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今天我们很重要哦,因为要去面试,面试。 Ah, time for an interview.对。 So 面试, that's two fourth tones.对,而且你知道这是一个 job interview.
OK, so it's not like being interviewed by the newspaper or TV.嗯,不是。 面试 means a job interview or some kind of test, like a university entrance examination where you're being evaluated.
没错,因为试就是考试的试。 Yeah, OK.那这是一个面对面的考试。 So it's a face-to-face test.面试 Alright, and so what's the name of the guy who's doing the interview here? Okay, second tone.
This is not the most common last name, but you will see it if you're in China long enough, so good to know.Alright, ready to listen?
Mr. Liang, please introduce yourself.
First of all, thank you very much for giving me this interview opportunity.My major is sales.I've been doing sales since I graduated.What do you think are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses?I'm too perfectionist.
What are your hobbies?I like playing basketball the most. Alright Jenny, so let's get into this interview.
那今天我们听到很多常用的词组和搭配。 Yeah, a lot of very common phrases and collocations. 对。
So the first one is like this four-character phrase.Don't be intimidated by the four characters.What is it?Okay, so you definitely know 我. Okay, so 自我 refers to self.Okay, so fourth tone, third tone.Alright, and the next two is a word by itself.
So two fourth tones meaning to introduce.So if you do a self-introduction.Alright, so in Chinese that can be a verb or a noun, right?So here they use it as a verb and they say.Okay, so here comes the introduction and what does he say first?
So that's third tone, first tone.
So like, first of all... Yeah, it's pretty formal. All right, that's a little long, so let's break it down.
好, 非常感谢您给我这次面试机会。 Okay, so 非常感谢, so that's very thank, right?
对 Instead of saying 谢谢你, they say 非常感谢您 All right, so 您, second tone with the n on the end, because it's more polite.Okay, so thank you for doing what?
gěi wǒ zhè cì miàn shì jī huì.gěi wǒ zhè cì miàn shì jī huì.
So miàn shì jī huì would be an interview opportunity.
jī huì, opportunity, right?So opportunities are things that we have or that are given, right?
duì, zhè shì gěi nǐ jī huì.gěi jī huì.
So you give someone an opportunity, and in this case, he's being given the opportunity to do an interview.
Okay, so when you put it all together,
Okay, and then he goes a little bit into his background, right?Okay, so first he talks about his university education.So he says his major, right?Alright, first tone, fourth tone.And what's his major?
xiāoshòu, xiāoshòu, yě shì dì yī shēng hé dì sì shēng.
Okay, first tone, fourth tone, again, that's sales.Is that a major?
Shì à, marketing and sales.Okay, alright, so his major is sales, and then... bì yè hòu, yě yī zhí zuò xiāoshòu.
Okay, so bì yè, that's two fourth tones, that means to graduate, or graduation.
So bì yè hòu is after graduation. So all along he's been doing sales.
All right.Okay, so what was the first question for the interview?
Okay, so 优点, that's like a strong point, a strength.
没错,因为优就是好的意思。 Yeah, it means like excellent.
对 Okay, so you can say 有, to have a strength.And here they added 哪些.So which, like, tell us a number of them.
要 plural, more than one.不过他只说了一个。 Yeah, he only said one.
And what is this one strength? 可以承受压力。可以承受压力。 All right, so 承受, that's second tone, fourth tone, and it refers to being able to bear something, being able to handle it, to take it on.
对,那么压力呢就是 stress 或者 pressure.
So he can hold up under pressure.压力, that's first tone, fourth tone, right? 对,那么承受压力就是一个很常用的搭配。 Yeah, this is a very common collocation.Okay, so especially for interviews, you're going to hear this, especially for high pressure jobs.
Okay, then the follow up question is... So this is the opposite of 优点, right?And it's also first tone, third tone.
So that's shortcomings.Yeah, to be lacking.Yeah, it's the typical response for what your shortcomings are.
And what's his shortcoming?
To perfectionist.Okay, so perfect is... Second tone, third tone.And then we have this little suffix that we can add to add the "-ism".Third tone, fourth tone.
So if we want to say perfectionism... And then you can also use the same word to mean perfectionist.As an adjective.If I want to say I'm a perfectionist, how about that?
我是完美主义者 I'm a perfectionist.完美主义者 Perfectionist.
So you have to add one more character to this third tone, 者 zhě.
That will be in the supplementary vocab for this lesson.Don't worry about it too much right now.Okay, and then the question turns to... 他的兴趣爱好 His hobby.
Alright, four characters in a row again, but don't worry, we're gonna break this down.So the first two are... 兴趣 Interest.
Okay, two fourth tones.Okay, so that refers to interests.Now let's look at the other one. Also two fourth tones.
This is 好, the same as 你好, but here it's fourth tone, right?
Okay, 爱好, that means hobbies.So interests and hobbies, right?And because these two come together so often, you don't even have to say and.So hobbies and interests.
Okay, and his answer is... All right.
And then another question.
Okay.So why should we hire you?
So the verb here is fourth tone, first tone.Okay.So this is a word you might not use in your everyday life, but when it comes to an interview and talking about a hiring process, this is a word you can't get around.
Okay, so this word might come up when they're asking questions to the actual interviewee.And then when the people discuss the applicants, they might also say, you know, do we want to hire this person, hire that person?
Okay, so they'll use it in that case as well.
All right, so what's his answer to that very pertinent question?
他说我有丰富的工作经验和人脉,可以马上上岗。 Okay, let's break this answer down as well.
First, let's look at the two nouns, the two things he says he has.
gōngzuò jīngyàn hé rénmài.gōngzuò jīngyàn hé rénmài.
This is experience in the sense of like a history.Měi zuò.You've done something for a long time.Okay.So that's first tone, fourth tone.
So if we're talking about work experience, we're always going to see these four characters, right?
Okay, and it's not just any work experience, it's what?
丰富的 丰富的 Alright, so 丰富 meaning rich, abundant 有很多很多 Okay, first tone, fourth tone 是的 丰富的工作经验 这又是一个搭配 Ah, so this is another very common collocation 对 So you don't say like 我有很多工作经验 You don't say that 人家会觉得你中文很差 Kind of sound like a kid, right?
对 So you'll say 我有丰富的工作经验 Okay, what's the other thing he has?
人脉 Okay, second tone, fourth tone This refers to connections, right?对 Contacts with important people 是的 关系,right?对的 人脉 现在英文你们 import 关系这个词
Yeah, we often talk about it, especially in China.
对,但是在中文我们常常说人脉,人脉。 Okay, when you talk about connections, this is actually more common than saying 关系.对的。 Okay.One little question here.We say 丰富的工作经验和人脉。 对。 So does that 丰富 go with both or just the first one?
It kind of goes with the second as well.
Okay, it's kind of implied.Alright, and then the other part of why they should hire him?
Alright, so 上岗, is that like 上班? This is to get a job, a position, a post.
Okay, so it's actually start work.
Not start work for the day, but start a contract, start working.
Okay, so we have 上岗, meaning to start work.Then is the opposite also? So to not work anymore at this position.
对,就是to get laid off, it refers to.
OK, that's a good one to know.Hope you don't have to use it.
没错,那最后,拿多少钱也很重要。 Yeah, this is the key question.这个interviewer就问,你期望的薪水是多少? 期望的薪水。
Okay, so first let's look at this noun, xīn shuǐ.That's first tone, third tone.And that means the salary.In China, it's actually monthly pay, right?Not yearly pay.Okay, and what kind of pay are we talking about here?
Okay, so 期望, first time, fourth time, refers to like a desire, something you hope for.是的。 So what is your desired salary?
Okay, and with that, the interview concludes.对。 We'll talk a little bit more about some of these cultural aspects after we listen to the dialogue one more time.
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Mr. Liang, please introduce yourself.
First of all, thank you very much for giving me this interview opportunity.My major is sales.I've been doing sales since I graduated.
What do you think are your strengths?
I can handle the pressure.
What are your weaknesses?
What hobbies do you have?
I like playing basketball the most.
Why do you think we should hire you?
I have a lot of work experience and connections.I can get on the job right away.
How much salary do you expect?
Okay, so Jenny, this is an intermediate lesson about a job interview.
It's very practical, but the truth is, job interviews are really hard.
我也觉得。 So if you're just getting into intermediate, or even if you've been here for a while, you'd probably be very intimidated by the idea of doing a job interview entirely in Chinese. 压力很大。 Yeah, there's a lot of pressure there.It's kind of scary.
But we're just kind of scratching the surface here.Obviously, we can't cover everything in just one lesson.But we hope we're covering some of the main points that you need to know.
And when you get into the upper intermediate lessons, you can learn a lot more words that will be useful for you.We have tons of those kinds of lessons on ChinesePod.All right, but right now, I'd just like to talk a little bit more about 优点 and 缺点.
好,那今天我们听到的是一些非常 typical 的回答。 Yeah, so we get one 优点 and one 缺点 in today's interview.So I just want to talk a little bit about what are some other common answers.
其他的 那么优点呢 通常别人会说 我很认真 Oh, I'm very serious.对 我很努力 Oh, hardworking.然后我是一个团队工作者 Oh, a team worker.对 你看那个 者 Ah, can we hear that again? All right, team worker.
Okay, and then I'm guessing just like in English, you're not going to say things like... You'll look like an idiot, so... Or even something like... I'm very capable.
Okay, so I'm very capable.That you can say, but you wouldn't say smart and good-looking.Okay.It's kind of hard to know the Chinese because there's that whole 谦虚, that whole modesty issue.
Especially as a foreigner, you don't have to do that as much, right?Okay, so let's get to 缺点. Yeah, there's a certain skill to addressing your weaknesses and it's always you're too much of a good thing.
没错。 So we have a very typical example here, too much of a perfectionist.太完美主义了。 What else might you say? 我太认真了。 Everything we just said, just add 太.对对对,或者对自己要求太高。 So the demands I place on myself are too high.I'm too demanding of myself.
是的。 Can we hear that one more time?
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