# Newbie | Don't You Need To Sleep?

An episode of [ChinesePod - Beginner](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1489328856), 4 May 2026, 12 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/109bf914/podcast/play/119455153/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-4%2F8d0531d9-7c45-4b06-39a5-8c00e3fa0cf3.mp3

In this lesson, Joe and Lyn will talk about those little fights you might have with people that are close to you. Let's check it out! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/4544

## Transcript

[0:23] Hi everyone, and welcome to today's Chinese Part Lesson.
[0:25] My name is Joe. In today's lesson we will talk
[0:32] about those little fights that you will sometimes have with
[0:36] your boyfriend, maybe your girlfriend, maybe even your
[0:38] parents or yeah, just a roommate.
[0:41] What is the Chinese for? For fight.
[0:44] Chow, Jia. OK, and here the first word of
[0:48] that word or the first character is already a character that
[0:51] means to fight. Chow.
[0:53] So this can mean to fight or to be loud or noisy.
[0:57] And yeah, we will definitely hear this in the dialogue.
[1:01] Tamen Chao shamuna. What they are fighting for Let's
[1:05] check out the. To.
[1:19] See. Charles.
[1:50] Sai shardiya hai. Charles.
[2:01] So they are fighting over whether or not this time for
[2:04] sleeping. But let's check out the details
[2:06] line by line first. Shenzhai chi Tia.
[2:11] What time is it now? Shenzhai chi Tia.
[2:15] What time is it now? Shenzhai Chi Tia Booyong Sri
[2:21] JAMA. Don't you need to sleep?
[2:26] Booyong, Sri JAMA. Don't you need to sleep?
[2:31] Booyong Sri JAMA Tai shardien hai Zhao.
[2:39] It's only 12. It's still early.
[2:42] Tai Shardien hai Zhao. It's only 12.
[2:47] It's still early. Thai shardin hai Zhao chaos.
[2:57] You're way too loud. Chaos.
[3:03] You're way too loud. Chaos.
[3:08] So this little fight happens at a later hour already and the
[3:11] girl is getting a little bit annoyed of her boyfriend or
[3:14] whatever that the roommate because he is still active
[3:17] apparently and she asks what time is it now.
[3:23] So here we have the word for now.
[3:26] And. Then this is followed by what
[3:29] time? So this G here is how many or
[3:38] how much, and the end is actually bits or points.
[3:42] But we use this together to ask for like how many points it is
[3:46] on the clock, like what time is it?
[3:48] And then this is followed by a little particle that can be
[3:51] according to context. It's generally used to emphasize
[3:55] things, but here, given the tone of her voice and the late time
[4:00] of the day, she's getting a little bit annoyed.
[4:03] So how was that again? And she concludes her rhetorical
[4:11] question, because I think she knows what time is it?
[4:16] She goes on and asks, Don't you have to sleep?
[4:22] So here we have the first thing, which is no need for something.
[4:30] So you have probably heard this a couple of times already in
[4:32] your Chinese classes when you say you're welcome or we have
[4:39] another, you're welcome as well. Mm hmm.
[4:44] Those two, and actually, if you remember those translate to no
[4:47] need to thank or no need to be polite.
[4:51] So this is the same no need here.
[4:53] But in our sentence and our dialogue, it is combined with a
[4:56] question particle in the end. So it's is there no need for
[5:00] something. So here this something is sleep
[5:05] Xiao Xiao. So then it becomes together.
[5:10] Is there no need to sleep? So we know already that in the
[5:17] dialogue it is 12:00. But if I have this question,
[5:21] what time is it? How would we normally like in a
[5:23] very neutral way, answer this question?
[5:26] Sure, dear. So this would just be 12.
[5:28] So it's the number for 12. And then this DN for like, yeah,
[5:33] o'clock. And here in the dialogue we have
[5:36] another small word in front of that.
[5:42] And this word is used to indicate that the speaker thinks
[5:46] that the source follows afterwards is like still early
[5:49] or very small in numbers. So this then makes it, oh, it's
[5:54] only 12:00. And he underlines this again by
[6:00] saying afterwards it's still early.
[6:03] So he says still. High, high.
[6:07] And then early we can use this tie in a lot of different
[6:13] situations where you want to express that the thing you have
[6:16] done or the thing that's coming after it is small.
[6:19] So it can be numbers times, money, pretty much anything
[6:24] that's countable. So maybe let's practice this a
[6:26] little bit. Let's imagine we have been out
[6:29] for a drink or something and I had maybe 3 beers.
[6:37] You think that's a lot Thai something?
[6:41] It's only three beers. Or you may get into the
[6:45] situation where you want to talk about prices.
[6:47] So, for example, Lin, how much was your dress?
[6:50] Liang bai kuai. Wait, Thai Liang bai kuai only
[6:55] 200? Mei Jing.
[6:57] Oh, U.S. dollar, OK, that's not that's pretty expensive then.
[7:02] Or if you want to wake up your kid because it has to go to
[7:05] school, you could be like Chi Chuang.
[7:07] Chi Chuang. Taibaatian haisao so it's.
[7:14] Only 8. It's still early.
[7:16] So this then is the same structure as we had in our
[7:18] dialogue where it was. It's only 12.
[7:22] It's still early. Taishaadian Haisao.
[7:27] So the girl thinks it's very late and the guy thinks it's
[7:30] still early. And then the girl is like, but
[7:33] you are allowed. So here we have the word that we
[7:39] told you in the very beginning of our class, which is to be
[7:42] loud or noisy. Ciao.
[7:45] Ciao. And this together is with a word
[7:48] combination that has something to do with dying.
[7:54] So this ending slow when used together with an adjective means
[7:59] something like here you are too loud, or you're that loud as
[8:05] loud that I could die. You're so you're so loud that I
[8:08] could die. And you can use this with pretty
[8:11] much every adjective that can be annoying or that can be
[8:15] unbearable. So you always have this, for
[8:17] example, if it's getting too hot outside, you would be like, it's
[8:20] so hot I could die. Or if something is like way too
[8:26] annoying or it's troubling you. Same.
[8:29] It's so troubling I could die. Fan, Sula.
[8:33] With all this in mind, let's check out our little fight again
[8:36] and go back to the dialogue. Welcome back to another
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[10:03] Charles. In today's class we talked about
[10:09] those little fights that you can have with your beloved ones.
[10:12] So of course in the dialogue we had the word for to be noisy or
[10:15] loud or to fight. Charles.
[10:18] And we talked about times, especially we talked about how
[10:22] to express that you feel something is still early or only
[10:26] a specific time. So here we had the word only.
[10:30] And this is paired with some countable information to say, Oh
[10:33] yeah, it's only that and that. And we had the word still, for
[10:38] example, still early. And I'm pretty much starving to
[10:43] death right now, so I'm having lunch.
[10:49] So we are both having lunch. And if you in the meantime, have
[10:52] any questions or remarks that you want to share with us or you
[10:55] have any samples that you want us to check, just leave them in
[10:58] the comments below and we'll get back to you.
[11:00] My name is Joe. Now here's a vocabulary recap.
[11:10] What time? Emphatic particle?
[11:16] No need. Thai.
[11:19] Only. High.
[11:22] Still. Chow.
[11:25] Noisy or to fight way too loud. Shui Jiang.
[11:33] To sleep. As usual, Chinese Pod provides
[11:39] an extensive selection of learning materials for this
[11:41] lesson on its website www.chinesepod.com.
[11:46] You can access this lesson directly with the lesson number
[11:49] 4544. So just go to www.chinesepod.com
[11:54] slash 4544 and you will find a transcript, vocabulary and much
[12:00] more the link again www.chinesepod.com slash 4544.

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