UNIT7 Learning Chinese 中文入门.pdf

Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K. Wheatley, MIT Unit 7 Mǎn zhāo sǔn, qiān shòu yì. Pride incurs loss, humility attracts benefit. Traditional saying (in Classical Chinese) Contents 7.1 Verb Combos (1) Exercise 1 7.2 Connecting sentences Exercise 2 7.3 Speaking languages Exercise 3 7.4 Dialogue: language abilities 7.5 Dialogue: tea and coffee Exercise 4 7.6 Along or with others; conveyances 7.7 Cái ADV ‘not until’ Exercise 5 7.8 Duration Exercise 6 7.9 More le-patterns Exercise 7 7.10 Weather Exercise 8 7.11 Dialogue: Talking about the weather. 7.12 Coverbs (2): gēn and duì 7.13 Narrative: A letter home. Exercise 9 7.14 Highlights 7.15 Rhymes and rhythms 7.1 Verb Combos (1) In Chinese, verbs often come in pairs, with the second verb completing or otherwise elaborating the meaning of the first. Since such pairs are going to be a subject of prominence, we give them the catchy label of ‘verb combos’. The second verb of the pair we will call by its traditional label of a ‘verb complement’. One particularly productive category of verb combos involves an a