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Chinese Language Course Structure

Course Overview

  • The textbook provides structural and grammatical knowledge of Modern Chinese.
  • Focus on written Chinese; spoken and listening skills developed separately.
  • Learning thousands of words and characters is the main difficulty of Chinese.
  • Pinyin included as a reference tool, but not always for every word to encourage looking up.
  • Suggested starting level: HSK1; completion recommended at HSK2.
  • Stress on parsing skills for understanding sentence structures.

Index

  1. Introduction - Page 3
  2. Pleco Guide - Page 4
  3. Pleco Tests - Page 5
  4. Pinyin / Pronunciation - Page 7
  5. Hanzi / Characters - Page 8
  6. Optional Knowledge on Hanzi - Page 9
  7. Radicals - Page 10
  8. SVO Structure and "Being" - Page 13
  9. To Be and Degree Adverbs - Page 14
  10. Comparison and Negation - Page 15
  11. Possession - Page 16
  12. Measure Words - Page 16
  13. Numbers - Page 18
  14. Being in a Place: 有 and 在 - Page 19
  15. Determining–Determined with 的 - Page 20
  16. Expressing Capability / Possibility: 能, 会, 可以, 应该 - Page 24
  17. Making Questions - Page 26
  18. Adverbial Modifiers 地 and 得 - Page 30
  19. Verb–Object Compound Verbs - Page 31
  20. Relationality: 和, 跟, 给, 向 - Page 34
  21. The Role of 一起 - Page 35
  22. Transitivity with 给 - Page 36
  23. The 把 Structure - Page 37
  24. Passivity & Receiving Actions: 被, 受, 遭到 - Page 38
  25. Expressing the Past: 了 and 过 - Page 39
  26. Expressing the Present - Page 46
  27. Expressing the Future: 会 and 要 - Page 50
  28. Verb Complements: Result Complements 完, 成, 开 etc. - Page 52
  29. Verb Complements: Directionals 来, 去, 到, 上, 下 etc. - Page 54
  30. A Focus on Verbs of Perception: 看, 听, 闻 with 到, 见, 清楚 etc. - Page 56
  31. A Focus on 得: Potential Complements to Negate or Emphasize the Resultative Particle - Page 57
  32. - Page 59
  33. 就 and 就是 - Page 61
  34. **也