# Newbie | Hurry Up!

An episode of [ChinesePod - Beginner](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1489328856), 22 May 2026, 9:17.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/109bf914/podcast/play/120237727/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-19%2F7c56d59d-1634-3740-c728-ceb649f952b7.mp3

In this Newbie lesson, Brian and Rena will help you how to tell your friend who moves in a slow pace and always turn out late to hurry up! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/4560

## Transcript

[0:23] Hello, welcome back to Chinese Pod.
[0:24] I'm Brian. Playing with Zhong Wen Boker.
[0:27] What's Serena? Hey, Brian.
[0:32] Sorry, I'm sure that you also have a friend that's often
[0:35] pretty late or goes slow and you have to tell them to hurry up.
[0:38] Rena just said hurry up in Chinese.
[0:40] How do you say it again? Exactly.
[0:41] Hurry up. Quite idiot.
[0:43] Right. Another thing, if that friends
[0:45] often late for things, that's an important word to know too.
[0:48] How do you say that in Chinese? Late.
[0:51] Good. In today's dialogue, you'll hear
[0:53] both of these two keywords, so be sure to pay attention and
[0:57] make sure you don't miss them. Let's take a look at like the
[0:59] dialogue. You're too quiet.
[1:03] Yeah. Holla, holla.
[1:09] You're so my idea. You're too, dola.
[1:21] You're too quiet. Yeah.
[1:23] Holla, holla. You saw my idea.
[1:29] Yo Trudola. It's required, yeah.
[1:41] Holla, holla. You saw my idea.
[1:48] Yo Trudola. Now that we've listened to the
[1:55] dialogue, let's take a look at it line by line.
[1:59] Nietzsche. Quietian.
[2:01] Eat faster. Nietzsche.
[2:03] Quietian. Eat faster.
[2:06] Nietzsche. Quietian.
[2:08] Howler. Howler.
[2:09] OK, OK. Howler, Howler.
[2:13] OK, OK. Howler.
[2:15] Howler needs all man idiot. Walk slower.
[2:20] Needs all man idiot. Walk slower.
[2:23] Nizzo Manidian. We're about to be late.
[2:31] We're about to be late. In the dialogue, we saw that the
[2:36] man was eating. And the woman is telling the guy
[2:39] to hurry up to be faster. Right.
[2:41] How do you say fast in Chinese? Fast quai quai.
[2:47] Then after that we add a little or a bit in order to make it the
[2:51] comparative. How do you say a little?
[2:53] A little E the end. E The End.
[2:58] But I think I usually hear people say E the.
[3:01] End. Ah, you have a good year.
[3:02] Exactly. So if the word after E is third
[3:06] tone, then E would have a tone change to 4th tone, which would
[3:10] be E the end eat the end. So in the dialogue we see the
[3:16] woman telling the man to eat faster.
[3:18] Need to quite eat then. Need to quite eat then.
[3:23] So if I want to tell someone to eat more slowly, what would I
[3:25] say? To eat slower Chu man eat then.
[3:30] Or what if I have a dinner and I have a lot of food leftover?
[3:33] What would I tell people if I want them to eat more?
[3:35] To eat more Chu duo iden. So in the dialogue we see that
[3:40] after the woman tells the man to eat faster, he says.
[3:43] The man says how look, how look. Let's take a look at how look,
[3:49] how look, how look how means OK, good already LA indicates a
[3:58] change of states from UN ready to ready.
[4:02] So in the situation here, how look means I'm ready?
[4:07] Right. Maybe the man isn't completely
[4:09] finished with his meal yet. He just has a couple of bites
[4:12] and then he'll be ready to go. But let's take a look at another
[4:14] situation where something is actually completed.
[4:17] For example, if a mom wants to ask their kid if they're done
[4:19] with their homework, what would she say?
[4:21] Yeah, the mom would ask how Lama?
[4:23] And if the kids done, what would he say?
[4:25] And the kid would answer, How did you notice?
[4:30] The man? Said Howlett twice.
[4:32] Do you know why, Brian? I think he does this in order to
[4:34] emphasize the fact that he understands they're in a hurry
[4:36] and he needs to go faster. Exactly.
[4:38] It also applies when we want to emphasize some other kinds of
[4:42] emotion. For example, if we want to be
[4:44] extra polite, we usually say. Or if you accidentally step on
[4:49] someone's foot, you can go double chi.
[4:51] Double chi. Yeah, they also do this a lot.
[4:53] When we're using single words, for example, you'll often hear.
[4:57] Yeah. You often hear Chinese say yes,
[5:01] yes, yes or OK, OK, OK. When they're speaking English
[5:04] just because they want to emphasize that they understand
[5:07] you. At this point, they've already
[5:10] left their house and they're on the road, the woman says Nitzel
[5:14] man idien. Man idien.
[5:16] We already talked about which is slower, so to walk so.
[5:24] So to walk slower. Nitzel man idien.
[5:29] Right here, the woman's wearing high heels, so she's probably
[5:32] telling the man to walk slower so that she doesn't fall.
[5:35] However, the man says that they're about to be late.
[5:38] How does he say that? He says let's take a look at,
[5:51] which means late. Right.
[5:53] We often use Yao with a verb or an adjective and Lu in order to
[5:58] mean that something is about to happen.
[6:01] Here the Yao is like the English helping verb will.
[6:05] Exactly. For example, when we want to say
[6:07] we're almost there, we can say Yao Tao Lu.
[6:11] Or when it's late at night and we're about to go to sleep, we
[6:14] can say. Yao Shui.
[6:17] Now that we've looked at all of that, let's go back and look at
[6:20] the dialogue again. Welcome back to another
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[7:02] It's a quiet idea. Holla, holla.
[7:08] You saw my idea. Yo true dollar.
[7:20] You're too quiet. Yeah.
[7:22] Holla, holla. It's all my idea.
[7:29] Yo true dolla. You're too quiet.
[7:39] Yeah. Holla, holla.
[7:45] It's my idea. Yo Trudola.
[7:52] Now we're almost done with the video, we can finally go get
[7:55] some food. We haven't said goodbye to our
[7:59] students yet. No.
[8:02] So in today's lesson, we learned to tell people how to slow down.
[8:07] And to tell people how to hurry up.
[8:09] So if you have any questions or comments about today's lesson,
[8:12] leave them in the comments section below.
[8:14] Thanks for watching Chinese pot. I'm Brian.
[8:16] I'm Reena shots again. Bye bye.
[8:20] Now. Here's a vocabulary recap.
[8:23] Quite. Fast.
[8:26] Eat the end. A bit or a little?
[8:30] How low? OK.
[8:33] So. To walk.
[8:36] Man. Slow to be late.
[8:44] As usual, Chinese Pod provides an extensive selection of
[8:47] learning materials for this lesson on its website,
[8:50] www.chinesepod.com. You can access this lesson
[8:54] directly with the lesson number. 4560.
[8:58] So just go to www.chinesepod.com slash. 4560.
[9:04] And you will find a transcript, vocabulary and much more.
[9:07] Link again www.chinesepod.com/four. 560.

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