READING COMPREHENSION: Text 1 - level 1.

Our first year learning Chinese has ended and now it is time we began reading texts.

This is the first test in a series of online activities to help you practise during the summer. This time it is a text and some questions.

This text is probably a bit more difficult than we are expected to deal with after one year learning Chinese, but anyway, I think you can manage with a little help with vocabulary.

By the way, there will be one every Thursday.

Relax: Books - Zhongwen.

Surfing the net I have found this links with easy books to be read by begginers. They are still a bit difficult for me but I will keep them for later.

Relax: Chinese cooking

For those of you who like cooking, I have found the following channel from Chinese television. There are some videos in Spanish but as detailed, I don't think they will be difficult to follow.

Cocina china.

Hope you tell me how tasteful they are.

Here now, some video-recipes in Spanish too.

Recetas de comida china en español.

This is also an interesting link, but this time in English:

Discovering Chinese cuisine.

Lesson 10: Adjectives1.

Let's see now some adjectives we have learned in class:

• Adjectives 1 in pdf.
• Adjectives 1 in mp3.
• Adjectives 1 calligraphy in pdf.
• Adjectives 1 exercises in pdf.
• Adjectives 1 exercises key in pdf.

Lesson 9: nationalities and languages 2.

Now again we will go on countries, nationalities and languages. It is time for Italy, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Irland and Portugal.

I have also added a sentence to ask about nationality. The verb has no changes and neither has the rest of the sentence so if you want to ask a different person, you just have to change the subject.

My Chinese book.

This is the book we use in classes: 

“New practical Chinese reader 1”

Lesson 8: Family 1.

Let’s go with another vocabulary listing. This time it is the turn for the near family, very near family. 

After a hard investigation I have reached the conclusion that knowing all the names for chinese relatives is nearly impossible. Your brother-in-law’s brother’s cousin will probably have an especific word which will depend for sure if he is married to your elder sister or your younger sister or even if the cousin belongs to the mother’s family or the father’s one. And of course, if this is not diffiult enough, you will always have a formal and an informal way to say it.