Two-Minute Chinese Lessons

We'll talk about food and restaurants in our first 3 lessons. Can someone listen and post what you can hear from the podcast?

Huan1 ying2! Welcome to the first Mandarin lesson. This is Paul. Chinese consider food is the number one important stuff in life. Who else doesn't ? Food is the basic needs of human being. So let's talk about food in our first lesson. 1) min2   yi2 shi2 wei2 tian1 (  people  consider food as heaven ) 2) chi1 fan4 (  eat    rice = have a meal ) 3) can1 guan3 ( meal house = restaurant ) 4)  ji 1 ( chicken ) 5) niu2 ( cow ) 6) yu2 ( fish ) 7) xia1 ( shrimp ) 8) rou4 ( meat )   9) cai4 ( dish or vegie ) 10) zhu1 ( pig ) If you master the above words, you may know how to say these: ji1 rou4 (chicken meat) niu2 rou4 (beef) zhu1 rou4 (pork ) yu2 rou4 (fish meat ) We'll learn more next time. See you.