Conversation unit 04- My address

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• 04.1
  
  address

  []
  My son works in Berlin

    Schatten  
  He lives in 32, Schatten street

  []
  This is his telephone number: 4752708

  []
  Thank you

• 04.2
  [] [] ==   liliθ  
  This is my friend. her name is Lilith Moon

  [] []
  She is a student

  []
  She studies in London

  []   King  
  She lives there, at #47 King road

• 04.3
  []   dʒoŋson  
  May I ask, Mr.Johnson, where do you work?

  
  I work in Cambridge

  
  Where do you live?

  
  I live in Cambridge, too

  []
  Thank you

• 04.4
    dʒoŋ  
  John, where do you live?

    New York  
  I live in New York

  []   New York  
  Does your wife live in New York as well?

  []
  No, she lives in Rome

  []
  Do you have children?

  [] []
  We have two daughters, they live in Rome too

• NOTES
  [] [] []
  we: "I"+"I" / you: "thee"+"thee" / they: "it/she/he"+"it/she/he"

    Schatten  
  In this case the location complement is placed after the verb ("lives in..."). The usual form, with the verb in the end, is more correct but could create confusion when reading, due to the length of the complement.

  Also note that when there are several items, the order is from "big" to "small". This is obvious here for the addresses (first the city, then the street, then the house number, then the room number) and will appear in next units for dates (year, month, day).

  There aren't particular respect form in the pronouns

• DIFFERENCES WITH CHINESE
  Usually 'telephone' ("dian4 hua4") in chinese is used also to refer to the phone number. Not so in MG.

    X  
  Titles precede names, instead than following.

    New York  
  MediaGlyphs is more strict than Chinese with the position of indirect complements
   
   
  

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