Sunday, October 27, 2013

How to Remember Chinese Words - HSK 1 - 8/9 - It's a Long Story (extract from the book)


Part 1/9 of the extract.
Part 9/9 (next week! :)
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Vocabulary covered in this part of the story:
Pinyin          Trad.     Simp.  English
yi-- yuan\      醫院    医院    hospital
yi--sheng--    醫生    医生    doctor
yi--fu             衣服    衣服    clothes
yi--xie--         一些    一些    a few
you\/              有        有        have
zhong--guo/  中國    中国    China
zhu\               住        住        to live
Both traditional Chinese (繁體/繁体)and simplified Chinese (簡體/简体) are given above.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

How to Remember Chinese Words - HSK 1 - 7/9 - It's a Long Story (extract from the book)





Part 1/9 of the extract.
Part 8/9 (next week! :)
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Mnemonics for these vocab words:
Simpl.   Trad.    Pinyin           English
听         聽         ting--             listen
同学     同學     tong/xue/       classmate
喜欢     喜歡     xi\/huan         like
学生     學生     xue/sheng--   student
学习     學習     xue/xi            study
下雨     下雨     xia\yu\/          rain
想         想         xiang\/           think
写         寫         xie\/               write
学校     學校     xue/xiao\       school

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Monday, October 7, 2013

How to Remember Chinese Words - HSK 1 - 5/9 - It's a Long Story (extract from the book)


Part 1/9 of the extract.
Part 6/9 (next week! :)

- Original Art, Howard T. Chiam, 2013 -

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lao\/shi--        teacher
ling/               zero
mao--             cat
ming/zi          name
neng/              able, can
peng/you\/      friend
qian/               money
qu\                  go
ren/                 person, people
ren\shi             recognize, know someone
shang--dian\    shop
shu--                book
shui\jiao\         sleep
shuo--hua\       say

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