This is a short beginner reading lesson in Taiwanese Mandarin. A Monday morning. Alarm goes off. You hit snooze. You find yesterday’s milk tea in the fridge and decide that’s good enough.
You’ll pick up words like 鬧鐘 (alarm clock), 奶茶 (milk tea), and 出門 (heading out) — in a real sentence, not a vocabulary list.
What you’ll learn:
how to talk about your morning in Taiwanese Mandarin. The way people actually say it here.
文章 the text
現在是早上七點。手機的鬧鐘正在叫。我不想要馬上起床。我想要再多睡一下，所以我按了手機按鍵，讓它不要繼續叫。基本上，它會在十分鐘過後再響一次。
十分鐘後，它真的叫了。我打開眼睛，起床、下床。我拉開窗簾，看看窗外。今天的天氣很好，陽光很美。我刷牙、洗臉。然後，我走到廚房，我想要喝點水和奶茶。
冰箱裡有昨天買的奶茶。我打開來喝了一口。還不錯。
我坐下來，看了一下手機。今天是星期一。有幾個訊息，但是都不急，可以等一下再回。
我想：「今天要做的事情很多。」但是現在先不想這個。
八點，我出門了。外面的空氣很新鮮，比房間裡好多了。我深呼吸了一下。
今天應該是不錯的一天。
單字 the Words
| 中文 | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 鬧鐘 | nào zhōng | alarm clock |
| 馬上 | mǎ shàng | right away, immediately |
| 再多睡一下 | zài duō shuì yī xià | sleep a little more |
| 按 | àn | to press |
| 拉開窗簾 | lā kāi chuāng lián | to open the curtains |
| 陽光 | yáng guāng | sunlight |
| 奶茶 | nǎi chá | milk tea |
| 訊息 | xùn xī | message |
| 新鮮 | xīn xiān | fresh |
| 深呼吸 | shēn hū xī | to take a deep breath |
翻譯 the translation
It’s 7am. My phone alarm is going off. I don’t want to get up yet. I want to sleep a little longer, so I press the button to make it stop. It’ll ring again in ten minutes — that’s just how it works.
Ten minutes later, it rings again. I open my eyes, get up, climb out of bed. I pull open the curtains and look outside. The weather is nice today. The sunlight is beautiful. I brush my teeth, wash my face. Then I walk to the kitchen. I want some water and milk tea.
There’s milk tea in the fridge from yesterday. I open it and take a sip. Not bad.
I sit down and check my phone. Today is Monday. A few messages, but nothing urgent. They can wait.
I think: “I have a lot to do today.” But I’m not going to think about that right now.
At 8, I head out. The air outside is fresh — so much better than inside. I take a deep breath.
Today should be a good day.
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