day 2strengths and weaknesses
unit 1 · people & characterstrengths and weaknesses
Talk about strengths and weaknesses, and add a surprise with 卻 (yet) or one more thing with 還 (on top of that).
today’s words
- 黑 hēi · dark; black
- 自信 zìxìn · self-confidence
- 生 shēng · give birth to; grow
- 缺點 quēdiǎn · weakness, flaw
- 優點 yōudiǎn · strength, good point
- 仔細 zǐxì · careful, thorough
- 親切 qīnqiè · kind, warm
- 成熟 chéngshóu · mature; ripe
- 細心 xìxīn · attentive, careful
- 幽默 yōumò · humorous
- 優秀 yōuxiù · outstanding
- 本人 běnrén · oneself, in person
- 樂觀 lèguān · optimistic
- 堅強 jiānqiáng · strong (inside)
- 前 qián · before, ago
- 卻 què · but, yet
- 之間 zhījiān · between, among
- 好了 hǎole · OK, right; that’s it
sentences
- 她很年輕，卻很成熟。 · She’s young, yet very mature.
- 美玲白天上課，晚上還去打工。 · Meiling has classes by day, and on top of that she works in the evenings.
- 他本人很幽默，跟照片裡不一樣。 · In person he’s really funny: not like in his photos.
- 兩年前，我一句中文都不會說。 · Two years ago I couldn’t say a word of Chinese.
- 她姊姊上個月生了一個兒子。 · Her older sister had a baby boy last month.