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Hi everyone, the Winter Olympics are coming and this year the Olympic Games will be taking
place in Sochi, Russia. China will have 66 Olympians representing the country during
the games. This is a good opportunity for you to learn about the Olympics in the Chinese
language. In this lesson, you will learn how to say "2014 Sochi Winter Olympics" in
Chinese. I will break down the materials into 4 groups and will teach each group separately.
Let's begin our lesson.
2014 èr líng yī sì
索契 suǒ qì
冬季 dōng jì
奥运会 ào yùn huì
2014索契冬季奥运会 èr líng yī sì suǒ qì dōng jì ào yùn huì
Notice that 冬季奥运会[dōng jì ào yùn huì] is a term that is made up of two groups of words. And in the Chinese language,
sometimes we can skip words that don't really contribute to the meaning of a term but we
can still convey the same meaning without them. In this case, we can skip two words
季 [jì] and 运 [yùn], which becomes冬奥会 [dōng ào huì] instead of 冬季奥运会
[dōng jì ào yùn huì]. When you do so, you still get the meaning of Winter Olympics.
That's all for today. Thanks for watching and I will see you on our next video.
Happy learning, bye.