A candlelight dinner..? Red roses..?
For this video I asked three Chinese people to describe "a perfect date" in Mandarin.
Press play to find out what they said and pick up some good vocabulary for talking about dates!
Interview Dialogue Breakdown
你觉得完美约会是怎么样的?
nǐ jué de wán měi yuē huì shì zěn me yàng de？
What do you think a perfect date looks like?
Interviewee #1 :
完美的约会啊？要有烛光晚餐呀。 要有玫瑰花呀。 然后，对面的那个人一定要帅。 这是最主要的。
wán měi de yuē huì a? yào yǒu zhú guāng wǎn cān ya. yào yǒu méi guī huā ya. rán hòu, duì miàn de nèi gè rén yī dìng yào shuài. zhè shì zuì zhǔ yào de.
A perfect date? It should be a candlelight dinner. There should be roses. And the guy that sits opposite me must be good looking. That's the most important thing.
Interviewee #2 :
两个人都高兴啊。就是大家都很喜欢。
liǎng gè rén dōu gāo xìng a. jiù shì dà jiā dōu hěn xǐ huān.
Both are happy. Just enjoying being together.
Interviewee #3 :
完美的约会应该是... 男生先提前到场地。 然后等好...等到女生。 然后两个人再去看一场电影。 然后看完电影结束之后，再去吃一个晚饭。 这是一个最基本的。然后晚饭结束呢，可以去公园散散步，这样子。已经很完美了。
wán měi de yuē huì yīng gāi shì... nán shēng xiān tí qián dào chǎng dì. rán hòu děng hǎo... děng dào nǚ shēng. rán hòu liǎng gè rén zài qù kàn yī chǎng diàn yǐng. rán hòu kàn wán diàn yǐng jié shù zhī hòu, zài qù chī yī gè wǎn fàn. zhè shì yī gè zuì jī běn de. rán hòu wǎn fàn jié shù ne, kě yǐ qù gōng yuán sàn sàn bù, zhè yàng zi. yǐ jīng hěn wán měi le.
A perfect date should be... The guy should arrive to the date spot first. Then he waits for the girl to arrive. Then they go watch a movie together. Then, after watching the movie, they go for dinner. This is the basic stuff. Then, after dinner, they go for a walk in the park. Something like that. That's already perfect.
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