Lesson 002: Sulan and Steve go Shopping

English

We go shopping for groceries at  many places. We can go to different supermarkets, we can go to a Chinese grocery store, or we can also go to the Sunday market at the waterfront.

We have a choice of supermarkets and the one we like to go to has Tsingtao beer from China. We normally take the car to the supermarket so we can bring lots of groceries back.

We live close to a Chinese grocery store where we can get items that we can not find in supermarkets, for example, snacks from China.

The Sunday market is fun. There are not only lots of fresh fruit and vegetables but also hot foods to taste and buy. We often meet friends at the market and go to a coffee after shopping.

Mandarin

第二课 - 购物

我们在多个地方购物。我们可以去不同的超市，去中国杂货店，我们还可以去海边的星期天早市。

这些超市中，我们喜欢去有中国青岛啤酒买的那个超市。我们通常开车去采购，一下载回来很多东西。

我们就住在中国杂货店附近。在那里我们可以买到其它超市没有的商品。比如说，中国的零食。

星期天市场很有趣。不但有新鲜的水果和蔬菜，还有现做的热食来品尝和购买。我们经常在早市上碰到朋友，采购之后，我们就一起去喝咖啡。

Lesson 001: Finding an Apartment

English

Sulan and Steve looked hard for an apartment in central Wellington. We looked in Trademe and we looked in the local newspaper and we asked friends. We looked at many apartments.

Finally we found our apartment in Southern Wellington. It has 2 bedrooms on the bottom floor, along with a big bathroom. 1 bedroom is smaller and can have 2 single beds but the main bedroom is big enough to have a queen sized bed. The top floor has a large living room and a kitchen and a nice balcony. This floor also has a dining room and a small corner office space.

It is a nice apartment because it is a warm and spacious apartment. It has windows looking both east and west so we get sun all day long. We have a little car that we park in the car park for the apartment. We can both walk to work so the car is only used when we want to go somewhere.

Mandarin

第一课 － 找公寓

素兰和史蒂夫花了很多精力在惠灵顿市中心找公寓。我们在trademe上找,在当地报纸上找，还跟朋友了解租房的情况。我们看了不少公寓。

我们终于在惠灵顿的南区找到了一个公寓。这个公寓有两层。底层有两个卧室和一个大卫生间。一个卧室比较小，只能放两张单人床。主卧室放一张大床绰绰有余。顶层有一个大起居室，厨房和阳台。这层还有一个餐厅和一个小小的办公角落。

这个公寓很不错；暖和又宽敞。它的东面和西面都有窗户，因此全天朝阳。这个公寓区有自己的停车场。我们有辆小车，它停在属于我们的车位上。我们可以走路去上班。所以，我们只是在外出的时候才用车。