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ID: 0865 Intermediate
You've always admired those Guilin paintings. You know the ones... winding river, limestone mountains... with the pagoda up on the right and that bamboo raft floating by in the foreground. Sometime they get a little crazy and throw in a water buffalo over there on the left. Well, now you too can do your own rendition. Sign up for this podcast, and get a Mandarin Chinese lesson in art. Masterpiece!
Mon Apr 28 2008 | Jenny , John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
选择 xuǎnzé choice
国画 guóhuà traditional Chinese painting
油画 yóuhuà oil painting
水彩 shuǐcǎi watercolor
你想学什么？
nǐ xiǎng xué shénme ？
What do you want to study?
我也不知道。选择太多了！国画、油画、水彩、素描......
wǒ yě bù zhīdào 。xuǎnzé tài duō le ！guóhuà 、yóuhuà 、shuǐcǎi 、sùmiáo ......
I don't know. There is so much to choose from! Traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor, drawing...
我们一点基础都没有，还是学个简单的吧。
wǒmen yīdiǎn jīchǔ dōu méiyǒu ，háishì xué ge jiǎndān de ba 。
We don't even know the basics, we had better study something simple.
有道理。那，你说哪种好学？
yǒu dàolǐ 。nà ，nǐ shuō nǎ zhǒng hǎoxué ？
That makes sense. Tell me which one is easy to learn.
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