WORDS COMBINED.
1.—Teacher. 2. To teach. 3. A pupil. 4. To take hold of a book. To read. 5. To look out characters. To recognize characters. 6. To copy. To write.
7.—To look out for a teacher. To engage a teacher. Be so good as to inform me.
8.—I ask you. Be so good as to tell me.
9.—Do you remember.
10.—Correct pronunciation. Intelligible diction.
11.—To see. Have you seen it or not? Have you not seen it yet? I have seen it.
12.—To ride. To run. Did you come on foot or on horseback? I came on horseback. That horse gallops fast.
13.—Have you found a teacher? I have.
14.—Teacher, please teach me to talk.
15.—Teacher, please look out a word for me in the book. What word? I want to find the word Ngieh, to see.
16.—Have you ever met with this word? I have. Tell me what word it is. I do not remember the word. Are there any other words that you do not remember? Of course there are. I remember but few compared with the number I forget.
17.—Your pronunciation is correct. So is your diction.
18.—I will ask you whether you know this word or not. I have never seen this word.
19.—I have requested a teacher to come and teach me. He will not come. What is it you requested him to teach? I asked him to teach us the spoken language. He says he objects to come on account of the large number of pupils.
20.—Tell me, is that man’s pronunciation as good as yours? My pronunciation is not very good. He knows more words than I do.
1.—Hsiang li.
2.—Tung tu.
3.—Chu tai.
4.—Tieh pai tu. Ngieh li.
5.—Chau li. Hsiang li.
6.—Chia lo. Sei li.
7.—Chau hsiang li. Hla hsiang li. ‘Hla chiao.
8.—Vai nai moung. ‘Hla moung hsieh.
9.—Nieh a nieh.
10.—Ghou ho shay. Kau si toh a.
11.—Pang yeh. Moung ngieh ku a pa. Moung a pa ngieh ku. Ngieh yeh.
12.—Chieh yeh. Moung ‘hei keh ta kai chieh ma ta. Vai chieh ma ta. Tieh ma yeh hang.
13.—Moung hao hsiang li a pa. Hao yeh.
14.—‘Hla hsiang li chiao si.
15.—‘Hla hsiang ta pai tu [tou vai] hao lai li. Hao lai li toh. Ou hao ngieh lai li.
16.—Lai li moung ngieh ku a pa. Ngieh ku yeh. Moung hsieh vai lai li tiao kai shi. Vai a nieh lai li. Niang mai nieh lai li a mai. Kai shi a mai. Ngieh hsiu a ngieh nao.
17.—Moung ghou ho. Kang si toh.
18.—Vai nai moung lai li nung moung hsiang a hsiang. Lai li nung vai a pa pang ku.
19.—Vai ‘hla hsiang li chiao vai. Ngi a hang ta ‘hla ngi chiao moung kai shi. ‘Hla ngi chiao pieh kang si. Ngi chiu chu tai nao a hang ta.
20.—Moung hsieh vai, tieh lai nai ai pieh ho mai moung pieh ghou a mai. Vai pieh ho a mai ghou. Ngi hsiang li pi vai hsiang nao.