Hi, and welcome to today's episode on ChinesePod.
My name is Joe.
嗨，大家好，欢迎来到中文播客。
我是庆琳。
In today's episode, we are going to
talk about welcoming people,
and you may already know the word for
"to welcome somebody", because Lyn always
uses this when she welcomes you to our classes.
欢迎来到中文播客。
So "欢迎" is "to welcome" and
let's check on the dialogue now.
Before we talk about the details,
let's check out the dialogue line by line.
Our dialogue starts with a "welcome".
So here you find this "welcome" word which
was just mentioned already, that's
But together those four characters,
is like a set phrase that you often
hear in many places that are
related to the service industry.
So what kind of places would that be?
A convenience store.
Or a restaurant.
But the guy in there, he's like,
he doesn't really understand.
So he says,
"I'm sorry, I don't understand."
So the first phase is "sorry".
And you can say this to say sorry for
something that you've done as well.
Okay, well he's like,
"sorry, I don't understand."
So the second part we have here,
this "I don't understand",
this is a three word combination.
And this is built up of the verb "to listen".
And then two other characters together that
imply that you don't understand something.
And "懂" means "to understand".
So this kind of combination is like,
"I listen to it but I don't understand".
And we have these kind of combinations
rather often in Chinese, where
we have first a verb, and then a
non-achieved result in the end.
So for instance you can have the same with
"I don't understand", but, like, from looking.
Like, if you don't understand by
reading something or seeing something,
then you could say,
So
would be "to see", so
"I am seeing but I don't understand".
And we have similar structures as well
with other results in the end, so
for instance, what is
"to learn something" in Chinese?
"学", but normally you should be able
to do something when you learn something.
But if you're not able to do something
after you learn something,
how would you say that?
And together, that would be, like,
"I'm learning but I don't understand",
"I'm not able to".
And another common phrase you have is here
for instance related to eating.
You may be completely full, you can say,
I'm eating, or I want to eat, kind of,
but there is no space anywhere to put it down.
So what could you say here?
So
is "to eat",
is like, "not down", it's not going down,
I'm eating, it's not going down, I'm full.
Okay, so here we had
"I listened and I don't understand",
"I don't understand what you said".
What was that again?
Why doesn't he understand?
Maybe it was too quick.
You have like this....
this is a little bit hard
for us to understand.
And yeah, this set phrase comes
in various ways of saying it,
sometimes super quick,
sometimes super happy and
some stores even go as far as like,
telling their staff to sing it.
So this can make it a little bit tough
for us to understand at first.
And then of course, here the guy is like,
"what... what did you say?"
And this sentence follows a simple structure
of subject-verb-object here.
So we have to subject which is "you".
Then "to say",
And "what",
So, "what did you say?"
And then the staff member is like,
"I said, 'Welcome'."
Now that we know what she said,
we can talk about this phrase
in a little bit more detail.
So in the beginning of this welcome
set phrase, we have the verb,
"to welcome somebody".
So I could use this to say, "I welcome you".
But in this phrase that the staff members
use, we have two other characters,
and the first one here is "light".
And then the other one means "to arrive",
or "arrival".
So together it's like, "I welcome you
that your light arrives", so here it's
probably the light of the customer.
So it's very very polite to say this,
and you'll hear it everywhere.
So "I welcome you customers
to shine your light."
And can I use this when I maybe
receive somebody at home and say,
like, "hey, welcome to my place",
不可以。
Okay.
我们说，
Ah, ok, so twice the "欢迎" part,
just the "welcome" part, and
twice because you're happy or
just polite so both works.
也可以说
Ah, like "welcome you to come to my place".
That's a little bit similar to the thing
you say in the beginning of
our ChinesePod videos right?
Lyn, I think there was a song
with "欢迎" inside, I think the marketing song
for the Beijing Olympics or something,
like, "北京欢迎你"...
哦，这个我会。
Okay so if you know that song
and can sing it,
好。
Bravo.
谢谢。
After hearing so many different versions of
you guys should be able to understand
this as well, no matter where or how
you hear it.
And now the guy in the dialogue
understood as well, he's like,
"got it, thanks".
懂了，谢谢
Here again we have the verb,
"to understand".
And here in combination with the
particle that indicates a change.
And here the change fits quite well
because he changed from not
understanding it to understanding it.
And then he's in the end just,
"thank you".
So, did you guys understand all of it?
Let's check out the dialogue again.
In today's lesson, we have talked about the
different ways of welcoming somebody.
And you have learnt how you can say that you
understand something or don't understand something.
Joe，我考你。
You will test me?
嗯。
欢迎光临
Okay, a very quick "welcome".
还有一个
谢光临。
Okay, right. I think I heard a "谢"
which is short for "thank you",
so "thank you for shining your light on us".
So, "thank you for coming."
And thank you for watching our episode today,
if you have any questions, let us know
in the comments section below.
My name is Joe.
我是庆琳。
下次见，拜拜！