I don’t understand

Survival Chinese Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Basic Phrases – language
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Wonderful. So in the last video we learned Yes. And that gave us so many different things. For one it meant I'm sorry, the other one, what does it mean? And the third one was, it's interesting. I love our Chinese words.

Look at that. Again, in English, we have three words for those. And in Chinese, you just have to switch one word around a little bit. And you can create those different meanings. I love it, just use what you have already. And for new things, I think that's brilliant, and very time, not consuming time.

Less consuming, not not time consuming, I guess. And the next thing we're going to work with now is Don, Don, okay, and that means to understand. So whenever you don't understand someone, you just say, put on, put on, and this is actually one of my mom's favorite expressions. It's the one that sticks in her head. Regardless of what she does. She has a tendency of forgetting things, and no offense here.

My mom would very much agree with me here. But somehow this put on just sticks with her and she never forgets it. I can probably understand why. And that's probably because it sounds quite funny. First of all, we can have a listen where my mom pronounces it. Not that you should remember how she pronounces it but just so that you can get the same funny association to it that she gets.

How do you say I don't understand? Well don't put on, put on, put on water. My mom By the way, say Mama, Mama. Wonderful. So that was put on and now just to clarify it a little bit. This is how it actually is supposed to sound like from a Chinese person.

Well da ba da ba da

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