329 Hurry Up

Do you find that you are often telling other people to hurry up? Or are you often the one who is told to hurry up? Sylvia Cruz is the VP of Finance & Strategy for EF Education First, and also the mother of three young children, so for her, the phrase “hurry up” is one that she finds she is saying all the time. Of course, life can’t all be lived in the fast lane, so ShaoLan teaches some other practical situations when you might want to say “slow down” instead of always just “hurry up.”

The way to say “hurry up” in Chinese is 快一點/快一点. The first character 快 means “fast” and 一點/一点 means “a little” so putting these together we get the phrase “a little bit faster.”