性: abstract nouns like 重要性

Vocabulary

Words 2101 to 2110

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 2111 to 2121

Review session

Tone Shooter review session

Shoot the words you just met into their tones by colour. The quickest way to fix a tone in place.

Vocabulary

Words 2122 to 2132

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 2133 to 2142

Grammar primer

性: abstract nouns like 重要性

性 turns a two-syllable adjective into the quality itself: 重要, important, becomes 重要性, importance. The noun belongs to writing; in speech, say 这很重要.

Grammar primer

化: modernise, simplify, globalise

化 turns a state into a process: 现代化, modernise; 简化, simplify. One word can be a verb, a noun or a modifier, and in 文化 and 变化, 化 is part of the root.

Common mistake

的, 地 or 得?

Three characters, one sound, and the verb tells you which one you need.

Vocabulary

Words 2143 to 2152

Review session

Tone Shooter review session

Shoot the words you just met into their tones by colour. The quickest way to fix a tone in place.

Vocabulary

Words 2153 to 2162

Review session

Word Bubbles review session

Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.

Vocabulary

Words 2163 to 2172

Grammar primer

Four-character idioms: AABB and ABAC

Two shapes you can read on sight: a doubled adjective, 干干净净 (spotless), and a frame, 一心一意 (wholeheartedly). The doubled form takes no 很.

Grammar primer

Idioms in a sentence: frozen blocks

Nothing goes inside the four characters, and the order never changes. 的, 地 and 得 attach outside the block, just as with any adjective.

Vocabulary

Words 2173 to 2182

Phrase session

Saying what you think

Giving an opinion, and asking for one.

Vocabulary

Words 2183 to 2192

Review session

Tone Shooter review session

Shoot the words you just met into their tones by colour. The quickest way to fix a tone in place.

Vocabulary

Words 2193 to 2200

Read a story

Extra reading: Where's my phone?

手机在哪儿: a GCSE-level reader at the level you have reached.

Measure words

Measure words: around the house

Beds, tables, tickets and luggage - the household nouns and their counters, drilled in both directions with the full set you have met so far.

Themed review

The Spring Festival

The reunion dinner, red envelopes and the upside-down 福 (fú). The night that matters is New Year's Eve, 除夕 (chúxī), not the day itself.

Community

Summarise a headline

BBC News 中文 publishes in simplified characters every day. One headline and its first paragraph is today's whole task.

Listen first

Listen first: 旧手机

Hear this chapter's story before you read it: the text stays hidden until you want it, then answer the questions.

Read a story

Story milestone: top 2200 words

Written inside the top 2200 words, all of them taught by now; any new word is listed at the top of the story.

Arcade review

Arcade review

Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.