Mandarin Lesson One: Food(1)

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.