Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Unit 10 Ji nsh y u Zh nggu t s de sh hu zh y Establish possess Chinese special quality DE socialism Establish a socialism with special Chinese characteristics Slogan on the wall of a new factory outside Shanghai 1998 Contents 10 1 Feeling ill 10 2 More on indefinites 10 3 Verb reduplication 10 4 An interview with your teacher 10 5 Minor constructions 10 6 Xi h uy a form of word play 10 7 Religion 10 8 Verb Combos 4 10 9 Transformations with ch ng 10 10 B i by 10 11 Seeking opinions a dialogue 10 12 Smoking 10 13 Driving a narrative 10 14 Vivid SVs 10 15 Communication tools a narrative 10 16 Waiting and rushing 10 17 Telephoning 10 18 Chinese etiquette a dialogue 10 19 Highlights 10 20 Rhymes and rhythms Appendix Body Parts Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 10 1 Feeling ill In earlier lessons you encountered the verb ju de to feel Here we expand possible answers to the question N ju de z nmey ng How do you feel how are you feeling The context is casual rather than the formal answers one might hear in a doctor s office First some vocabulary d ifu doctor colloquial y sh ng k n d ifu y sh ng y y gu m n doctor more formal visit a doctor dentist have allergies allergies g nm o f sh o feel stuffed emit heat a cold catch have a fever a cold k sou cough a cough have a cough t ut ng head ache headache b it ng back hurt have a sore have a headache back 1 y u shu p o water blisters get blisters Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT xi d zi t xi flow stomach spit blood have dysentery spit blood xi ngji h ulong t ng li h n miss home throat hurt flow sweat be homesick sore throat to sweat ch y o y yu n take medicine hospital d zh n a b c d y odi n get an injection pharmacy t uy n head dizzy be dizzy Zh ng X y o Zh ngy X y Chinese West Chinese West medicine medicine a subj W j nti n y u y di nr b sh fu W y u y di nr g nm o T d le g nm o I don t feel very well today I ve got a bit of a cold She s caught a cold W y u di nr k sou T g nm o le k de h n l hai I ve got a bit of a cough He s got a cold and is coughing terribly T f sh o le 39 d T f le li ng ti n sh o le He s got a 39 degree fever She s had a fever for 2 days Y u di nr b sh fu t ut ng T u w i ji o b i t ng t ng Y u di nr b sh fu xi d zi B sh fu t xi B sh fu t uy n B sh fu gu m n le W h n xi ngji I m not feeling well my head aches My head stomach foot back hurts I don t feel very well the runs Not too good I m spitting blood I m not well I m dizzy I m not well allergies I m homesick W men z u le h n yu n le ji o sh ng y u shu p o We ve walked a long way I ve got blisters on my feet Y o y ge b ngd ma Do you want a bandaid B b ngd h i d It s bigger than a bandaid N f ng y zh ng b ngd i ba So you d better put a bandage on it Ch y o le ma Have you taken medicine for it H i m i B xi ng ch P k Not yet I don t want to I m afraid it ll be bitter i y h n t ng N ng bu n ng g i w ji shao y ge y y Ow my tooth hurts Can you recommend a dentist for me K y w sh shu shi y y Sure my uncle s a dentist 2 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Notes a Southerners tend to say t ng instead of t ng t u w i ji o b i t ng b Related to t with falling tone is t with low tone whose core meaning is spit with an extended meaning of enunciate as in spit out words Q ng w su d t t n please do not randomly spit is a common public health notice T on the other hand suggests unintentional evacuation from the mouth typically vomiting but also as in this case spitting blood c Chinese medicines come in many tastes but even if the taste isn t nice it s not usual to try to disguise it by adding sweet ingredients K uqi ng zh nsu Oral clinic Kunming 10 1 1 A note on traditional Chinese medicine Zh ngy Sh ngc sh y zu food desire mouth appetite k bitter r m ng n i ear sound internal ringing ears q hu y o xi go fire medicine to discharge reduce heat medicine x y o need to sh sh to try Here is a sample interchange that uses terminology from traditional Chinese medicine Zh ngy 3 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Zh i li ng ti n m i sh y zu l k For the past couple of days I ve lost my r m ng appetite and my ears are ringing N k n ng shi n i r x y o ch di nr q hu y o xi xi hu You might have an internal heat you should eat some reduce internal heat medicine and discharge some heat H o n shu de y u d ol w sh shi k n Okay what you say makes sense I ll try it Exercise 1 Paraphrase in Chinese When I got up this morning I didn t feel very well At first I thought it was because I had drunk too much the previous night So I had a cup of coffee and then lay down t ng on the sofa for a couple of hours At noon I ate a bit but I didn t have an appetite my stomach was upset and I had diarrhea By the afternoon I realized I had a cold my head ached and I didn t have any energy I took a cab to the hospital but it was more than an hour before I could see a doctor She gave …