day 97new year’s eve
unit 13 · free time & friendsnew year’s eve
Talk about Chinese New Year: when things happen (除夕晚上, 春節的時候, 過年) and how traditions are changing.
today’s words
- 除夕 chúxì · New Year’s Eve (lunar)
- 春節 chūnjié · Spring Festival, Chinese New Year
- 節日 jiérì · festival, holiday
- 傳統 chuántǒng · traditional; tradition
- 現代 xiàndài · modern; modern times
- 自由 zìyóu · free; freedom
- 社會 shèhuì · society
- 法律 fǎlǜ · law
- 主人 zhǔrén · host; owner
- 哇 wā · wow!
- 前年 qiánnián · the year before last
- 後年 hòunián · the year after next
sentences
- 春節是臺灣最重要的節日。 · Chinese New Year is Taiwan’s most important festival.
- 除夕晚上，一家人一起吃飯。 · On New Year’s Eve the whole family eats together.
- 過年的時候，大家都放假。 · At New Year, everyone has time off.
- 後年的春節，我還想在臺灣過年。 · The New Year after next, I’d like to spend it in Taiwan again.
- 現代的年輕人過年比較自由。 · Young people today are freer about how they spend New Year.