您哪一届的 我是八零届的
“Which class were you in? I'm from the Class of '80.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“How come I’ve never seen this junior at school?”
您 哪一届 的 我是 八零届的
“Which class were you in? I'm from the Class of '80.”
“So you are a senior from the Class of '80.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Sharing an alma mater creates immediate social capital and trust in Chinese society, categorized by strict senior-junior (师兄/师妹) etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
which graduating class / cohort
Standard phrase for asking which school or university year someone belongs to.
the graduating class of 1980
Combines the two-digit year abbreviation with 届 to indicate graduating year.
Functions in an elliptical nominalization to categorize membership within a specific cohort.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So you are a senior from the Class of '80.”
“We all graduated from a top-tier university.”
“Since you're asking like that, it must be 2010.”
“I remember him arriving at the Xie household”
“When I was 10,”
“This side is eighty.”