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Fixing Things 1: Key Words of The Day

This document provides three Chinese phrases for fixing common plumbing and home repair issues: 1) "Jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4" means "It's time to call a plumber". 2) "Ce4 suo2 du3 le" means "The toilet is stuck". 3) "Ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4" means "Fix the window screen". The document teaches these phrases through conversations between characters Yajie and Raymond, who are working to fix plumbing and home issues in their home.

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Fixing Things 1: Key Words of The Day

This document provides three Chinese phrases for fixing common plumbing and home repair issues: 1) "Jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4" means "It's time to call a plumber". 2) "Ce4 suo2 du3 le" means "The toilet is stuck". 3) "Ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4" means "Fix the window screen". The document teaches these phrases through conversations between characters Yajie and Raymond, who are working to fix plumbing and home issues in their home.

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Fixing Things 1

Y: Welcome to Chinese studio and today we’ve got a lot of broken things! Wo shi Yajie.
R: And Wo Shi Raymond. We sure do, and we’re going to find out how to fix em, or break
them so much that we will have to buy a new one.
Y: Lets listen to the key words of the day.

Key words of the day


a plumber 水管工 Its time to call a plumber. 叫个水管工来修一下。 The toilet is stuck. 厕所堵
了。Fix the window screen. 把纱窗修一下。All in today’s Chinese Studio.

R: Ok, we have a serious problem here.


Y: What is it?
R: The toilet isn’t working right.
Y: What are you talking about?
R: Well it’s not sucking in water, its shooting out water. It’s time you tell me how to call a
plumber. How do you say that in Chinese?
Y: Here it is: jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4.
R: jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4.
Y: jiao4 is to call,
R: jiao4,
Y: ge4 is short for yi2 ge4, which means one,
R: ge4,
Y: plumber is shui2 guan3 gong1.
R: shui2 guan3 gong1.
Y: lai2 is to be here,
R: lai2,
Y: xiu1 to fix,
R: xiu1,
Y: yi2 xia4 are used after a verb, indicating an act or an attempt,
R: yi2 xia4,
Y: jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4.
R: jiao4 ge4 shui2 guan3 gong1 lai2 xiu1 yi2 xia4. Its time to call a plumber.

Conversation 1
A: 下水道堵了。
B: 叫个水管工来修一下。

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Y: Hey your favorite plumber is here!
R: Hey that’s great. make sure you take him to the back. And maybe you want to give him a
gas mask.
Y: Yea, there wasn’t only water coming out of that toilet.
R: Now how do I tell him that the toilet is stuck, of course in Chinese,
Y: here we go… you can say: ce4 suo2 du3 le
R: ce4 suo2 du3 le
Y: ce4 suo3, the toilet,
R: ce4 suo3
Y: du3 le means stuck,
R: du3 le,
Y: ce4 suo2 du3 le
R: ce4 suo2 du3 le the toilet is stuck.

Conversation 2
A: 真难闻！是不是厕所堵了？
B: 没错，是厕所堵了。

R: Hey while the plumber’s here, I think he can fix the window screen, that’s broken. Y: Well
I’m not sure if a plumber can do that.
R: Anyways let’s tell him to “fix the window screen”.
Y: ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4.
R: ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4.
Y: ba3 is put before the object,
R: ba3,
Y: sha1 chuang1 is the window screen,
R: sha1 chuang1,
Y: xiu1 yi2 xia4. to fix,
R: xiu1 yi2 xia4.
Y: ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4
R: ba3 sha1 chuang1 xiu1 yi2 xia4 Fix the window screen.

Conversation 3
A: 纱窗也坏了。
B: 那就把纱窗也修一下。

R: Well besides that peculiar smell I think everything is going well.


Y: Ya, the toilet flushes and our favorite plumber is hooking up the gas perfectly.
R: Ok, now since we have no risk of fire whatsoever, lets go to the quiz of the day.
Y: How do you say “Its time to call a plumber” in Chinese?

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