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Survival Chinese Chapter 1 Lesson 3 Where’s the toilet?
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Okay, so now we have a new verb and it's Yo, yo, yo, okay? Yo no means to want, but actually means a lot of other things as well. But since we're not deep diving in Chinese in the shallow sort of ground, we can still just translate yo as to what simply. So yeah, now remember, we can just say I want that. And we don't even have to say hi. We could just say one two that we would say, yeah.

And then we just point a neighbor, your neighbor, your neighbor. Wonderful. If you wanted to, we could say war. Yo, nigga. Fantastic, isn't it? Okay, so that should be pretty straightforward.

You haven't changed anything. We've just added a little little sound, which is Yeah, and now all of a sudden, we can make a lot of sentences. Now, one more thing that I want to tell you is that Chinese has something that I call Shakespeare questions. It's like To be or not to be, we pose two different options and that makes the question So literally, like Shakespeare puts it, to be or not to be that is the question. So in Chinese here, we can say the positive and then we say the negative outcome, and by that we've actually The question and put person can just pick a wall, it's this or it's this, for instance, good or bad weather today, then the person says good, or the person says bad. And that's it.

Actually, you don't have to say yes or no, you don't have to say anything else you just answer with the question, which is quite nice. Actually, there'll be plenty more examples of that in this course, as well. So the idea here is first of all, we can apply it to for instance, good, which is how we can say hotma. And that means is it good? But another way to ask that same question is by saying how presenting the good option presented, the negative option would be Baja. Okay, we put those two together now and then we get what I call a Shakespeare question, which is basically means is it good or not?

Is it good? Basically, a question mark. So Ha, ha, ha ha, ha ha, fantastic, isn't it? Now we have Haha, and now we can change that into anything else is up? To be or not to be? Or is it like that or is it not?

Because sure if you remember that from before, sure, can mean to be or like, Is it correct? Is it so so we could say sure bullshit as that Good. So if you go, this is pineapple and then you just looking for confirmation you can go ship, ship, ship, ship, ship or ship. Fantastic. Now, again back to the yell now we can say how baja ship will ship and then the third one would now be yeah we are. So we can go up to anyone and go Yo Yo, yo yo.

And this is a very, very common thing that you'll hear because it's a bit more of a pushover a bit more pushy than just saying yo and then adding a ma at the end. Like what this question mark. So yeah, we are. So you'll see this one a lot in markets. And here's a little showcase of of how you can see it's being used in China. In real life.

Please enjoy an old video by the way, so quality might not be superb. No. Well, no. No, y'all, we all we all we all Bill, Bill. Yo Yo, no, no. Hi.

Can you? No, no? No. Yo, yo, yo, yo, why don't I really wonderful so we've got Yeah, we are or yo we are and then we can add an object like do you want that? Yo Yo, nigga. Yo, we are new.

We are we are Jayla, wonderful. Now we can also say do you want that? So we can say Yo, nigga and then we can just ask mark at the end. Remember that? Yo, nigga ma? Fantastic.

We can ask y'all to go Ma, do you want this one? We can also ask, which one do you want? yada, yada, yada. And remember all of these sensors that I've said so far, you can just put an ad in front of it as well if you want to be super clear about things, but the reason why I'm not doing that every time now is because one it doesn't sound as relaxed and and as native and local as the Chinese who would like it to be and also it just it's not what I want to focus on here. So there's no reason really to other than me unless you want to pretend looking perfect, fantastic. So yeah, we all you'll be all you'll be all my phones here.

There'll be our table. Do you want this message pretty nice I'll see in a bit. Anya Nia yada yada yada manga yo to me today

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