093 8 Times

Talk Chineasy welcomes a new guest in April: Guruduth Banavar. Guru Banavar is the vice president and the chief science officer at IBM. Aside from work, Guru is an active musician! Recently, he released an album “Rise 8 times,” which is a reference to a Japanese proverb “You may fall seven times, but rise eight times.” When life knocks you down, stand back up; what matters is not the bad that happened, but what one does after.

八次 (bā cì) Eight times.

再一次 (zài yí cì) means “again” or “one more time.”

8 is also a a significant number in the Chinese language. Listen to find out why Chinese loves the number 8. To learn one more unit, times, let’s review how to say numbers from 1 to 9. The episode of number 1 to 4, you can review here and 5 to 9 here.