F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S]

Grammar

Every dynasty have –> Every dynasty has

I like A, B. –> I like A and B

多 = many, much (not ‘more’)
越多越好 = as MUCH as possible

Vocabulary

specificity = what makes something special, different, specific
Every dynasty has its specificity.

interference = something that interferes, that makes something difficult, that creates unwanted noise, distraction or obstruction
I can negotiate with the customer by myself. Don’t get involved, you’re not helping, you’re just interfering.
Don’t interfere with my business.
The TV signal isn’t very good. There is a lot of interference and unwanted noise.

Speaking exercise

college = co – ludj

colleagues = co – LEEGZ
My colleagues went to college.

Speaking exercise

They talk about many tips.

It talk about some difficulties some foreigners experience when they use Chinese in the daily life. Some is about pronunciation, accent, some is about meanings of words, just like what’s the difference between mianjin mianfen. All of these words have the same word mian.

I have no special feelings. I think what they need to do is more practice, use Chinese in the daily life as more as possible, then can quickly.

The video talks about many things.

It talks about some difficulties some foreigners experience/run into when they use Chinese in (their) daily life. Some are about pronunciation or accent, some are about meanings of words, just like the difference between mianjin and mianfen. Both of these words have the same character ‘mian’.

I have no special feeling about this. I think what they need to do is (to) practice more, use Chinese in daily life as much as possible, then they can improve quickly.

Pronunciation

image = i -mudj