Weekly review
语法
刻 for quarter hours
差 for minutes until the hour
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Structure_of_times_(advanced)
几 + measure word to mean “several”
几 + numbers: a few dozen/tens, a few hundred, etc.
好几, "quite a few"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22ji%22_to_mean_%22several%22
了 to indicate change of state: having-become-X
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Change_of_state_with_%22le%22
词汇
饭, rice/meal (also 吃饭, to eat a meal, 饭店, a restaurant, 米饭, (cooked) rice, 早饭, breakfast, 午饭, lunch, 晚饭, dinner)
房间, room, and 房子, house
放, to let out/discharge/put (also 放假, have a holiday, and 放学, holiday from school)
飞, to fly (also 飞机, airplane)
非常, extremely/very (literally "unusual, emergency")
分, minute (or point/part/etc.)
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/
玩玩
Kind of a random song today--I don't know how I arrived at it and I don't recognize either the song or the singer, but I like it: 如燕 covered by 朱兴东.
事务
I've updated the sticky post a bit to include a list of links sourced from various helpful suggestions, let me know if you have anything to add/change/etc.
周末或者周一愉快!
语法
刻 for quarter hours
差 for minutes until the hour
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Structure_of_times_(advanced)
几 + measure word to mean “several”
几 + numbers: a few dozen/tens, a few hundred, etc.
好几, "quite a few"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22ji%22_to_mean_%22several%22
了 to indicate change of state: having-become-X
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Change_of_state_with_%22le%22
词汇
饭, rice/meal (also 吃饭, to eat a meal, 饭店, a restaurant, 米饭, (cooked) rice, 早饭, breakfast, 午饭, lunch, 晚饭, dinner)
房间, room, and 房子, house
放, to let out/discharge/put (also 放假, have a holiday, and 放学, holiday from school)
飞, to fly (also 飞机, airplane)
非常, extremely/very (literally "unusual, emergency")
分, minute (or point/part/etc.)
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/
玩玩
Kind of a random song today--I don't know how I arrived at it and I don't recognize either the song or the singer, but I like it: 如燕 covered by 朱兴东.
事务
I've updated the sticky post a bit to include a list of links sourced from various helpful suggestions, let me know if you have anything to add/change/etc.
周末或者周一愉快!