中文课Chinese class

New words

• 中文Zhōngwén — Chinese (language)
• 外语wàiyǔ — foreign language
• 课文kèwén — lesson text
• 本子běnzi — notebook
• 页yè — page

The story

王老师：上中文课了！请打开课本，看第十页。Time for Chinese class! Open your textbooks to page ten.

王老师：今天我们读课文。新的字，写在本子上。Today we're reading a text. Write the new words in your notebooks.

大卫：马克，你的本子真大！有多少页？Mark, your notebook is huge! How many pages does it have?

马克：五百页。这是我的中文本子。Five hundred. It's my Chinese notebook.

安娜：五百页？我的本子有二十页……Five hundred? My notebook has twenty pages...

王老师：中文是你们的外语。学外语，要多读。Chinese is a foreign language for you. To learn a foreign language, you have to read a lot.

王老师：马克，你读课文吧。Mark, you read the text.

马克：好。“我……的……猫……很……大……”OK. "My... cat... is... very... big..."

Opening the lesson…