Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Unit 9 X ngx ng zh hu k y li o yu n Or in more compact form X nghu li oyu n Spark s flame can set fire to plains A single spark can start a prairie fire Saying classical style Contents 9 1 More modification 9 2 Clothes 9 3 Bargaining 2 9 4 Setting the stage Verb zhe 9 5 Colors 9 6 Dialogue buying a seal 9 7 The ba construction 9 8 Verb Combos 3 9 9 Dialogue Peking Duck 9 10 Stand a little closer 9 11 Destination and goal V d o z i or g i 9 12 W ng Xu y ng the story 9 13 Patterns with du 9 14 Interjections 9 15 On apologies 9 16 Highlights 9 17 Rhymes and rhythms Exercise 1 Exercise 2 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 9 1 More modification As noted earlier de is typically a mark of modification zu ti n de b ozhi yesterday s newspaper zu ti n m i de hu ch pi o the train tickets we bought yesterday Such modifying phrases serve to pin down a particular item not any b ozhi but zu ti n de b ozhi not any l but l k i de l the li of likai Often definitions have the same form l osh g ngr n xu sh ng z i xu xi o ji osh de r n z i g ngch ng g ngzu de r n z i xu xi o d sh de r n English speakers need to pay special attention to de patterns since they often show quite a different order of modifier and modified A chef is someone who cooks in a restaurant Ch sh shi z i f ngu nr zu f n de r n 1 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT 9 1 1 Other vocabulary The following vocabulary is needed for exercise 1 below w ng sh ng net on on the internet ji o p ngyou exchange friends meet friends g ngj work tool tool sh y ngsh g nbu shoot picture expert a cadre photographer political worker x nw n b od o news report the news w f ng sleep room bedroom p izh o zh oxi ng n ngm n agric people farmers zh ngd plant ground cultivate the soil zh ngf f w government to serve VO take photos strike reflection VO to take photos reflect likeness W zh o y ge xi ng h o bu h o W p i y ge zh o h o bu h o Let me take a photo okay W men d o Ti n nm n Gu ngch ng zh oxi ng qu le We went to Ti n anmen Square to take some photographs Zu ti n w men z i P d ng zh o le j zh ng xi ng Yesterday we took some photos in Pudong Shanghai Exercise 1 a Provide items that fit the following definitions 1 Zh nggu r n ch f n de sh hou y ng de g ngj 2 W i bi r n zh oxi ng de r n 3 G i b ngr n k nb ng de r n 4 W i Zh nggu r nm n g ngzu de r n b Provide Chinese definitions based on the characteristics provided 5 n ngm n cultivate land in the countryside 6 j zh write news reports 7 f w yu n serve for the sake of guests 8 w ngy u friends made online 2 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT 9 1 2 Dialogue Who s in the photo M o D w i is with the mother of one of his friends whom he calls b m wife of father s elder brother auntie She is a photographer sh y ngsh They are looking at photographs taken in the 30s when M o Z d ng was in Y n n in northern Sh nx B m N k n zh shi M o Z d ng z i Y n n Look here s Mao Zedong at Yan an M o Who s that next to him T p ngbi nr de n i ge r n shi sh i B m Y ubi nr de shi Zh D zu bi nr de shi Zh u nl i N k n h ubi nr de n i li ng ge w igu r n shi S nu h S nu f r n M o S nu f f shi M igu j zh sh bu sh The one on the right is Zhu De the one on the left is Zhou Enlai Look those two foreigners in the back are Edgar Snow and Mrs Snow B m Du S nu shi ge gu j y ur n xi ng B i Qi n d ifu Right Edgar Snow was an international friend like Dr Norman Bethune M o And Zhu De Zh D ne The Snows were American reporters right B m Zh D shi ji ngjun c nji le Ch ng Zh ng Zhu De was a general who took part in in the Long March M o The Great Wall Ch ng Ch ng ne B m B shi Ch ng Ch ng shi Ch ng Zh ng H ngj n c ng J ngg ng Sh n z ud o Y n n M o Not the Great Wall the Long March when the Red Army marched from Jingangshan to Yan an O Ch ng Zh ng w t ngcu le Oh the Long March I heard it wrong N shu de shi 1935 ni n de Ch ng You re talking about the Long March of Zh ng ba W y w i n shu de 1935 I thought you said the Great Wall shi Ch ng Ch ng B m Ji shi le Zh D c nji le Ch ng Zh ng Exactly Zhu De took part in the Long March Notes a Y n n a city in a remote part of northern Sh nx from 1937 47 it was the capital of the communist controlled part of China b Zh D 1886 1976 close associate of Mao and at the inauguration of the PRC he was the Commander in Chief of the People s Liberation Army PLA 3 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT c Zh u nl i 1899 1976 Premier under the PRC d S nu Edgar Snow 1905 72 an American reporter author of Red Star over China based on interviews with Mao and others conducted at Yan an after the Long March His first wife Helen Foster Snow also a journalist accompanied him for part of his stay in Yan an e f f husband and wife Level toned f man appears as the first syllable of f ren Mrs ie man s person falling …