Unit 3 Guidebook: discuss professions


KEY PHRASES

Discuss professions

我是中文老师,你呢?
I am a Chinese teacher, and you?
我是医生。
I'm a doctor.

你是英文老师,对不对?
You are an English teacher, right?

我说中文,你呢?
I speak Chinese, and you?
我说英文。
I speak English.
TIP

Chinese Grammar

Chinese grammar is easy! In English, we might say I eat, He eats, or She ate. But in Chinese, the verb always stays the same. For example, (chī) is used no matter who the subject is or whether things happened today or yesterday.


(Wǒ chī.) I eat.

(Nǐ chī.) You eat.

(Tā chī.) She eats.