chū qù ya? Zěnme gěi nǐ tuō chū qù ya?	那，那怎么给你托，托出去呀？怎么给你托出去呀？	Then, then how do we ship -- ship you over there? How do we ship you there?
*	13	Boy	A? Ná yīgè xié, fēng zài lǐtou, ránhòu gē kǒudàir lǐ, ránhòu -- du du du du du -- ránhòu bǎ wǒ dài fēijī shang, ránhòu dǎkāi xiédài, Māma dǎkāi xié, ránhòu wǒ yī kàn, zài wàimian yī kàn...	啊？拿一个鞋，封在里头，然后搁口袋儿里，然后。。。然后把我带飞机上，然后打开鞋带，妈妈打开鞋，然后我一看，在外面一看...	Huh? Take a shoe, seal me inside, then put it in a sack, then -- du du du du du -- then take me onto the airplane, then untie the shoestrings, Mommy opens the shoe, then I just look around -- outside just look and ...
*	14	Dad	... yī kàn, dé, biēsǐ le, méiyǒu yǎngqì, biēsǐ le.	一看，得，憋死了，没有氧气，憋死了	... look and -- oh no -- suffocated to death. No oxygen, so you suffocate to death.
*	15	Boy	Ránhòu, ránhòu yòu fēi fēi, fēi guòlai, ránhòu wǒ jiù tiào xiàlai, (bù qīngchu) (xiào shēng)	然后，然后又飞飞飞过来，然后我就跳下来，（不清楚）（笑声）	And then, then fly fly, fly back again, then I just jump down, (unclear) (laughter)
*	16	Dad	Nǐ yào qù wàiguó, qù něi guójiā ya?Nǐ xiǎng qù něi xiē guójiā ya?	你要去外国，去哪个国家呀？你想去哪些国家呀？	If you want to go to a foreign country, what country do you want to go to?What countries do you want to go to?
*	17	Boy	Qiānguó wànguó yā zhī lí!	千国万国压枝梨	Muddled line of a poem which reads "qiān duǒ wàn duǒ yā zhī dī."
*	18	Mom	Xiǎng qù nǎge guójiā ya?	想去哪个国家呀？	What country do you want to go to?
*	19	Boy	a ... Shānguó	嗯。。山国	uh, Mountain Country
*	20	Mom	Shānguó? Méi tīng shuō guo.	山国？没听说过	Mountain country? I haven't heard of that.
*	21	Boy	Jiùshi jiùshi dì shān (sān?) ge guó.	就是，就是第山（三？）个国。	It's just, it's really the mountain (the Three Kingdoms?) country.
*	22	Dad	Sānguó ya? Nà shì Sānguó Yǎnyì! Nà shì Zhōngguó de.	三国呀？那是三国演义！那是中国的。	The three kingdoms? That's the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! That's part of China.
*	23	Mom	Nǐ hē bu hē le?	你还喝不喝了？！	Are you going to drink or not?!
*	24	Dad	Háiyào qù shénme guójiā ya?	还要去什么国家呀？	What other country do you want to go to?
*	25	Boy	Làiguó... jiùshì Lài -- sh -- nèige guó	赖国。。。就是赖使那个。国	Lai Country... that's Lai -- sh -- that country.
*	26	Dad	Shénme jiào ... Lài sh? Něi guó ya?Xiǎoyǔ, guówài de, guójiā de míngzi dōu wàng le ba? Wàiguó nèixiē guójiā de míngzi dōu shìbushì dōu wàng le? ... a	什么叫。。？赖使？哪国呀？小雨，国外的，国家的名字都忘了吧？外国那些国家的名字都是不是都忘了？。。。啊	What's that? Lai sh? What country?Xiaoyu [name], you forgot all those foreign country names didn't you? Foreign places, those foreign country names -- you forgot them all, didn't you? ... right
*	27	Boy	Bù hē la	不喝啦	I won't drink any more
*	28	Boy	Wàiguó?	外国？	Foreign countries?
*	29	Mom	Dōu zhīdao nǎxiē guójiā? Shuōchūlai wǒ tīngting.	都知道哪些国家？说出来我听听	What countries do you know? Tell me, I'll listen.
*	30	Dad	Dōu shénme, wàiguó dōu yǒu nǎxiē guójiā ya?	都什么，外国都有哪些国家呀？	What are they? What sorts of countries are there?
*	31	Dad	Nǐ dōu shuōbuchūlai, Māma jiù bù dài nǐ qù le.	你都说不出来，妈妈就不带你去了	If you don't say them, Mommy won't take you there.
*	32	Mom	Bǐrú shuō, Měiguó	比如说，美国	Like, America
*	33	Boy	a?	啊？	yeah?
*	34	Mom	Bǐrú shuō, Měiguó, háiyǒu nǎr?	比如说，美国，还有哪儿？	Like America, where else?
*	35	Dad	Àodàlìyà	澳大利亚	Australia
*	36	Boy	Duì	对	Yeah
*	37	Dad	Nánfēi	南非	South Africa
*	38	Mom	Nǐ shuō	你说	Tell us.
*	39	Boy	Yìnzhōu!	印州！	Yin State!
*	40	Dad	Yìnzhōu?! Wǒde tiān, Yìnzhōu zài nǎr?	印州？！我的天，印州在哪儿？	Yin State?! My gosh, where is Yin State?
*	41	Mom	Nǐ yòu biān yīgè (xiào)	你又编一个（笑）	You made one up again (laughing)
*	42	Dad	Chuānhǎo le méiyou? Chuānhǎo zǒule, chīfàn qùle, zǒule.	穿好了没有？穿好走了，吃饭去了，走吧	Do you have your clothes all on? Get them all on and let's go, go eat lunch.
*	43	Dad	Zǒu ba!	走吧！	Let's go!

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ZOOM : simultaneously CTRL key + mouse scroll

!!! SELECT THE SAME LESSON IN THE 2nd AND 3rd BOXES !!!

AUDIO/ I place the mp3 player or click the mp3 link in the second box (blue)
---> 2nd box : move the cursor back and forth

TEXT/ in the 3rd box (orange),
I make the text scroll.
---> 3rd box : read the text

"text annotation" / copy the script and paste : http://mandarinspot.com/annotate
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