Learn some essential Chinese business terms with your teacher, Lucky! Please be sure to visit http://HowToChinese.com for more information.
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Introduction to Business Mandarin Chinese Transcript
Hello Class.
Everyone hopes to live a better life. So they work very hard every day. This is especially true in such a populated country as China where businesses fiercely fight one another for market share .
As a worker in China, work life can be stressful as you have to deal with complicated"office politics" in order to move up within an organization. The younger generation in China, as a result, try to gain a competitive edge against their colleagues by learning as much as they can and one increasingly popular way to do this is through reading special books called zhíchǎng xiǎoshuō where zhíchǎng职场 means "workplace" and xiǎoshuō 小说"novel".
These "workplace novels" are a hot commodity right now among the Chinese, such as "Hidden in the Office" Qiánfú zài bàngōngshì潜伏在办公室 and "Du Lala's Promotion Diary" Dùlālā shēng zhí jì杜拉拉升职记，which have sold millions of copies, inspired a movie, television series and three sequels! Let's learn some useful business vocabulary right now,so if you are working or will work in China, you can use them in your daily life.
There are two types of offices for most companies, they are
zǒng gōngsī总公司 head Office
and fēn gōngsī 分公司 branch Office
They are usually run by a CEO, or xíngzhèngzǒngcái 行政总裁 who is sometimes the boss as well . Boss is lǎobǎn 老板 . Some companies have partners, or héhuǒrén合伙人 then working your way down, you have managers, jīnglǐ经理, supervisors zhǔguǎn主管, assistants zhùlǐ助理业务,the secretary mìshū秘书,,, accountants kuàijì会计计 and then colleagues tóngshì同事.
If you go to a business meeting be sure to bring míngpiàn 名片, can you guess what that is? Yes, business card! Many Chinese business cards have both a Chinese and English name on them . Work is gōngzuò工作 but starting work is shàngbān上班call in while getting off work is xiàbān 下班 call out.
Let's do a quick quiz!
Now I will use the words we learnt today to make 6 sentences , and you need to listen carefully. Pause the video after each one so you have time to think then I'll explain them in details to make sure you understand .
1 Zhè shì wǒmen zǒng gōngsī de kuàijì. 这是我们总公司的会计。This is the accountant at our head office.
2 Tā shì lǎobǎn de mìshū.她是老板的秘书。She is the boss's secretary.
3 Wǒ zǎoshang jiǔdiǎn shàngbān, xiàwǔ wǔdiǎn xiàbān.
我早上九点上班，下午五点下班。I work 9-5.
4 Liú xiānsheng shì wǒde zhǔguǎn.刘先生是我的主管。Mr Liu is my supervisor.
5 Wǒ de Tóngshìmen hěn bù xǐhuan wǒ.我的同事们很不喜欢我。My colleagues don't like me.
6 Wáng xiǎojiě shì lǎobǎn de héhuǒrén.王小姐是老板的合伙人。Miss Wang is the boss's partner.
Chinese fact:
Chinese workers don't have much vacation time and are expected to work lots of unpaid overtime at their jobs in order to prove their loyalty to their boss.
Now I turn the class to my students for the next few videos, tell me in the comments topics you'd like me to cover! As always, be sure to visit http://HowToChinese.com ! Xià zhōu jiàn.
