|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Lesson 14
Lesson 15
Lesson 16
Lesson 17
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
Lesson 20
Lesson 21
Lesson 22
Lesson 23
Lesson 24
Lesson 25
Lesson 26
Lesson 27
Lesson 28
Lesson 29
Lesson 30
Lesson 31
Lesson 32
Lesson 33
Lesson 34
Lesson 35
Lesson 36
Lesson 37
Lesson 38
Lesson 39
Lesson 40
Lesson 41
Lesson 42
Lesson 43
Lesson 44
Lesson 45
Lesson 46
Lesson 47
Lesson 48
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
|
In lesson twelve we learn how to ask Where are you from? There are two
different ways to do this - one construction is mainly used for Chinese
people, and the emphasis is on what sort of person are you (a Chinese person, a Beijing person, etc.) The second construction is has a formal and informal
variant, and
that emphasis is on the location that you are from - i.e. I am from America, I am from China.
12.01 Where are you from (in China)?
Notes:
你是哪里人？ Nǐ shì nǎli rén? is usually used to ask
just Chinese people where they come from within
China.
12.02 So where are you from? - Concept practice dialogue
12.03
Where are you from?
12.04 Where are you from? - Concept review dialogue
Vocabulary point:
当然 dāngrán means of course, 当然是 Dāngrán shì means "Of course I am."
非常 fēicháng is an intensifier that means extremely, it precedes
verbal predicates such as 好 hǎo.
12.05 Where do you come from?
Notes:
你从哪里来？ Nǐ cóng nǎli lái？ could be translated as "Where are
you from?" It could be considered non-standard because of the ambiguity of the question, since it can be taken to mean "Where did you just come from?"
Vocabulary point:
从 cóng is a preposition, it means from in the sense of "movement from a location",
there is another Chinese verb for talking about distance without movement,
离 lí. We will discuss this second
preposition in a later lesson.
A Transcribe the characters below into pinyin
B Transcribe the following sentences into pinyin
C Transcribe the characters into pinyin and then translate into English
D Fill in the blanks for the dialogue
E Circle the two characters that are not the same
F Write questions for the following answers
G Circle the character that matches the pinyin
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||