Unit 8 Part III Practice Makes Perfect

How to say the following phrases? Please speak out. If you forget, click on the phrases.

• listen and can understand, listen and cannot understand
• speak very well, do not speak well
• speak very fast, speak very slowly
• speak too fast, speak too slowly
• pronunciation is very good, pronunciation is not good
• want to go to China want to go to Japan want to go to Shanghai
• if speak slowly, then understand if speak fast, then don't understand
• how to say ...in English how to say ... in Chinese
• to feel that Chinese is very difficult to feel that Japanese is very difficult Is Russian difficult or not?
• difficult to speak difficult to write difficult to learn
• what is the meaning for...? ...is the meaning of...

Please click on the speaker icon and listen to the question. Answer the questions based on your own situation.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Now try to say something about your study of Chinese.

Please tell a Chinese friend what your name is, where you work. Tell him that you are learning Chinese now. You want to go to China to do business. Now you can speak a little Chinese. Some words you don't understand yet. If Chinese people speak too fast, you don't understand. You only know some characters (zh rnshi j ge z), but you don't write (b hu xi). You feel that spoken Chinese is not that difficult. Characters are too difficult. There are too many characters. You also feel (y jude) that spoken Chinese is not as difficult as Russian. Tell your friend what foreign languages you can speak. Also tell him that your Chinese instructor is a Chinese and he is from Shanghai. He lives in San Francisco. His wife also works in San Francisco. She is also a teacher. He has a son and he works in Pennsylvania. He teaches very well.