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Apartment Hunting

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ID: 0086 Pre Intermediate
So, you’ve hit the pavement looking for your flat. The real estate agent is suitably impressed with your Chinese, but what happens when he starts talking about all those rooms? Come along on this lesson and have a Mandarin Chinese tour of your potential apartment. Remember, you’ve only just begun. By the time you look at your 52nd apartment, you’ll have all these new words down pat.
Wed Jan 25 2006 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
介绍 jièshào to introduce
间 jiān [measure word]
厨房 chúfáng kitchen
旁边 pángbiān beside
你来看房吗？我给你介绍一下。
nǐ lái kàn fáng ma ？wǒ gěi nǐ jièshào yīxià 。
Are you coming to see the house? Let me introduce it to you.
好的。
hǎo de 。
OK.
这间是厨房，旁边是卫生间。这间是客厅，客厅后面是卧室。你觉得这房子怎么样？
zhè jiān shì chúfáng ，pángbiān shì wèishēngjiān 。zhè jiān shì kètīng ，kètīng hòumian shì wòshì 。nǐ juéde zhè fángzi zěnmeyàng ？
This is the kitchen. Next to it is the toilet. This is the living room and the bedroom is behind it. How do you feel about the house?
还可以。不过卫生间小了一点，客厅暗了一点。
hái kěyǐ 。bùguò wèishēngjiān xiǎo le yīdiǎn ，kètīng àn le yīdiǎn 。
It's OK. I think the toilet is a little bit small and the living room is a little bit dark.
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