Elementary | Finding the Office Building

0:00You wash your clothes when Chinese But Chinese but that's the way to The Chinese but Chinese but That's the way to the Chinese Chinese but Chinese but That's the way to the Chinese Hi Chinese pod elementary listeners my name is John Pasdon. Hey guys I'm Dilup and today it's an Elementary lesson. It's a practical lesson about What you do when you're arriving at a place like say An office park or something you're looking for someone Who has an office in there somewhere and you need to make a phone call to find out exactly where they are. Now you've seen everything that I'm supposed to say So why don't we listen to the dialogue first? Alright three times here we go The first time Hello I'm in the door now how do I go?

1:02After you come in there there's a big building Yes I saw it There's a shop in the big building. We're working in the third building Alright thank you One more thing The third Hello I'm in the door now how do I go? After you come in there there's a big building Yes I saw it There's a shop in the big building. We're working in the third building Okay thank you The third building Hello I'm in the door now how do I go? After you come in there there's a big building Yes I saw it

2:03There's a shop in the big building. We're working in the third building Okay thank you One more thing And now the translation Hello I'm in the door now how do I go? Hi I'm at the main entrance now where should I go? Hello I'm in the door now how do I go? Hi I'm at the main entrance now where should I go? Hello I'm in the door now how do I go? After you come in there'll be a large building on your left After you come in on your left hand side there will be a large building Then on your left-hand side, there will be a large building.

3:05Right, I see it. Right, I see it. I see it. Inside the building is an elevator. Our office is on the third floor. The building has an elevator. Our office is on the third floor. There is a elevator in the big building. Our office is on the third floor. Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks. Will this person find the third floor? Good luck. All right, so let's look at the first line.

4:09All right, so I think the first part of the sentence, I'm very useful phrase, especially when you're calling someone and asking for help. You gotta tell them where you are, right? Right, and it's a little confusing that there are two sides here. Right, the現在 has a在, and then the word... Yeah,在 someplace. But you have to repeat it, right? Yes, you have to. So the word now is現在. 現在, two fourth tones. Okay, two fourth tones, and then在, the exact same syllable also fourth tone. Right,我現在在大門口. All right, so let's look at that word,大門口. 門口 means entrance, right? That's right. And the tones are... Okay, but then we threw in a DA there, right? Fourth tone DA. It means it's big, it's the main entrance. Da門口, da門口. Okay, the main entrance.

5:11Now, when we talk about this da門口, are we talking about the entrance to the building or like the entrance to the office complex? Well, I think in this dialogue, she's at the entrance of the office park. Yeah, like there's a gate at the office park. And there may be many buildings in this park. All right, so that's why they're talking about it. You can see a building. But when you talk about a門口 or a DA門口, it could be an entrance to a building, right? Yes, yes, of course. Okay, got it. So in this case, she has just entered the park, and she wants to know where to go. Zemozou. Yao, zemozou. So zemozou, literally, how do I go? That means, you know, where should I go, right? Yes. And then we add in front of that. Yao, Yao, fourth tone. So Yao, what does that mean exactly here? Like a shud. So like, where should I go?

6:11Yes. Yao, zemozou. Okay, and then she gets further instructions, right? So this guy in the office, he said, Jinglai以後,在你的左邊,有一個大樓. All right, let's look at that first part by itself first. What is it? Jinglai以後. Jinglai以後. So Jinglai means come in. Exactly. And the tones are. Force and neutral. Jinglai. Okay, so you probably know Li means come. They literally say, Jinglai. Income, right? Enter, come. Never notice that. Never notice that we're reversed. Okay, so anyway, come in is. Jinglai. Okay, but it's after you come in, right? Right. Jinglai以後. So the word for after is. Okay, now notice this also comes after the verb.

7:11The word after comes after. I just remember this phrase. Jinglai以後. Jinglai以後. Okay, so the word order is quite different from English. You got to memorize this and practice it. Okay, so Jinglai以後, after you come in, what? Now this first phrase here is very similar to English. So literally it's kind of like on your left side. So a right side is what usually precedes a location, right? Where are you going to be doing something? What are the tones on the left side? On your left side, so what's on your left side? There is a big building. Right. So there is a big building. So there is a big building? Something. building. So big building again is...

8:12Da lo, forson second. Da lo. Da lo. Okay. So then she says that she sees the big building, right? Yes. Wokan dao la. Wokan dao la. So kandao meaning sea. Yes. I yet emphasised the result. Like yes. I see it. Okay. Now what if she said Wokan la? Is that right or wrong? It's not right. It's more like I looked at it. I looked at it. Oh, that would be weird. All right. So I see it. I have seen it. We have to say. Wokan dao la. Wokan dao la. Okay. So then we get more information about how to make it to the office, right? Right. Da lo裡面.有電梯. Da lo裡面.有電梯. All right. So there's that word Da lo again, right? And it's followed by a word.裡面.裡面. And the tones are... 第三聲和第四聲裡面. So裡面 means inside. 是的. So inside the big building, again, the order is reversed. It is...

9:15Da lo裡面. Da lo裡面. Okay. So that's the place. And in this place, there is what? 有電梯.電梯. Okay. Now you'll notice this pattern a lot in Chinese. First you have a place. And then you have a yo telling you there is something. And then we hear what there is in that place. Exactly. So in this case, there is a...電梯. So elevator and the tones are... they're four聲 first.電梯. Okay.電梯 is elevator. And then a little more information. So we're working in the same company. Yes, they're the same. But is this company? I know a company means company. Yes, literally, this word, company means company. However, sometimes quite often actually we use it to make office. Okay. So here we're talking about the location of

10:20the office. Yes. Our company is on the third floor. Okay. So is on this side. Fourth tone means is on.是的. And then third floor is... Okay. First tone and second tone. Low is second tone. Right. Right. Now let's take a look at these two sentences because they're two very important structures. The first one tells you what there is in a certain location. Right. Can we hear that one more time? So there is an elevator inside the big building. Yes. And then a second sentence tells us... We're a specific thing is where it's located. Right. What do you want to talk about? So that one we use... Right. So the first one uses yo telling us that there is something, something exists. And the second one uses zai and it tells us where something specific is located. That's quite important. But

11:26think about that too much is quite boring. Let's just practice more. Yeah, practice more. You'll get it. Okay. So then no problem with that information, right? And the final little phrase is... Yihua Jian. Yihua Jian. And the tones are... They're force, third and force. Yeah, there's some crazy tone changes going on here. Don't worry about it. Just remember it's Yihua Jian. Right. Yihua Jian. So that's like see you on a little while. See you soon. Right. How long is that? Is that like five minutes or... It's like soon in English. Yeah, but if I... What is the use soon? What if I'm planning to see you in like five hours, can I say Yihua Jian? I guess it's fine. What about if I'm going to see tomorrow, can I say Yihua Jian? No. See you tomorrow, Ming Tian Jian. Okay. Or you can just say Jian. That's a lot safer. That's true. Okay, but this is see you in a little while. Right. Yihua Jian. Yihua Jian. Okay, let's listen to that dialogue three more times. Welcome back to another installment of ChinesePod trivia.

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13:33The second line. Hello, I am now in the door. How do I go? In the back, there is a big building on your left. Yes, I see it. There is a shop in the big building. We are at the third floor. Okay, thank you. Yihua Jian. The third. Okay, so D in Lu, I have a question about elevators. Yes, what is that what's the word for elevator again? D&T D&T D sushun and D e sheng okay D&T all right that wasn't actually the question

14:35The question is you mentioned before there's something a little strange about a lot of elevators in China that it's nice to point out to people that have just arrived Oh, yeah, yeah, those are based on my own Experience because sometimes when you go into a fancy building and like you will see ten different elevators But they go to different levels they go to different floors. Oh, you mean they only go to certain floors sometimes like like what like elevator number one goes to the first floor to the tenth floor and Elever number two goes to the 20s floor to the 30s. Oh And they'll have signs telling you which floors they go to well sometimes they do sometimes the signs are like really small and you don't know and I'm like all ten different elevators. I don't know which elevator should that go so I went into an Elevator it goes to you know the 30s floor and like how do I go down to the second floor?

15:36So you could ask him right you could be like Sun low yow zimitsu that smart it's safer to ask first Usually there will be a security guard downstairs. Okay. I think I've heard about this I've heard that in some buildings like even floors and odd floors or different elevators. Is that true? It's very possible in China. I think it's changed a lot. So who knows and also when it goes to those big office parks You better ask first how to go to a certain building right? So it's a good idea to make a phone call or possibly ask the guard at the gate right at the Da Man Co. So hopefully this dialogue is very useful to you guys Yeah, but if you still have questions of course, you can always come to ChinesePod.com and ask us All right, we'll see you there. Bye. Bye.