Beginner Chinese 4 – Learn Chinese
April 24th, 2006
What is that? – Nà shì shénme?
You have learned so far two different way to ask questions:
1) with “ma†– Yes-or-No question
2) with “shìbúshì†structure
Questions are important and they are key to our daily conversation since not only you can obtain information from other person, you can also show your interest!
We are going to teach you another very useful way to ask questions using “shénmeâ€. This episode is important, because the three new words we are going to learn appear frequently into any conversation.
PDF file download:
The complete scripts here!!
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8 Comments Add your own
1. carrie | August 19th, 2006 at 4:08 am
Hi, Thanks for posting up the pdf files with the podcast. Could you please upload script 4 again? It is missing. Thank you for all your hardwork.
2. Ernest | September 14th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Can’t seem to download the pdf for this lesson. It appears to be missing. Can you please upload this lesson again? Thank you! ps This is a great way too learn Chinese!
3. longnguyen | September 21st, 2006 at 12:13 am
You have only 9 lessons. Please upload more, thank you.
4. Shaun | November 21st, 2006 at 2:45 pm
I expect a linguist to know full well how a language works regardless of whether he can speak it perfectly. Being able to speak the language perfectly would only make the person a better linguist.
A person that speaks a language well, but doesn’t know why defines your typical person. Most people that speak just English (or Chinese) generally do it quite well, but don’t know the intricate details of language’s grammar. Ask them why they say something a certain way and you’re likely to get the answer, “I don’t know. It just sounds right to me.”
5. PriMax | March 11th, 2008 at 5:55 am
you can download the pdf from here:
http://www.learnchinesepod.com/chinesepodpdf/learnchinesepod-beginner-04.pdf
6. Michaela | August 6th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Hey!
To answer your question:
I would rather like to be able to speak it, than to know exactly how the grammar works, but I start things, I want to do them right. If I don’t know the grammar, I have no chance to do it 100% right (ok, I probably will never do something really 100% right, but it’s nice to know that I could
)
I L O V E your Podcasts,, I’m listening to one each day, so I can better learn what you teach
It’s verry good that you repeat so often (really!), I don’t understand why not every language teacher does so.
I hope you make more podcasts!
Bye, Michaela!
7. Jerry Levinson | September 22nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Where is the script for lesson 4? Clicking on the link gives an Error 404: file not found.
8. Matthew | July 15th, 2009 at 5:54 am
I would much rather understand the grammar of a language than be able to speak it actively. As a linguist, I enjoy seeing connections in the structure of different languages.
Great podcast. It’s the first one I’ve found that actually starts with the basics of Chinese (pronouns, etc.). Most that I’ve seen jump right in by saying sentences and telling you to memorize them. I like your approach much better.
Keep up the good work!
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