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    Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)
    Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)
    Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)
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    Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)

    By Cornelius C. Kubler and Yang Wang

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    "A breath of fresh air… Its dual track for spoken and written language finally gives American students a chance to develop oral proficiency without being slowed down by the character writing… An ideal textbook for any program that seeks to advance rapidly in spoken Chinese and to fully prepare the students for their encounter with China. --Dr. Jingqi Fu, Associate Professor of Chinese, St. Mary's College of Maryland"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9781462915453
    Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice: A Wealth of Activities to Enhance Your Spoken Mandarin (Downloadable Audio Included)

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      Intermediate Mandarin Chinese Speaking & Listening Practice - Cornelius C. Kubler

      1. New Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries

      Unit 11, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      IMPERATIVES CONSISTING OF VERB + STATIVE VERB + YÌDIĂN(R): kāi màn yidian drive more slowly

      -LE…LE TO INDICATE TIME CONTINUING UP THROUGH PRESENT WITH TIME EXPRESSION AFTER VERB: Tā gōngzuòle sān’ge yuè le. She’s been working for three months.

      Unit 11, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      NEGATIVE TIME SPENT WITH TIME EXPRESSION BEFORE VERB: Tā sān’ge yuè méi gōngzuòle. She hasn’t been working for three months.

      NUMBER OF TIMES WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME: Duō jiŭ yìbān? One (bus) every how often?, Sānfēn zhōng yìbān. One (bus) every three minutes.

      Unit 11, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      GĒN...SHUŌ and GĒN...JIĂNG: Qĭng nĭ gēn tā shuō. Please tell him., Qĭng nĭ gēn tā jiăng wŏmen yĭjīng dàole. Please tell her that we’ve already arrived.

      VERB-LÁI VERB-QÙ: zŏulái zŏuqù walk back and forth

      ZĔMME (VERB) YĔ NEGATIVE VERB: Tā zĕmme (zhăo) yĕ zhăobudào. No matter how hard she searched she couldn’t find it.

      Unit 11, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      CÓNG...QĬ: cóng míngtiān qĭ starting from tomorrow

      YÒU YÀO...LE: Yóujià yòu yào zhăngle. The price of gas is going to rise again.

      Unit 12, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      A HÁISHI B IN QUESTIONS: Nĭ yào qù Bĕijīng háishi Táibĕi? Do you want to go to Beijing or to Taipei?

      A HUÒSHI B IN STATEMENTS: Wŏ yào qù Bĕijīng huòshi Tiānjīn. I want to go to Beijing or Tianjin.

      AMOUNT OF MONEY PER ITEM: wŭmáo qián yìgēnr fifty cents a piece (for ice pops)

      Unit 12, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      MEASURES: yìzhŏng yuánzhūbĭ a kind of ball-point pen, zhèizhī qiānbĭ this pencil, nèibĕn shū that book, wŭfèn bàozhĭ five newspapers, nĕizhāng dìtú which map?, etc.

      Unit 12, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      CÁI: Zhè shi jīntiān cái dàode. This arrived only today (and not before then).

      ZĔMME ZHÈMME...: Fānqié zĕmme zhèmme guì a? How come tomatoes are so expensive?

      Unit 12, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      BĬ FOLLOWED BY STATIVE VERB + -DE DUŌ: Zhèizhŏng bĕnzi bĭ nèizhŏng bĕnzi piányide duō. This kind of notebook is much cheaper than that kind of notebook.

      Unit 13, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      -JÍLE: Miànbāo diàn jìnjíle. The bakery is extremely close.

      YÌDIĂN(R) YĔ BÙ...: Wŏ yìdiăn(r) yĕ bú lèi. I’m not at all tired.

      Unit 13, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      A GĒN B BĬQĬLÁI: Táiwānde chāoshì gēn Mĕiguode bíqĭlái zĕmmeyàng? How are Taiwan’s supermarkets compared to America’s?

      HUÌ...-DE: Táiwānde chāoshì huì yìnián bĭ yìnián pŭbiànde. Taiwan’s supermarkets will become more widespread each year.

      ...SHEMMEDE: kāfēi, tŭsī shemmede coffee, white bread, and so on

      WÈILE TO EXPRESS PURPOSE: Wèile jiéshĕng shíjiān, nĭ măi nĭde, wŏ măi wŏde. In order to save time, you buy your things, and I’ll buy my things.

      YĪ + MEASURE + BĬ + YĪ + MEASURE: yìnián bĭ yìnián guì more expensive year by year

      Unit 13, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      A GĒN B YÍYÀNG TO INDICATE SIMILARITY: Zhèige gēn nèige yíyàng. This one is the same as that one.

      CONCESSIVE CLAUSES WITH X SHI X...: Piàoliang shi piàoliang, dànshi yìqiān bā tài guìle. As for being pretty, they’re pretty all right, but 1,800 is too expensive.

      STATIVE VERBS FOLLOWED BY EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY: dà yíhào be bigger by one number, be one size bigger

      Unit 13, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      DĂZHÉ TO EXPRESS GIVE A DISCOUNT: dă jiŭzhé sell at ⁹/10 of the original price (=10% discount), dă duìzhé sell at half price

      JIĂRÚ...-DE HUÀ: Jiărú tā bù láide huà, nĭ dăsuan zĕmme bàn? What do you plan to do if she doesn’t come?

      TIME EXPRESSION + YĬNÈI/ZHĪNÈI: sāntiān yĭnèi within three days

      Unit 14, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      QUESTION WORDS AS INDEFINITES: Nĕige dōu xíng. Any one will do., Năr dōu yíyàng. It’s the same everywhere., Wŏ shémme dōu chī. I eat everything., Tā shéi yĕ bù xĭhuan. She likes no one.

      Unit 14, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      AFTERTHOUGHTS: Yŏu píjiŭ ma, nín zhèr? Do you have beer here?

      DUŌ AND SHĂO BEFORE VERBS TO INDICATE MORE AND LESS: Duō kàn yìdiănr shū. Read more books., Shăo fàng diănr làjiāo. Put in fewer hot peppers.

      Unit 14, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      DIFFERENT WAYS TO EXPRESS ENGLISH IF: ...-de huà, ... ; Jiărú ...-de huà, … ; Rúguŏ...-de huà, … ; Yàoshi...-de huà, …; etc.

      USE OF THE POSTVERB -CHÉNG: fēnchéng divide into, huànchéng exchange for, găichéng change into, kànchéng see as, qiēchéng slice into, shuōchéng say as, xiĕchéng write into, zuòchéng make into

      Unit 14, Part 4: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      COVERB YÓU FROM, BY: Cài shi nín zìjĭ diăn ne, háishi yóu wŏmen pèi ne? Will you order the dishes yourself, or should they be arranged by us?

      DUÌ...SHÚXI: Wŏ duì nĭmen Dōngbĕi fēngwèirde cài bú tài shúxi. I’m not very familiar with your Manchurian cuisine.

      TÓNG...LIÁNXÌ: Qĭng nín tóng wŏmen liánxì. Please contact us.

      YĬBIÀN...: Qĭng liúxià nínde xìngmíng, dìzhĭ, diànhuà, yĭbiàn wŏmen tóng nín liánxì. Please leave your name, address, and phone number, so that we can contact you.

      Unit 15, Part 1: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      -DE AS ADVERBIAL MODIFIER TO EXPRESS MANNER: jiăndānde shuō jĭjù say a few phrases simply TIME EXPRESSION + (YĬ)LÁI: zhèijĭge yuè yĭlái the last few months

      Unit 15, Part 2: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

      Grammar

      AFFIRMATIVE-NEGATIVE QUESTIONS WITH -GUO AND MÉIYOU: Nĭ chīguo kăoyā méiyou? Have you ever eaten roast duck?

      YUÈ...YUÈ...: Yuè piányi yuè hăo. The cheaper the better.

      Unit 15, Part 3: New Vocabulary and Grammar

      Vocabulary

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