Learn to speak and write Chinese with confidence while avoiding common mistakes!
Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence. This volume makes an ideal companion to any popular Chinese-language textbook, such as Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader.
- Price: $12.95
- Pages: 128
- Carton Quantity: 60
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 21st December 2010
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
- ISBN: 9781933330891
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: BASIC WORD ORDER
1) Basic Word Order 2) Action and Location 3) Action and Time 4) Word Order for When Something Happens 5) Duration of Time 6) Placement of the word “Why?”
CHAPTER TWO: TIME EXPRESSIONS
1) When/While… 2) Days, Weeks, Months, Years
CHAPTER THREE: NOUNS
1) Plurals 2) Counting Things 3) “This” and “That” 4) Nouns for Nationalities and Languages 5) “All” of some Noun 6) Indefinites 7) Not Even One Bit of Something 8) Location Words
CHAPTER FOUR: VERBS
1) Past Tense 2) Present Tense 3) Future Tense 4) The Word “It” with Verbs 5) Helping Verbs 6) Going, Coming, Returning 7) The “Ba” Pattern with Verbs 8) The “Shi…de” Pattern with Past Tense Action Verbs 9) Passive Voice
CHAPTER FIVE: ADJECTIVES
1) General Rules for Adjectives 2) How to Translate “Bad” 3) “Not Bad” 4) “Nice” 5) “Pretty” 6) Positive Comparisons 7) Negative Comparisons
CHAPTER SIX: USES OF THE PARTICLE “LE”
1) Action Verbs in Past Tense 2) Change of Status with Adjectives 3) Imminent Action 4) “Not Any More”
CHAPTER SEVEN: USES OF THE PARTICLE “DE”
1) Uses of 的 (de) 2) Uses of 地(de) 3) Uses of 得(de)
CHAPTER EIGHT: CONJUNCTIONS (AND; OR)
1) “And”: Connecting nouns; verbs and adjectives 2) “Or”: In a statement; in a question
1) Connecting sentences with “who”/”that” 2) If…then 3) As soon as 4) Even 5) Because 6) No Matter Whether 7) Besides?
CHAPTER TEN: How to Express the verb “can” in Chinese
1) Know how to (hui) 2) Physically able (neng) 3) May/permitted (keyi) 4) Resultative Endings?
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Word Choice Issues with Certain Important Verbs
1) To “be” (“shi” vs. “zuo” vs. “dang”) 2) To “know” (“zhidao” vs. “renshi”) 3) “Like” vs. “Would like to” (“xihuan” vs. “xiang”) 4) “To think/to feel” (“xiang” vs. “juede”) 5) “To ask” 6) “To tell” 7) “To seem like” (“haoxiang” vs. “xiang”) 8) “To receive” 9) “To be afraid” 10) “To worry” 11) “To help” 12) “To take” 13) “To lose” 14) “To produce”?
CHAPTER TWELVE: Word Choice Issues with Adverbs
1) “from” 2) “first” 3) “actually” 4) “although” 5) “almost” 6) “unless” 7) “every time”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Letter Writing Issues
1) Greetings and Salutations 2) Writing to one’s Parents 3) Closing the Letter 4) More on Ending the Letter 5) Social Niceties
Learn to speak and write Chinese with confidence while avoiding common mistakes!
Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns, verbs, adjectives, word choices with verbs and adverbs, and letter writing. The simple format has one goal: quick mastery and growing confidence. This volume makes an ideal companion to any popular Chinese-language textbook, such as Integrated Chinese and New Practical Chinese Reader.
- Price: $12.95
- Pages: 128
- Carton Quantity: 60
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 21st December 2010
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
- ISBN: 9781933330891
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: BASIC WORD ORDER
1) Basic Word Order 2) Action and Location 3) Action and Time 4) Word Order for When Something Happens 5) Duration of Time 6) Placement of the word “Why?”
CHAPTER TWO: TIME EXPRESSIONS
1) When/While… 2) Days, Weeks, Months, Years
CHAPTER THREE: NOUNS
1) Plurals 2) Counting Things 3) “This” and “That” 4) Nouns for Nationalities and Languages 5) “All” of some Noun 6) Indefinites 7) Not Even One Bit of Something 8) Location Words
CHAPTER FOUR: VERBS
1) Past Tense 2) Present Tense 3) Future Tense 4) The Word “It” with Verbs 5) Helping Verbs 6) Going, Coming, Returning 7) The “Ba” Pattern with Verbs 8) The “Shi…de” Pattern with Past Tense Action Verbs 9) Passive Voice
CHAPTER FIVE: ADJECTIVES
1) General Rules for Adjectives 2) How to Translate “Bad” 3) “Not Bad” 4) “Nice” 5) “Pretty” 6) Positive Comparisons 7) Negative Comparisons
CHAPTER SIX: USES OF THE PARTICLE “LE”
1) Action Verbs in Past Tense 2) Change of Status with Adjectives 3) Imminent Action 4) “Not Any More”
CHAPTER SEVEN: USES OF THE PARTICLE “DE”
1) Uses of 的 (de) 2) Uses of 地(de) 3) Uses of 得(de)
CHAPTER EIGHT: CONJUNCTIONS (AND; OR)
1) “And”: Connecting nouns; verbs and adjectives 2) “Or”: In a statement; in a question
1) Connecting sentences with “who”/”that” 2) If…then 3) As soon as 4) Even 5) Because 6) No Matter Whether 7) Besides?
CHAPTER TEN: How to Express the verb “can” in Chinese
1) Know how to (hui) 2) Physically able (neng) 3) May/permitted (keyi) 4) Resultative Endings?
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Word Choice Issues with Certain Important Verbs
1) To “be” (“shi” vs. “zuo” vs. “dang”) 2) To “know” (“zhidao” vs. “renshi”) 3) “Like” vs. “Would like to” (“xihuan” vs. “xiang”) 4) “To think/to feel” (“xiang” vs. “juede”) 5) “To ask” 6) “To tell” 7) “To seem like” (“haoxiang” vs. “xiang”) 8) “To receive” 9) “To be afraid” 10) “To worry” 11) “To help” 12) “To take” 13) “To lose” 14) “To produce”?
CHAPTER TWELVE: Word Choice Issues with Adverbs
1) “from” 2) “first” 3) “actually” 4) “although” 5) “almost” 6) “unless” 7) “every time”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Letter Writing Issues
1) Greetings and Salutations 2) Writing to one’s Parents 3) Closing the Letter 4) More on Ending the Letter 5) Social Niceties