Lesson 20.1
Talking about past experience
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Talking about your experience and what you did in the past.
- Use of 过, indicating experience
- Use of never do something and have never done something
了le indicates completed action
吃饭了change of situation/ time to do….
别…..了 don’t do sth. anymore
太…..了 very/ extremely …..
从cóng 来lái 没méi have never
过guò suffix, to express experience of having done….
皮pí 萨sà pizza
从cóng 来lái 不bù never
常cháng 常cháng often
老lăo 公gōng husband (slang)
老lăo 婆pó wife (slang)
次cì times
有yǒu 时shí 候hòu sometimes
Lesson 20.2
Planning to visit China
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Talking about your plan to visit China in the summer and giving advice how to travel between Beijing and Shanghai.
- Use of 打算
- Talking about plans
- Use of 比较
- The distance between two locations and the direction to get there
至zhì 少shăo at least
打dă 算suàn to plan
夏xià 天tiān summer
秋qiū 天tiān autumn
冬dōng 天tiān winter
春chūn 天tiān spring
先xiān …..再zài first …. then
从cóng …..去qù from (location) to
坐zuò / 搭dā to take (transportation)
火huǒ 车chē train
飞fēi 机jī airplane
你nǐ说shuō/ 你nǐ看kàn in your opinion
比bǐ 较jiào to compare; relatively
比bǐ 较jiào 好hăo better
看kàn 你nǐ It’s up to you
省shěng to save (time/ money)
时shí 间jiān time
A 离lí B A away from B, asking for distance
有yǒu 多duō 远yuăn how far
不bú 到dào less than
Lesson 20.3
Giving instructions on how to get to your place
Lesson summary and vocabulary list
Telling a friend how to get to your place and finally deciding to pick him up
- Using 方便to ask if it’s convenient to do …..
- How long does it take to do …?
- There is a …. next to/ across from…..
- The use of 算了
方fāng 便biàn convenient
只zhǐ 要yào only need
走zǒu 路lù to walk
过guò 来lái to come over
对duì 面miàn across from
咖kā 啡fēi 馆guăn coffee shop
旁páng 边biān beside
进jìn 来lái to enter
算suàn 了le forget it!
我wǒ 看kàn in my opinion
车chē 站zhàn (bus/ train) stop
接jiēto pick up (someone)
快kuài 到dào nearly arrive
车chē 上shàng in the car/ on the bus
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.