day 52tones and progress
unit 8 · study & ideastones and progress
Talk about tones, progress and setbacks, ask “what’s going on?” with 怎麼(一)回事, and say “if it weren’t for…” with 要不是.
today’s words
- 聲調 shēngdiào · tone (of a syllable)
- 學會 xuéhuì · learn (to do), master
- 學問 xuéwèn · learning, knowledge
- 退步 tuìbù · fall behind, get worse
- 感想 gǎnxiǎng · thoughts, impressions
- 漢語 hànyǔ · Chinese (the language)
- 禮堂 lǐtáng · auditorium, assembly hall
- 新生 xīnshēng · new student, freshman
- 心得 xīndé · what you’ve learned, takeaways
- 要不是 yàobúshì · if it weren’t for, if not
- 觀點 guāndiǎn · point of view
- 肯 kěn · be willing to
- 親自 qīnzì · in person, personally
- 如下 rúxià · as follows
- 思想 sīxiǎng · thought, thinking (ideas)
- 相對 xiāngduì · relative(ly)
- 意義 yìyì · meaning, significance
- 最佳 zuìjiā · best (formal)
- 回事 huíshì · matter, business (怎麼回事)
sentences
- 這是怎麼回事？ · What’s going on here?
- 要不是你幫我，我就無法完成。 · If it weren’t for your help, I couldn’t have finished.
- 要不是聲調錯了，你就拿第一名了。 · If you hadn’t got the tones wrong, you’d have come first.
- 少喝咖啡，多喝水。 · Drink less coffee and more water.
- 一個月沒練習，我的聽力退步了。 · A month without practice and my listening has slipped.