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Some of the first things I’ve been learning in Chinese 101 are weather related. For example, we have learned to form statements of the form:
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Yesterday, the weather was fine.
We’ve also been taught to form questions and dialog:
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Today it’s very nice?
Words used to say things about weather can also be used in everyday conversation:
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I’m quite cold, are you very cold?
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I’m not cold.
Interestingly, and probably sensibly, the spoken vocabulary in Chinese 101 goes much faster than the written vocabulary. We learn about 20 traditional characters a week, but probably twice as many new words. The hardest part, though, is learning some phrase and learning to apply it and its component parts properly in new contexts.
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