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《大学语文》 A PRIMER FOR ADVANCED BEGINNERS OF CHINESE (Vol. I) will be used as main textbook for Chinese 111.

Key Contents

  • Name - Basic sentence structures and particles - Functional expressions 
  • Family - Numbers and measure words I - Money
  • Geography - Place words - Location
  • Nature - Functions of le - Time
  • Earth - Action verb and complements of result - Past, Fables
  • People - Measure words II and resultative complement - Chinese Idioms
  • Travel - Directional Complement - Vehicles, The Great Wall 
  • Campus Life - The "ba" construction - Poetry
  • Health - Sequencing and Aspect Marker "guo" - Medicine
  • Food - The "shi......de" construction - Shopping

Audio

  • The book does not have an audio CD, therefore, the main texts, dialogues and supplementary reading texts are recorded by instructors and uploaded to the blackboard site of this course.
  • Extra audio materials can also be found on blackboard site.

Chinese Link will be used as a supplementary material for practicing Pinyin and Radicals. Students will get various handouts made from the book. 

A Chinese-English Dictionary is recommended. 

 

 

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