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# 13 Summary of Week 1

Now you have reached the end of Week 1, reflect a little on what you have learnt.

## Activity 16

In the box below, note down what you have found easy, useful or fun, and what was more difficult.

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Next week, we will learn how to form comparisons so that you can further describe people and objects. Why don’t you make a head start by researching the key character bǐ 比.

Xià xīngqī jiàn. 下星期见. See you next week.

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Transcript

In this phrase, xià 下 means ‘the next, the following’ rather than indicating the physical location ‘below’. You can understand this phrase by visualising a calendar – the following week is located underneath the current one.

You can now move on to Week 2.

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