A Visit to the Dry Cleaners:
Dating a fashion designer, or just want your shirt starched? Consider yourself in luck: our lesson for
today takes place in a dry cleaning store and goes over all the vocab you'll need to start scintillating
conversations about pants with anyone who will listen. Designed for early elementary students, this
podcast will teach you how to get your dry cleaning done in mandarin, and share a critical trick you can
use to avoid being given someone else's clothing.
Text :
xiǎojie ， nǐhǎo ， wǒ lái qǔ yīfu 。 gěi nǐ wǒ de piào 。
Hello Miss. I'm here to pick up my clothes. Here is my ticket.
zhè shì nín de yīfu 。
Here are your clothes.
en ？ zhè shì wǒ de yīfu ma ？
Huh? These are my clothes?
bùshì ma ？
Aren't they?
yánsè bù duì ， dàxiǎo yě bù duì ， kuǎnshì dōu bù duì ！ wǒ shì nǚrén 。
The colors are wrong. The size is wrong. The style is also wrong! I'm a woman.
nà ， zhè shì shéi de yīfu ？
Then whose clothes are these?
ā ， wǒ de yīfu 。 xièxie 。
These are my clothes. Thank you.
Vocabulary :
乾洗店
gānxǐdiàn
取
衣服
票
qǔ
yīfu
piào
dry-cleaning
store
to take
clothing
ticket
noun
verb
noun
noun
不是嗎
顏色
大小
款式
號
褲子
襯衫
裙子
連衣裙
襪子
bùshì ma
yánsè
dàxiǎo
kuǎnshì
hào
kùzi
chènshān
qúnzi
liányīqún
wàzi
aren't they
color
size
style
fit-size
pants
shirt
skirt
dress
socks
phrase
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun