Dialog

Baøi Möôøi Saùu - Ñoái thoaïi
Lesson 16 - Dialog

Introduction:

This lesson you will learn the use of:
"maát" in statements about the price and cost.
"cho" as preposition (to, for).
"cho" as verb (to give, to allow).

Classifiers for FRUITS:
"traùi" for Southern dialect.
"quaû" for Northern dialect.

Classifiers for objects in general:
"caùi"

Phaàn A: Caâu maâÕu - Patterns
Ñoái thoaïi A1 - Dialog A1
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Lan and Thi meet in front of the student guest house.

Lan:

Thi:

Lan:

Thi:

Lan:

Anh ñi phoá haû?
ÖØ, toâi ñònh ñi göÛi ít ñoà cho gia ñình roài ñi sang hieäu saùch.
Chò coù caàn gì khoâng?
Anh mua cho toâi moät quyeån saùch ñöôïc khoâng?
Ñöôïc chöÙ, chò muoán mua saùch gì?
Quyeån Vaên Hoùa Vieät Nam cuûa Phan Mai Hoa.

Töø vöïng (Vocabulary)
cho	to, for
roài	and then...
Vaên hoùa	society, culture
cuûa	by, of
Toâi göÛi ít ñoà cho gia ñình.	I'm sending a few things to my family.
Anh mua cho toâi moät quyeån saùch.	Buy (for) me a book.

Ñoái thoaïi A2 - Dialog A2
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* In writing numbers in Vietnamese, a period marks one thousand and a comma marks decimals.
Thi ñi vaøo tieäm saùch.

Thi:

Coâ baùn saùch:

Thi:

Coâ baùn saùch:

Cho toâi xem quyeån Vaên Hoùa Vieät Nam cuûa Phan Mai Hoa.
Vaâng. Ñaây, môØi oâng xem.
Caùm ôn coâ. (Thi xem quyeån saùch) Vaâng. Cho toâi mua quyeån naøy. Maát bao nhieâu tieàn coâ?
60.000 ñoàng. (Saùu möôi nghìn ñoàng = $US 6, in 1994)*

Töø vöïng (Vocabulary)
cho	to let, allow
baùn	to sell
môØi	please....(I invite you to...)
maát	to lose, spend
Maát bao nhieâu tieàn?	How much does it cost?

Ñoái thoïai A3 - Dialog A3
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Thi returns from downtown and meets Lan, giving her the book.

Lan:

Thi:

Lan:

Thi:

Lan:

Thi:

Chieác xe ñaïp cuûa anh ñeïp quaù. Anh mua ôÛ ñaâu theá ?
AØ, boá toâi cho toâi hoâm sinh nhaät.
Theá aø. Theá meï anh cho anh caùi gì?
Meï toâi cho toâi moät caùi ñoàng hoà.
Vaø chò anh cho anh caùi gì khoâng?
Coù, chò toâi cho toâi moät quyeån saùch haùt.

Töø vöïng (Vocabulary)
cuûa	belonging to, possession of
...theá/ vaäy?	So....?
cho	to give
(hoâm) sinh nhaät	(on my) birthday
Boá toâi cho toâi	My father gave me (a bicycle)
(moät chieác xe ñaïp)	to me.

[Dialog Translation]