Accent Reduction: Elocution and Intonation

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这里是one minute Chinese, 中文一分钟，每天都不同！ 我们一起听一分钟，想一分钟，说一分钟，今天的话题是一碗(wan3,bowl,measure word)米饭(mi3fan4,rice)从哪里来？
如果我问，你知道一碗米饭是从哪里来的吗？有的人可能会说，从厨房里来，妈妈准备好了；有人可能会说，是从商店里来的，我们工作赚钱把大米买回来，再用锅把它煮好，变成米饭，才能吃；还有些人会说，一碗米饭是从农民(nong2min2, farmer)那里来，春天把种子(zhong3zi, seeds)种(zhong4,to sow)下去，每天浇水(jiao1shui3, watering)施肥(shi1fei2,apply fertilizer)，工作一年，大米才长大可以卖；也还有一些人可能会这样说，一碗米饭从天地之间来，空气，泥土，雨水，大自然里的一切，赐(ci4,given by the God)给我们可以吃的食物。我想，正是因为上面的这些答案，所以，我们很多人会在吃饭之前，感谢和祈祷(qi3dao3, to pray)。感谢爸爸妈妈，感谢工作赚钱的人，感谢卖米的人，感谢农民，感谢大自然！感谢一切！ 希望大家有饭吃，有工作做，能生活在美好的大自然里，希望一切都好。

One minute Chinese

Episode 4 一碗米饭从哪里来？ Where does a bowl of rice come from?

Amrutham 

Conjugation for female in past tense and some vocabulary

PATTY: I’m really excited for Aunt Mary’s surprise birthday party
this afternoon! Aren’t you?
SUSAN: Yeah! How old is she?
PATTY:  She’ll be 55 on May 14 [fourteenth].
SUSAN: Wow! I didn’t know that my mom was older — she’s going
to be 57 on September 2 [second]. Anyway, Aunt Mary’s 
going to be so surprised to see us all here!
PATTY: I know! But we still have to get all the food set up before 
she gets here … OK! We’re all ready now. Shh! She’s here!
ALL: Surprise!


LANGUAGE NOTES
• I’m really excited … Notice the emphasis on “really.” “Really” is used to emphasize the 
adjective “excited” here.
• Birthday party Notice that the normal stress for a compound noun falls on the first 
element of the compound.
• Aren’t you? This negative tag is used to show that the speaker expects a positive 
answer. Patty assumes that Susan is also looking forward to the party.
• She’ll be 55 Notice that “55” is stressed here. This detail answers the question “How 
old is she?”
• Fourteenth Notice that we use “th” for ordinal numbers, starting with 4 [but first, 
second and third]. The stress is on the second syllable [fourTEENTH]. Compare this with 
“fortieth: 40th” [FORtieth].
• She’s going to be ... Notice how this is pronounced like “gonna be.” Instead of four 
syllables “go/ing/to/be” there are three syllables “ga/na/be.”

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 20: Birthdays

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