😊 My YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mandarinwithnana⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [with a lot of fun learning materials!]

😛 My Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/mandarinwithnana⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [subscribe to get transcripts with pinyin of all episodes!]

❤️ My Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/mandarin.withnana/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

嗨大家好，我是你们的普通话老师Nana。  

今天我的爸爸出去和朋友一起聚餐了。

聚餐就是gathering 聚餐

一起吃饭的意思。

他们在一起吃饭，通常都会喝酒。

而他们喝的酒一般会喝白酒。

白酒是什么酒呢？

白是white，酒是wine，那白酒难道是white wine？

是我们说的白葡萄酒吗？

不是的，其实白酒指的是Chinese wine, 是中国特有的一种酒。

它也不是用葡萄做的，而是用高粱做的。

高粱sorghum 高粱，所以白酒也就是高粱酒。

这种酒呢，酒精度数还挺高的，低的一些大概在三十度左右。

最常见的酒精度数是四十多度，或者五十多度。

而高的可以达到六十多度。

人们在喝酒的时候会用一种特别的计量单位：“两”和“斤”。

一斤等于半公斤，公斤就是kilogram。

所以一斤等于half kilogram 一斤。

而两呢？

一斤等于十两，所以“两”是一个更小一点的计量单位。

通常人们会说：“我能喝五两”“我能喝一斤”来表示自己的酒量。

或者大家会说：“我已经喝了三两了，不能再喝了，再喝就多了。”

诶，这个人一听，酒量可能不太好，像我一样。

大家觉得如果自己来喝白酒的话，能喝几两或者能喝几斤呢？

欢迎大家来留言告诉我。

你想不想尝试一下喝白酒呢？

Okay！那这边就是我们今天的内容了，我们下次再见吧，拜拜。

Hi everyone, I'm your Mandarin teacher Nana.

Today, my dad went out and had a gathering with his friends.

聚餐 means gathering. 

Meaning having a meal together

(When) they have a meal together, usually they would drink.

And the alcohol they drink usually is 白酒.

What is 白酒?

白 is white, 酒 is wine，don't tell me 白酒 is white wine？

Is it the white wine made with grapes that we're talking about?

No. Actually, 白酒 refers to Chinese wine (Chinese Baijiu), a *wine that is specifically Chinese,

It is not made with grapes but sorghum.

Is 白酒 is actually sorghum liquor (kaoliang liquor)

For this kind of liquor, the alcohol content is quite high. The low ones would be about 30%. 

The most common alcohol content is 40 plus %, or 50 plus %.

The high ones could reach 60 plus %.

When people drink they would use a special calculation unit: tael and catty.

One catty equals half a kilogram (kg).

So, one catty equals half a kilogram. 

What about tael?

One catty equals 10 taels. So, catty is a smaller unit of calculation.

Usually, people would say, 'I can drink 5 taels', 'I can drink 1 catty' to show how much they can drink.

Or people would say, 'I've had 3 taels already; can't drink anymore or it's too much'.

Ah? This guy sounds like he might not be able to drink a lot, just like me.

What do you think, if you are to have Chinese Baijiu, how much tael or catty can you have?

I welcome you to leave comments and let me know. 

Do you wanna try some Chinese Baijiu?

Okay! This is the content of today. See you next time. Bye bye!

* More accurately, it should be Chinese distilled spirit, a clear liquor made from sorghum and other grains, is one of the six major distilled spirits in the world, in addition to Brandy, Whisky, Vodka, Rum and Gin.