This page contains the three lessons of Unit 2.
Lesson 2.1
Health is important for everyone of course, but for Chinese people, it is particularly important to ask about the health of a friend’s or a colleague’s parents.
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Asking if someone is busy at work and if he is healthy
- work; busy at work?
- body; how is your parents’ health?
- ‘too’, ‘not too’, ‘all not too’
工gōng 作zuò work
身shēn 体tǐ body
Lesson 2.2
In this lesson, you will learn the Chinese names of various languages.
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Talking about work being busy or much; Chinese being difficult or not
- much/ little; quite a lot/ quite a few/ not much/ not many
- languages: Chinese/ Spanish/ English/ German/ French…..
- difficult/ not too difficult
多duō much, many 很hěn 多duō
少shăo little, a few很hěn 少shăo
不bù 少shăo (not a little) quite a lot
难nán difficult 很hěn 难nán
不bù 难nán 不bú 太tài 难nán
not difficult not too difficult
汉hàn 语yŭ/中zhōng 文wén Chinese
英yīng 语yŭ English
法fă 语yŭ French
德dé 语yŭ German
西xī 班bān 牙yá 语yŭ Spanish
Lesson 2.3
In lesson 2.3 you learn how to give your opinions.
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Giving opinions on what is easy and what is difficult
Giving a reason why you are tired
- difficult v.s. easy
- tired
- because
- giving contrary opinions
简jiăn 单dān simple, easy
累lèi tired
因yīn 为wèi because
Audio Review
The help you consolidate what you have learned in the first unit, we have put together a quick audio review recording. The audio review will help you with your listening comprehension and remind you of some Chinese sentence patterns and vocabulary.