How Do You Feel? 你今天怎麼樣？

Hello, welcome to Speak Chinese Now. 我是李老师。 今天, today, we're going to work on how to express our feelings. Here we go. Normally, people will ask you, 你, it's you. 今天, it's today. 觉得, feel. 怎么样, it's a how. So, take a look at the sentence structure. The question is in the back of the sentence, right? In English, it would be how, it's in the front. So, the word order in Chinese is sometimes just reversed from English. Just remember that, right? Read after me. 你今天觉得怎么样? You can make this easier by dropping 觉得, dropping feel. You can say, 你今天怎么样? It works, right? Another lazy way to say, you can drop everything from here to there. You can say, 你怎么样? How's it going? How are you doing? 你怎么样? So, when you hear people ask you, how are you doing? How do you feel? Then you can say, in Chinese sentences, questions and answers are really easy. You don't need to switch do you, or did you, or does he. You don't need to move this do, okay? We don't have one. So, if you see the sentence structure look like this, you basically, people ask you, you switch it to 我, I. They use exactly the sentence structure, what you, you, people are asking you. The thing is, identify where is the question. Question is how. So, you fill in, how, the answer right here in the spot. Little work. Let's try it. 你今天觉得怎么样? So, you switch it to 我. 我今天觉得开心. That's a good sentence. 我今天觉得开心. Right? You can say, 我今天觉得兴奋。 我今天觉得兴奋。 You can say, people ask you, 你怎么样? 你说我今天挺有精神的。 我今天有精神。 Very energetic. 挺有精神的。 Or someone upsets you, you can say, 我今天伤心。 Or you can say, 我今天很伤心。 Right? If it's a little bit, you can say, 我今天有一点伤心。 Right? So, the follow-up question would be, 为什么? 为什么? Why? Then your answer would be, 因为。 因为。 If you're a mom, you can say, 因为。 My daughter's moving to college, she's moving out. 所以,我有一点伤心。 Or you can say, 我很伤心。 Does it make sense? All right, we're going to try a few more. 你今天觉得怎么样? You can say, 我今天觉得很烦。 You can say, 很烦。 If someone annoys you, you can say, 那么,follow-up question would be, 为什么? Why? You can say, 因为。 因为,someone annoyed me. 所以,我很烦。 Right? Does it work? Let's go ahead and try 生气。 你今天觉得怎么样? You can say, 我非常生气。 I'm very upset. But follow-up question would be, 为什么? 为什么? Why? Then you come up with a good answer. You say, 因为。 Give an excuse. Give a reason. Then you summarize by saying, 所以,我非常生气。 Or, you're just a little bit angry. You can say, 我有一点生气。 Or, you're very angry. You can just say, 我很生气。 Right? That works? All right, we're going to work on 紧张。 So, if you hear people ask you, 你今天怎么样? I'm going to drop 觉得. I think it's redundant here. 你今天怎么样? Then you say, 我有一点紧张。 If you're taking a trip, going somewhere, you've never been on an airplane, then you can say, 我有一点紧张。 Right? That works. Then people ask you, 你今天怎么样? Then you say, 我压力大。 You don't need 很。 You don't need 有一点。 You say, 我。 Or, you can say, 我有一点压力大。 我有点压力大。 And the follow-up question would be, 为什么? Why is that? Then you can say, 因为。 Because tomorrow I have a quiz. I have a test. 因为。 我明天。 Tomorrow I have a quiz. I have a test. 所以,我压力大。 Because I have to study. If you're hungry, when people ask you, 你怎么样? Normally you don't say, 你今天怎么样? You just say, 你怎么样? You can say, 哎呀,我饿了。 我饿了。 Or you can say, 我很饿。 我很饿。 You drop 了。 You can say, 我有一点饿。 我有一点饿。 Or you can say, 我非常饿。 我非常饿。 If you're extremely, you're exhausted, you're so hungry, and you say, 我饿极了。 Put the 饿 right here. Extremely hungry. Starving. You can say, 我饿极了。 So, alright. So, if you hear people say, 你怎么样? 你今天觉得怎么样? Or, 你今天怎么样? They're all asking the same question. How are you doing? How are you feeling? Check on how you're doing. Right? You can say, 我累了。 我累了。 Tired. You can give, or you can try a little bit of, you know, with a descriptive word. You can say, 我很累。 Drop 了。 我很累。 Very tired. You're a little bit tired, you can say, 我有一点累。 我有一点累。 Drop 了。 我有一点累。 Or, 我非常累。 I'm really tired. Right? If you're just tired, exhausted, you can say, 我累极了。 我累极了。 Drop 了。 我累极了。 That goes with the 困, the same thing. You can say, 你今天觉得怎么样? Your answer would be, 我今天觉得很困。 You can say, 很困。 Or you can just say, 我困了。 我很困。 That works better. 我有一点困。 A little bit sleepy. Or you can say, 非常困。 我非常困。 Drop 了。 If you're just tired, really sleepy, you can say, 我困极了。 我困极了。 Right? If you're not sleepy at all, what you say, 我一点也不困。 我一点也不困。 Go back here. If you're not tired at all, you say, 我一点也不累。 You can add an er, or you don't have to have an er. This one has an er. 一点, or 一点儿, right? The southerners like to say, 一点。 The northerners, where I came from, from Beijing, everything was an er. So, 一点也不累。 Oops. 一点也不困。 一点也不饿。 I'm not hungry at all, right? So the very last one, people ask you, 你今天觉得怎么样? 你今天怎么样? Or 你怎么样? If you're sick, you just say, 我生病了。 That's it. You don't need to say, 我很生病了。 我有一点儿生病了。 It doesn't work. You just say, 我生病了。 我生病了。 And you can say, 我生病了。 Then people will say, 为什么? Normally people, if you're sick, people won't ask you, 为什么? Why? So if you're sleepy and then you're 困了, then people probably say, 为什么? Then you can say, Last night I didn't sleep well. Last night is 昨天晚上。 昨天晚上, or 昨晚。 我没睡好觉。 睡觉 is to sleep. 没睡好觉。 没睡好觉 is didn't sleep very well. Right? There is a 也 also. So let's try it. If you say, let me see. People ask you, 你今天觉得怎么样? 我很开心。 And if you have a friend next to you, and you ask the other friend, you say, 你今天觉得怎么样? The other friend probably say, 我也。 我也。 You have to say 我 first before you say 也. It's not 也我. It's 我也很开心。 我也很开心。 I'm also happy. Right? If you and another person, for instance, your sister, let's say your sister, and you are both nervous. Right? Nervous because you're going to take a trip. You're going to get on the airplane, which you have never been on an airplane before. So you can say, I apologize. You can say, 我和, 我和, 我 is I, 和 is and, 我妹妹, 我和我妹妹. Right? Your sister. Little sister. 我和我妹妹。 要去 travel 了。 因为我和我妹妹要去 travel 了。 所以, 我们有一点紧张。 有一点紧张。 Does it make sense? Does it work? Yeah? Let me see. 但是, 可是, You can say, Let's see if we can make some sentences with 但是, 可是, It's a but, however. 嗯。 Certain things you say, 我很开心, 但是我很生气, That doesn't work. Right? It doesn't work. 我很开心。 You can say, 我很开心。 我很开心。 但是, 有点紧张。 有一点紧张。 That works. I'm happy, but a little bit nervous. That works. Right? Certain things work. Certain things doesn't work. You have to play with it. You hear it. Other people, when you say it, and people, if they don't understand you, and they will, they will help to correct you. But you just try it. Right? Okay. We're going to summarize this lesson. So, the question would be, 你今天觉得怎么样? That's textbook sentence. In real life, we just say, 你今天怎么样? How's going today? Or you can drop everything. You just say, 你怎么样? How are you doing? How's going? Right? 你怎么样? Right? Let's go ahead and read after me with the real life sentence. 你怎么样? Or you can say, 你今天怎么样? How's going today? 你今天怎么样? Like I said, you switch need to we answer questions. You use everything here except, you know, identify where is the question. You're filling the answer in the question spot. That's all you need to do. I just think Chinese sentences are easy. Once you understand that structure, it's easy. You don't need to flip. I remember learning English. You have to say, you know, how do you feel today? And you have to switch sometimes. Do has to come forward. It's just quite a bit of switching here. You don't need to switch. When you see 你, it's you. You just flip to 我. 我今天很开心。 我今天有一点开心。 我今天非常开心。 我今天开心极了。 Extremely happy. 你今天怎么样? If you're not happy, you just say 一点也不开心。 一点也不开心。 When you're 一点也不开心, you can say 我很伤心。 You can switch to a different vocab. You can say 今天我很伤心。 Or 今天我很烦。 Or 今天我很生气. Right? And you just have to play with it. Like I said, when you say 生病了, I'm sick. 你今天怎么样? You can say 我生病了。 You don't need to say 我很生病了。 我有一点生病了。 It doesn't work. 我非常的生病了. It won't work. You just say 我生病了。 I'm sick. Okay, I don't feel very good. Now when we go to 饿了、累了、困了, when people ask you 你今天觉得怎么样? Or 你今天怎么样? 你怎么样? You can just say 我饿了。 I'm hungry. 我饿了。 If you just want to say I'm very hungry. 我很饿。 Drop 了。 我很饿。 我有一点饿。 我非常饿。 我饿极了。 Right? If you're not, like I said, if you're not hungry at all, you just say 我一点也不饿。 Drop 了。 So 累了、困了 goes the same way. I want you to practice saying if I ask you how are you doing today? You say I'm tired. How would you say that? 你今天怎么样? Right, you say 我今天累了。 If you're very tired, what would you say? That's right, you say 我很累。 You're a little bit tired, then you say 有一点累。 我有一点累。 没问题。 If you're really tired, you say 我非常累。 Right? If you're just exhausted, you say 我累极了。 If you're not tired at all, you hiked for two hours, but you're really energetic, then you just say 我一点也不累。 I'm not tired at all. And the 困 is the same way. You say 你今天怎么样? You say 我困了。 Or 我很困。 我有一点困。 我非常困。 我困极了。 If you're not tired, you slept very well, you say 我一点也不困。 Right? And try to use Sorry, this is all covered up. 为什么? Read after me. 为什么? Why? Ask questions that people have to answer. 因为 Because Given Given the answer, I use whatever, you know, if you know 我, you use 我. 因为我 In other words, you don't know it, you use English, but start formulating that sentence. Then summarize by 所以 所以 So You know, so there's a because, there's a so. Right? 但是 It's a but. And see if you can use some of the sentences with but. All right, just practice. Let's go ahead and read this one more time. 你今天觉得怎么样? This is textbook sentence. Like I said, you just say 你今天怎么样? You can totally drop 今天. You can say 你怎么样? 你怎么样? How's it going? 你怎么样? Right? And you can just say 我很开心。 我很兴奋。 有时很, 有时一点, 有时非常. And you put whatever 我伤心。 我伤心极了。 我生气极了。 我烦极了。 烦极了 doesn't work. 我烦死了。 我紧张极了。 都可以。 Right? 我一点也不紧张。 I'm trying to practice 也. Right? 也 and 和. 我也 or 他也 and 你也. 他和我, 我和他. So that's that. 但是 I think here 可是 但是 We didn't practice much. But sometimes you can say 我生病了。 你今天怎么样? 我生病了。 可是 我还是 还是 still 有精神。 Sometimes people, although they sound kind of very sick, but they're not tired. They say 我有精神。 我生病了。 但是 You can say but I'm still energetic. That works. Right? But you can't say 我生气了。 我生气。 我很生气。 I'm mad. 但是 我很开心。 That doesn't work. Right? If you're mad, you're mad, you're not happy. So try to play with that. Right? Okay. That's all for today. 谢谢。 下次见。