Intermediate - The Kindle A:

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` sh` n shenme dongxi a? ai, zhe Hey, what do you have here?

B:

Kindle
Kindle! A Kindle!

A:

Kindle?
` shenme Kindle? gan y` ong de? A Kindle? What do you do with it?

B:

` dianz ` shu gang de. kan mai de a! wo Read e-books! I just bought it.

A:

` z ` q jiu dou b` b` na enme kan lai dian u guanghu a. u` jiu ` de? y de ba? hu` sh` jia Then why does it look so old? Its not shiny at all. Its not fake, is it?

B:

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 zhuanm tuo o dai ` pengyou z enme hu` ! wo en cong Meigu de. hu lai No way! I specically had my friend bring it back from America for me.

A:

` sh` ` z ` duosh qian ao f anzheng wo z enme kan enme q guai. de? mai Well, no matter how I look at it I still think its strange. How much did you pay for it?

B:

duo dianr. y qian A little more than a thousand.

A:

ren a! y y sh` duo dou k zhen y ouqian qian ey mai shugu` de shu le. You really do have a lot of money! For more than a thousand yuan you could buy a whole bookshelf of books.

B:

` b` bu hao? ao ` n an ` zhe shugu` dai na u y y` ang hao nand meiti z ou lu ` a? Thats different, OK? What, are you going to carry around a bookshelf of books wherever you go?

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A:

` laoshi n ai, shuo, y oumeiy ou houhu ? OK. Seriously though, do you regret it?

B:

cai b` ` ` ai ` ta de zu` ` ai, sh` n wo u houhu ne. xianz wo ai. bie ` dong! ` luan I dont regret it at all. Its my favorite thing right now. Hey, dont mess with it!

Key Vocabulary

dongxi ` shu dianz gang ` q lai kan jiu ` dou b` y dian u guanghu a

thing e-book just recently to appear, to seem old, used not at all shiny

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jia zhuanm en tuo ` f anzheng ` q guai shugu` ao ` nand ` zhe dai laoshi shuo ` houhu cai ` zu` ai ` luan ` dong

fake specically to entrust anyway strange bookcase can it be that to bring to be frank to regret only favorite carelessly to move

Supplementary Vocabulary

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un Y` amax ` J ndu Changch eng ` shengr` dan gao ou ` jieg ` shuji a ` f anwen m ngxian

Amazon.com Kindle the Great Wall birthday cake

structure bookcase rhetorical question clear, obvious

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