Mandarin Video Lessons --Survival Chinese: Making a Phone Call

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Traditional Characters

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对不起，我打错了

The wrong number

A：喂，您好！请问是 S 公司吗？
Hello, may I ask if this is the S Company?

B：您好！请问您找谁？
Hello，who are you trying to reach?

A：我找王力经理。
I'm looking for Manager Wang Li.

B：您打错了。
You've dialed the wrong number.

A：请问您的电话号码是不是 6595-3578？
May I ask whether your phone number is 6595-3578?

B：这儿的电话号码是 6595-3518。
The phone number here is 6595-3518。

A：对不起。我打错了。
Sorry, I've dialed the wrong number.

B：没关系，您再打一遍吧。
No worries. You can try again.

（拨电话的声音）
(Ringing)

C：对不起，您所拨打的电话正在通话中，请稍后再拨。
Sorry, the number you’ve dialed is busy now. Please redial later.

（拨电话的声音）
(Ringing)

C：对不起，您所拨打的用户已关机。
Sorry, the number you dialed is powered off.

Grammar

Traditional Characters

Summary

Inquiries using (part one)

Inquiries using (part two)

Inquiries using (part three)

Asking for a number

Explaining telephone situations

1.	Inquiries using (part one)

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The interrogative pronoun "谁 (who)" can be used to ask questions to a subject, object or attributive.

Asking questions to a subject

2.	Inquiries using (part two)

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Asking questions to an object

3.	Inquiries using (part three)

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Asking questions to an attribute

4.	Asking for a number

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IfIf the person asking the question is relatively certain of the answer and asking for confirmation, he/she can use "...是不是...?" This is one kind of yes/no interrogative question.

5.	Explaining telephone situations

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In the sentences below, the phrase "所+verb+的" modifies the nouns "用户 (user)" and "电话 (telephone)." Remember that the noun being modified is the object of the verb.

Sentence Patterns


1. Qǐngwèn nín zhǎo shuí?
请问，您找谁？		h
May I ask who you are trying to reach?


2. Qǐngwèn nín de diànhuà hàomǎ shìbushì ?
请问您的电话号码是不是 6595-3578?		h
May I ask whether your phone number is 6595-3578?


3. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de diànhuà zhèngzài tōnghuàzhōng,
您所拨打的电话正在通话中，
qǐng shāohòu zài bō.
请稍后再拨。		h
The phone number you dialed is busy now. Please redial later.


4. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de yònghù yǐ guānjī.
您所拨打的用户已关机。		h
The number you dialed is powered off.

Expansion

Dǎ diànhuà shí kěnéng tīng dào de xìnxī

打电话时可能听到的信息

Messages you might hear when making phone calls


1. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de yònghù yǐ guānjī.
您所拨打的用户已关机。		h
The user you are calling is powered off.


2. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de diànhuà yǐ tíngjī.
您所拨打的电话已停机。		f
The telephone you are calling has been turned off.


3. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de hàomǎ shì kōnghào.
您所拨打的号码是空号。		f
The number you are calling is no longer in service.


4. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de diànhuà wú rén jiētīng.
您所拨打的电话无人接听。		f
No one is answering the phone you are calling.


5. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de diànhuà zhèngzài tōnghuà zhōng.
您所拨打的电话正在通话中。		f
The telephone you are calling is busy now.


6. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de yònghù búzài fúwùqū.
您所拨打的用户不在服务区。		f
The user you are calling is out of service.


7. Nín suǒ bōdǎ de diànhuà zànshí wúfǎ jiētōng.
您所拨打的电话暂时无法接通。		f
The call you are making cannot be connected.

Discussion

What do you say when you dialed a wrong number? Learn daily Mandarin phrases such as I dialed the wrong number, please call back later, powered off and It's fine.

Comments

mali says

Sorry, but the dialogue exercises at the end of Lesson 16 are not there!

April 21, 2016 Reply

Lisa_eChineseOnline Support in reply to mali

Hi Mali, 
click the Simplified or Traditional at the top right corner of Exercises Tab, then the audio icons will show. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will fix this bug very soon.

April 26, 2016 Reply

Instructor:	Candice
Length:	17:26
Introduction:	Ask for a number (phone number, room number, etc.). Learn to use the sentence structure with "谁."


公司公司	n.	gōngsī	company
谁誰	interrogative pron.	shéi/shuí	who/whom
经理經理	n.	jīnglǐ	Manager
错錯	adj.	cuò	wrong
打错了打錯了		dǎ cuò le	dialed the wrong number
没关系沒關系		méiguānxi	no worries
遍遍	measure word	biàn	a measure word that indicates the number of times
所所	structural particle	suǒ	an auxiliary word. The structure “所+verb+的” modifies the noun (“所+verb+的+noun
拨（打）撥（打）	v.	bō (dǎ)	to dial
通话通話		tōnghuà	to talk over the phone
正在…中正在…中		zhèngzài... zhōng	in process of
稍后稍後		shāohòu	later
用户用戶	n.	yònghù	user
已 (经) 已 (經)	adv.	yǐ (jīng)	already
关机關機		guānjī	(phone, computer, etc.) to be powered off

Wrong number!