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In today's lesson we're going to learn some key mathematical phrases
Despite learning how to say numbers very early on in your studies, it's quite possible to reach a good level of Chinese without knowing some very basic terms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Today we teach you these key math terms so that you can start saying equations, testing your friends mental math ability, or understand what people are saying when they are adding up at the counter when buying things.
Key Dialogue:
数学 (shùxué) - maths, mathematics
数学符号 (shùxué fúhào) - mathematical symbols
加、减、乘、除、等于 (jiā、 jiǎn、 chéng、 chú、 děngyú) - add, minus, multiply, divide, equals
等号 (děnghào) - the equals sign
加法 (jiāfǎ) - addition
一加一等于二 (yī jiā yī děngyú èr) - one plus one equals two
四十加三十六等于七十六 (sìshí jiā sānshíliù děngyú qīshí liù) - forty plus thirty six equals seventy six
减法 (jiǎnfǎ) - subtraction
十减六等于四 (shí jiǎn liù děngyú sì) - ten minus six equals four
乘法 (chéngfǎ) - multiplication
一百五乘以二等于三百 (yībǎi wǔ chéngyǐ èr děngyú sānbǎi) - One hundred and fifty multiplied by two equals three hundred.
这是一张四乘六的照片 (zhè shì yīzhāng sì chéng liù de zhàopiàn) - This is a four by six (sized) photograph
九九乘法表 (jiǔjiǔchéngfǎbiǎo) - the multiplication table/times table
三一得三 (sān yī dé sān) - three times one gets three
三七二十一 (sān qī èrshíyī) - three seven twenty one
除法 (chúfǎ) - division
六除以三等于二 (liù chúyǐ sān děngyú èr) - six divided by three equals two
米、公尺 (mǐ、 gōngchǐ) - meter, foot
六十平方米、六十平方公尺 (liùshí píngfāngmǐ、 liùshí píngfāng gōngchǐ) - six meters squared
圆周率 (yuánzhōulǜ) - the circular ratio; pi
小数点 (xiǎoshǔdiǎn) - decimal point
三点一四一五九二九 (sān diǎn yī sì yī wǔ jiǔ èr jiǔ) - 3.1415929
Editor's note:
At around 10:45, Constance says 六十平方米 and the Chinese subtitle reads the same. However, in English it says "six square meters." This should be sixty, not six.
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In today's lesson we're going to learn some key mathematical phrases
Despite learning how to say numbers very early on in your studies, it's quite possible to reach a good level of Chinese without knowing some very basic terms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Today we teach you these key math terms so that you can start saying equations, testing your friends mental math ability, or understand what people are saying when they are adding up at the counter when buying things.
Key Dialogue:
数学 (shùxué) - maths, mathematics
数学符号 (shùxué fúhào) - mathematical symbols
加、减、乘、除、等于 (jiā、 jiǎn、 chéng、 chú、 děngyú) - add, minus, multiply, divide, equals
等号 (děnghào) - the equals sign
加法 (jiāfǎ) - addition
一加一等于二 (yī jiā yī děngyú èr) - one plus one equals two
四十加三十六等于七十六 (sìshí jiā sānshíliù děngyú qīshí liù) - forty plus thirty six equals seventy six
减法 (jiǎnfǎ) - subtraction
十减六等于四 (shí jiǎn liù děngyú sì) - ten minus six equals four
乘法 (chéngfǎ) - multiplication
一百五乘以二等于三百 (yībǎi wǔ chéngyǐ èr děngyú sānbǎi) - One hundred and fifty multiplied by two equals three hundred.
这是一张四乘六的照片 (zhè shì yīzhāng sì chéng liù de zhàopiàn) - This is a four by six (sized) photograph
九九乘法表 (jiǔjiǔchéngfǎbiǎo) - the multiplication table/times table
三一得三 (sān yī dé sān) - three times one gets three
三七二十一 (sān qī èrshíyī) - three seven twenty one
除法 (chúfǎ) - division
六除以三等于二 (liù chúyǐ sān děngyú èr) - six divided by three equals two
米、公尺 (mǐ、 gōngchǐ) - meter, foot
六十平方米、六十平方公尺 (liùshí píngfāngmǐ、 liùshí píngfāng gōngchǐ) - six meters squared
圆周率 (yuánzhōulǜ) - the circular ratio; pi
小数点 (xiǎoshǔdiǎn) - decimal point
三点一四一五九二九 (sān diǎn yī sì yī wǔ jiǔ èr jiǔ) - 3.1415929
Editor's note:
At around 10:45, Constance says 六十平方米 and the Chinese subtitle reads the same. However, in English it says "six square meters." This should be sixty, not six.
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00:00Hi everyone! Welcome to ChinesePod.
00:01My name is Fiona.
00:02大家好，欢迎来到中文播客，我是 Constance.
00:05You're watching an episode of QingWen.
00:08In today's QingWen, we're gonna talk about Maths.
00:11How to describe Math equations?
00:13How to talk about
00:15addition, subtraction, multiplication, division?
00:19So plus, minus, times and divide and also equals to.
00:25Recently in an office kind of conversation, Gwilym was
00:27trying to tell Constance
00:29you know this times that.
00:31And he can say all the numbers, he can say
00:33two for example, four, and he could say eight.
00:36- But he couldn't... realize... yeah, he didn't reali...
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06:48So you know, so three one gets three, three two gets six.
06:53So you know, when we... when we were kids,
06:54when we were memorizing it, like...
06:57So even now I find myself when I go to shops,
06:59I'm so kind of like going...
07:04" 三……三……三七二十一 " 还是一个成语
07:07Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, right, right.
07:08对，刚刚讲到那个 " 三七二十一 "，
07:10它是一个成语其实，对不对？
07:12It's not just a Math formula
07:13three times seven equals twenty-one.
07:15But it's also an expression.
07:18You often hear it's like... I don't care about this anymore
07:20I'm just gonna do it. So when you act on something
07:22impulsively with no regards to the consequences,
07:26you can say 不管三七二十一，我就是要去做这件事情
07:31But it actually has like a story behind it, right?
07:33对对，以前说打仗的时候，大家知道秦国吗，秦始皇
07:38他那个时候为了要告诉旁边的国家
07:41你不用怕我，因为你有很多人
07:44他就让一个人去告诉他
07:46你看你的国家，一个家里有三个男人，
07:49那你的国家有七十……有七万个……七万个家庭，
07:54那就三七二十一，你有二十一万的士兵，
07:58你不用怕我。
07:59So this is the first emperor of China?
08:01嗯嗯，秦始皇
08:03So the first emperor of China, as a political maneuver,
08:05sent to spy into the opposing...
08:08opposing country and said
08:09hey guys look, you know in every family you have
08:12three men, right? And then you have seventy thousand...
08:15seventy thousand families in your country,
08:17so blah blah blah... equals two hundred and
08:19ten thousand people.
08:21So there's nothing to fear of us, right?
08:23Guys, just chill out.
08:24So this evolved into 三七二十一, or
08:29Don't worry about the consequences just do it.
08:31对，就……就不要管他，就这样就好，像你原来一样。
08:35所以常常在用这个成语的时候，
08:37就表示这个人其实就是要做他要做的事。
08:40或者是其实看不到后果，看不到结果。
08:43像我们出去买东西，
08:45这个人哦，看到有人排队，不管三七二十一就跟着排队
08:50Yeah, so if you see... if someone... if this person sees
08:53someone queuing, they don't care if it's good,
08:55they don't care about the consequences.
08:56They just want to do it, right?
08:57They're just gonna join this queue,
08:58and just hope for the best. great.
09:00对，没错。
09:01那我们就来看最后一个，除
09:04Divisions. Let's talk about division and does it follow
09:06the same logic as multiplication?
09:08嗯，它也要用……在说那个除法的时候，还是要说
09:13除以，比方说
09:17Alright. So it's the same... same kind of principle
09:19as division. If you're talking about the actual Math
09:21formula or dividing something by
09:24or multiplying something by,
09:27you'd both have to use 乘以 and 除以
09:30对，没错。那所以像我们听到七十二个小时，
09:35我们知道是三天，因为七十二除以二十四等于三。
09:40That's right. So I guess it's kind of similar to English
09:42in the way that we talk about... you know two plus two or
09:46three minus... you know... two or whatever,
09:49but when we're talking about multiplying something by,
09:52dividing something with or dividing something by,
09:54you would still have to use 乘以/除以
09:57加，减，乘以，除以
09:59对对，这样子说出来是最清楚的。
10:02So let's apply what we've talked about today into
10:04something perhaps is useful when you're looking for an apartment.
10:07Maybe you want to talk about the surface
10:09area or how large a space is. How would we do that?
10:12嗯，像我们刚刚讲 " 三十乘三十 " 吗，对不对？
10:15那这样就是一个平方，那这时候需要一个单位。
10:19That's right.
10:20对，像米，米，对，" 米 " 就是……
10:23So 米 is meter.
10:23对对对，米，然后另外一个说法是 " 公尺 "
10:26So 米... I would say it's more common in mainland China
10:29whereas 公尺, meter is more common in Taiwan.
10:33- But both you can talk about the... the surface area right?
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