Chinese Lesson 3 | part 4 熟人 | #learn #Chinese #mandarin #中文 #學習 #漢語 #教學 #乾淨校園 #ganjingcampus #MyClasses #acquaintance

The fourth part of lesson 3 is on acquaintances, people you know but who are not related to you. 熟人 acquaintances 熟人 The first term we have here is classmate 同学 First character 同 means similar or same, while second character 学 means study 同学 Second term we have is teacher 老师 teacher 老师 And the word 学长 refers to people who are in the same school as oneself, is a male acquaintance And is at a higher grade level. In this case, 长 means elder So you know that he is someone who is at a higher grade level than yourself 学长 Similarly, to your female acquaintances who are in the same school and at a higher grade level than yourself, we call them 学姐 学姐 Just as in siblings, we have 兄弟姐妹 Here, 学弟 refers to people who are in the same school with you, is a male acquaintance, and at a lower grade level 学弟 Same school, female acquaintance, lower grade level, refers to 学妹 学妹 And here we have a term that is not related to school 邻居 neighbor 邻居 We saw that 先生 meant husband in a previous video But we also mentioned that 先生 could mean sir or mister if it's used very generally So for example, if 李 is the last name, which it is, 李先生 would refer to Mr. Li 先生 A term corresponding to 先生 would be 女士 lady 女士 So since 张 is also the last name, 张女士 would mean Ms. Zhang 女士 叔叔 Another term we've seen in a different context When learning family members, it refers to the younger brother of one's father 叔叔, but generally it can refer to any male acquaintance who are in one's father's generation 叔叔 阿姨 is a corresponding term to 叔叔 when we're calling non-related people who are just a female acquaintance in one's mother's generation 阿姨 Another term one can often see in social life would be 男朋友 Which means boyfriend, but the first character itself, 男, means male, while 朋友 again means friends So 男朋友 would be boyfriend Similar to that, girlfriend means 女朋友 First character 女 means female, so 女朋友 means girlfriend Nowadays, many people are online a lot, so we call online friends 网友 First character 网 means internet, and the second character 友 is actually an abbreviation of 朋友 which still means friends, so online friend is 网友 And the following three terms are related to work, so 客户 means client 客户 上司 means supervisor or boss 上司 As you might know, 上 means up or above, so in this term, 上 infers the meaning of superiority Which is also why we call supervisors 上司 And last term we have today, colleague 同事 同事 Again, 同 means similar or same, while the 事 here actually means work, so 同事 is colleague