By John DeFrancis
An entire revision of the 1st quantity within the Yale Linguistic sequence, this new edition, in pinyin romanization, and geared toward secondary institution and faculty degrees, is an creation to spoken chinese language. It contains dialogues, pronunciation drills, sentence-building routines, examples of characters, substitution drills, and miscellaneous routines within the type of video games like crossword puzzles. there's a mixed glossary-index, supplementary vocabulary for every lesson, notes, and an in depth advised learn advisor. John De Francis is study professor of chinese language at Seton corridor college. Yale Linguistics sequence, 1.
The positive factors of this introductory textual content for studying the chinese include:
-Pinyin romanization
-Vocabulary of six hundred items
-Pronunciation drills, dialogues, sentence-building workouts, trend drills, substitution tables, video games and different studying aids, memorization workouts, and a mixed glossary-index
-No characters are used
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4. Often, specific measures are used with certain nouns: zhi with the names of long slender objects, bE'm 'volume, copy' with shu 'books,' and so on. It is advisable to memorize the appropriate measure for each noun you learn. 5. ' Examples: sankuai-qian 'three dollars' [lit. 'three lumps money'] sikuai-qian 'four dollars' [lit. 'four lumps money'] sanben-shu 'three (volumes) books' siben-shu 'four (volumes) books' A measure must always intervene between a number and a noun (as, sanben-shu}; a number cannot precede a noun directly.
7. Zhe-'yigong 'duoshao-qian? 'Yigong sankuai-yi. How much is this altogether? Altogether (it's) three-ten. 8. Zhe-shi-'Meiguo-bi -bu-shi? Bu-shi. Shi-'Yingguo-bi. Is this an American pen? No. It's an English pen. 9. Zheizhi -bi 'duoshao-qian? Sikuai-qian. Zheizhi -bi hEm-hao. How much is this pen? Four dollars. This pen is very fine. Taitai-yao-mai-shenmo? Ta -yao-mai -shu. What does the lady want to buy? She wants to buy some books. Zheizhi -bi wukuai-qian. N:lmai -yi zhi -rna? Xiexie, wo-bu-mai.
Yigong sankuai-yi. How much is this altogether? Altogether (it's) three-ten. 8. Zhe-shi-'Meiguo-bi -bu-shi? Bu-shi. Shi-'Yingguo-bi. Is this an American pen? No. It's an English pen. 9. Zheizhi -bi 'duoshao-qian? Sikuai-qian. Zheizhi -bi hEm-hao. How much is this pen? Four dollars. This pen is very fine. Taitai-yao-mai-shenmo? Ta -yao-mai -shu. What does the lady want to buy? She wants to buy some books. Zheizhi -bi wukuai-qian. N:lmai -yi zhi -rna? Xiexie, wo-bu-mai. This pen is five dollars.