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Mandarin Speaking Lesson: 1 (Raise up your question!)

I'm going to post some notes every week to let you know something about how people real communication everyday. It'll be in the most authentic / native way, maybe use some Beijing dialect.
I'll try to add English translation following, please correct me if there's anything wrong.

Beijing Dialect:
今儿中午我跟我哥们儿一起吃饭去了。
我骑车从学校到他们单位楼下,等了他一会儿。
他下来之后我们去了他们单位旁边儿的一个饭馆儿,一人吃了一红烧肉煲仔饭,还喝了俩汽水儿。
煲仔饭还真挺好吃,就是有点儿撑着了。

Mandarin:
今天中午我和我的朋友一起吃了饭。
我骑车从学校到他们公司楼下,等了他一会儿。
他从楼上下来以后我们去了他们公司旁边的一个餐馆,每个人吃了一份红烧肉煲仔饭,还喝了两瓶汽水。
煲仔饭很好吃,但我们都吃得太多,感觉有点撑。

English:
I went for lunch together with my friend this noon.
I ride bike to his office from campus, and waited a while.
We went to a restaurant after he went downstairs and met me, we took a 红烧肉煲仔饭 for each of us, and drank 2 bottles of mineral waters.
煲仔饭 is delicious and tasty, but we ate too much and felt stuffed.

May 20, 2015 4:59 AM