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From :   Edward Harding

Date : 2008-05-04 / 05:06AM

请问. How do you use the before statment. ’ yi qian) i think it is.
I would like to say: ’ before I went to my hotel, I ate beijing duck ’
I’m trying everything in the past tense. 谢谢

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-05-04 / 07:38AM

Hi Edward, in Chinese we can’t put “before” in the beginning, we put it in between the sentence, for example:

wǒ qù jiǔ diàn yǐ qián, wǒ chī le BeiJing kǎo yā = Before I go to my hotel, I ate Beijing duck

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janet

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 Janet Evans gmail.com 
2008-05-04 / 01:56PM

Chinese is very interesting!

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