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Asking About Date and Time


Vocabulary
  1. 日期(号) rì qī (hào): date
  2. 明天 míng tiān: tomorrow
  3. 昨天 zuó tiān: yesterday
  4. 月 yuè: month
  5. 出差 chū chāi: take a business trip
  6. 星期一 xīng qī yī: Monday
  7. 星期二 xīng qī èr: Tuesday
  8. 星期三 xīng qī sān: Wednesday
  9. 星期四 xīng qī sì: Thursday
  10. 星期五 xīng qī wŭ: Friday
  11. 星期六 xīng qī liù: Saturday
  12. 星期日 xīng qī rì: Sunday

Read on to see Mike and his colleage Wang Li address talking about date, days of the week, and time.

mài kè: jīn tiān jĭ hào?
麦克: 今天几号? 
Mike:  What's the date today? 

wáng lì: jīn tiān shí qī hào.
王丽: 今天十七号。 
Wang Li:  Today is the seventeenth. 

mài kè: míng tiān xīng qī jĭ?
麦克: 明天星期几? 
Mike:  What day is tomorrow?

wáng lì: míng tiān xīng qī rì.
王丽: 明天星期日。 
Wang Li:  Tomorrow is Sunday.

mài kè: zuó tiān shì xīng qī sì ma?
麦克: 昨天是星期四吗? 
Mike:  Was yesterday Thursday?

wáng lì: zuó tiān bú shì xīng qī sì, shì xīng qī wŭ.
王丽: 昨天不是星期四,是星期五。 
Wang Li:  No, yesterday was Friday, not Thursday.

mài kè: nĭ shén me shí hòu qù chū chāi? 
麦克: 你什么时候去出差? 
Mike:  When will you go on a business trip?

wáng lì: liù yuè èr shí sān hào. 
王丽: 六月二十三号。 
Wang Li:  On June twenty-third.

mài kè: nĭ zài nà lĭ dāi duō cháng shí jiān?
麦克: 你在那里呆多长时间? 
Mike:  How long will you stay there?

wáng lì: dà yuē liăng gè yuè.
王丽: 大约两个月。 

Wang Li:  About two months.
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