Buying Clothes: a Chinese dialogue with translation
Anna and Xiao Wang pick out pants at the mall: the length, the price, and the color. HSK 2, 11 sentences, 119 characters. Tap a line to see the translation, tap the icon to hear it.
买衣服 mǎi yīfu
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Anna: Xiao Wang, look, how about these pants?
Xiao Wang: The color's nice, but they're a little long.
Anna: I'm tall, so a bit long is fine.
Xiao Wang: How much are they?
Anna: Three hundred yuan. A little expensive.
Xiao Wang: Those black pants over there are cheap: one fifty.
Anna: I already have two pairs of black ones; I want red ones.
Xiao Wang: How about these red ones? They're really pretty!
Anna: They look great! And they're not expensive. I'll take these.
Xiao Wang: I'd also like to buy something white for my mom.
Anna: Sure, let's go look upstairs.
HSK 2 words in this text
- 条tiáomeasure word (long things)
- 裤子kùzipants
- 颜色yánsècolor
- 不错búcuònot bad, good
- 但是dànshìbut, however
- 个子gèziheight
- 高gāotall
- 黑色hēisèblack
- 已经yǐjīngalready
- 红色hóngsèred
- 就jiùright away; exactly
- 白色báisèwhite
- 送sònggive (as a gift); see off; deliver
- 楼lóubuilding; floor
Questions on the text
What didn't Xiao Wang like about the first pants?
They were a little long.
Why doesn't Anna want the black pants?
She already has two pairs of black ones.
What does Xiao Wang want to buy?
Something white for Mom.
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