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This document is a dialogue in Mandarin Chinese between two speakers, ML and Stuart, discussing the time. They review telling time in Mandarin, with Stuart asking ML what time she will come tomorrow. ML initially says she will come at 6am, but then changes it to 6:30am and finally 8:30am. Stuart checks the time throughout and it progresses from 7:45am to 8:25am to 8:26am. At the end, Stuart jokingly asks ML for $10,000, and ML replies he is joking before saying goodbye.

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This document is a dialogue in Mandarin Chinese between two speakers, ML and Stuart, discussing the time. They review telling time in Mandarin, with Stuart asking ML what time she will come tomorrow. ML initially says she will come at 6am, but then changes it to 6:30am and finally 8:30am. Stuart checks the time throughout and it progresses from 7:45am to 8:25am to 8:26am. At the end, Stuart jokingly asks ML for $10,000, and ML replies he is joking before saying goodbye.

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What's the time now?

M: Péngyǒumen, nǐmen hǎo! Huānyíng nǐmen dào Xiànzài Xué Hànyǔ. Wǒ shì
ML.
S: Dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì Stuart. Today it's a revision lesson. 今天是复习课 jīntiān shì
fùxí kè. Don't forget to repeat everything with us, the louder the better.
M: Remember how to say ‘we were too full'? Dui le. 我们吃得太饱了.
S: Wǒmen chīde tài bǎole.
M: You ate so much food. 你吃了那么多菜 nǐ chīle nème duō cài.
S: 对, 太多了, tài duōle. I'm a bit tired. 我有点累.
M: What do you want to do now? 现在你想干什么? xiànzài ní xiǎng gàn shénme?
S:我想睡觉 wó xiǎng shuìjiào.
M: Hao, you go sleep, 你去睡觉 nǐ qù shuìjiào. I'll return home, 我回家 wǒ huí jiā.
S: After that nice break, everybody say, ‘I'll go and sleep'.
M: Hén hǎo. Wó qù shuìjiào, wó qù shuìjiào.
S: Now say, ‘I'll return home'.
M: Duìle! 我回家 wǒ huí jiā.
S: And can you say. ‘I'll go back'?
M: Méicuò! 我回去, wǒ huí qù.
S: What's the time now? 现在是几点? xiànzài shì jídiǎn?
M: Half-past ten. 十点半 shí diǎn bàn.
S: What time will you come tomorrow? 你明天几点钟来, nǐ míngtiān jídiǎnzhōng
lái?
M: Tomorrow morning 明天早晨，míngtiān zǎochén, 六点钟 liù diǎn zhōng.
S: liù diǎn, 你开玩笑! liù diǎn, nǐ kāiwánxiào!
M: Ok. 六点半，six thirty, liù diǎn bàn.
S: Liù diǎn bàn. kāiwánxiào!
M: 八点半，行不行 bā diǎn bàn, xíng bù xíng?
S: 8:30. bā diǎn bàn, bā diǎn bàn. Ok.
S: wǒ hěn lèi. xiànzài shì jí diǎn? Quarter past eleven! 十一点一刻 shí yī diǎn yī kè.
现在，我睡觉 xiànzài, wǒ shuìjiào.
S: jí diǎn le? 7:45, in the early morning! 早晨，七点三刻，zǎochen, 七 diǎn sān kè.
ML's coming at half-past eight! ML 要八点半来, ML yào bā diǎn bàn lái. I still have
45 minutes! 我还有四十五分钟 wǒ hái yǒu sì shí wǔ fēnzhōng.
M: No he doesn't!
S: wéi. 您好？nínhǎo?
M: 我是曼丽.
S: 曼丽，你说你八点半来，nǐ shuō nǐ bā diǎn bàn lái. 现在是七点三刻, xiànzài shì qī
diǎn sānkè.
M: bú dui. Now it's 8:25. 现在是八点二十五分. xiànzài shìbā diǎn èr shí wǔ fēn.

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S: 8:25?! bā diǎn èr shí wǔ fēn?
M: No, it's 8:26 now. xiànzài shì bā diǎn èr shí liù fēn. bā diǎn èr shí liù fēn.
S: bā diǎn èr shí wǔ fēn, bā diǎn èr shí liù6 fēn . So fussy!
M: Get most of it? Hén hǎo. Now it's time to xiàkè.
S: One more thing. ML, this time will you lend me ten thousand dollars?
M: 你开玩笑, kāiwánxiào!
S: ML is so mean! Zàijiàn.

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