Hello welcome back, you should know how to say I can speak a little chinese by now. That
would be wǒ huì shuō yì diǎn r zhōng wén. Now let's learn how to say the english
language, it's yīng wén, yīng wén. Well, english people speak english so you need to
take Yīng guó, England. Drop guó, the country, and add wén, the language. Then you'll get
yīng wén, the english language. Usually if a country name contains the component guó,
country. You need to drop guó, country and add wén language. And then you will get the
chinese word for the language of that country. For example, France is fǎ guó, now drop
guó and add wén and you will get the word for the french language, which is fǎ wén.
Germany is called dé guó. Because in German, germany is call Deutschland. We took the De
sound and make Germany dé guó. Now to form the word The German language, you need to
drop guó in dé guó and add wén, then you will get the word for the German language,
dé wén. However, please know that lots of countries' name dont have the word guó in
them. For example, Italy in chinese is yì dà lì, it doesn't have the word component
guó, country in it. Canada is jiā ná dà, Australia is ào dà lì yà. Neither Canada
nor Australia contains the word component guó country. For countries whose names don't
contain the component guó, you can just add a component wén, and you will get the language
name. For example, the Italian language is yì dà lì wén. Well of course, Australians
and Canadians speak english, so they speak yīng wén. Please don't call the english
language měi wén. The english language is yīng wén. After all, měi guó rén, Americans,
shuō, speak yīng wén, English. American speak english, not American. Now say I can
speak English, wǒ huì shuō yīng wén. Good. Now let's learn the word 'and' so that
you can say I can speak english and a little chinese. This is how you say 'and' in this
sentence, hé, hé. The pinyin spelling of hé is h-e, second tone. The english letter
e is pronounced as uh and sort of sounds like uh in english. Now repeat after me, hé, hé.
Hé can mean both the word with and word ' and'. Now you say english and chinese, yīng wén
hé zhōng wén, yīng wén hé zhōng wén. Now say I can speak, wǒ huì shuō, wǒ huì
shuō. Now let's put them together and say I can speak english and chinese. Wǒ huì
shuō yīng wén hè zhōng wén. Ok , let's add the phrase 'a little' yì diǎn r and
say I can speak english and a little chinese. Wǒ huì shuō yīng wén hè yì diǎn r
zhōng wén. Again, wǒ huì shuō yīng wén hé yì diǎn r zhōng wén. Here's something
I need to emphasize here. The word hé means 'and', but you cannot use the chinese word
hé the same way as you use the english word 'and'. Please don't assume the chinese word
hé and the english word 'and' function the same way grammatically in both languages.
They don't. The chinese word hé can only connect words or phrases. It cannot connect
sentences. In english you can say I'm John and I'm American. Here you cannot translate
the word 'and' to hé, because hé cannot connect to sentences. As a matter of fact,
we use the word 'and' a lot less in chinese than it is used in english. In chinese we
simply say, I'm John period. I'm American period. We don't need any connection word
in between the sentences. Great. For now just remember this, hé means 'and' and with and
it cannot connect sentences. Ok, now let's say this again. I can speak english and a
little chinese. Wǒ huì shuō yīng wén hé yì diǎn r zhōng wén. Great. In our
next lesson, we are going to learn how to turn all these statements into yes or no questions.
Alright, zài jiàn.