Getting started with Chinese 3
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
  • Introduction
  • 1 Preparation
  • 2 Adjectives – building your vocabulary
  • 3 Useful greetings
  • 4 ‘Topic + comment’ sentences
  • 5 Using le 了 to indicate change of state
  • 6 文化 Culture: the Chinese concept of beauty
  • 7 What would you say?
  • 8 Character combination and word formation
  • 9 Build a language notebook
  • 10 This week’s quiz
  • 11 Practising and consolidating
  • 12 Practising and expanding: character head components 月 and 心
  • 13 Summary of Week 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Revision
  • 2 Changing adjectives into noun phrases
  • 3 Comparisons with bǐ 比
  • 4 Four-character idioms and expressions
  • 5 Modifying comparisons
  • 6 What would you say?
  • 7 Character combination and word formation
  • 8 This week’s quiz
  • 9 Practising and consolidating
  • 10 Practising and expanding: thinking of register
  • 11 Summary of Week 2
  • Acknowledgements

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