Classifiers (measure words)

Vocabulary

Words 101 to 112

Review session

Crossword review session

Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.

Vocabulary

Words 113 to 123

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 124 to 133

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 134 to 144

Grammar primer

Classifiers (measure words)

个, 岁, 年, 天, 只, 本, 口 and friends. The rule that every counted noun needs one, and the 这个/那个 demonstrative + classifier pattern.

Vocabulary

Words 145 to 155

Common mistake

很 or 太?

很 is not really very, and that surprises everybody who learned it as very.

Vocabulary

Words 157 to 166

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 167 to 176

Grammar primer

Possession with 的: my, your and mine

我的书, 老师的手机. 的 after the owner makes my, your and the teacher's, and with the noun left off, 我的 is mine.

Grammar primer

我妈妈 and 我的手机: when 的 drops

Close family and the groups you belong to usually go without 的: 我妈妈, 我们学校. Things keep it: 我的手机. And with two owners, only the last 的 stays: 我朋友的妈妈.

Vocabulary

Words 177 to 187

Phrase session

Hello, thank you, sorry

The first six, and the ones whose absence gets noticed.

Vocabulary

Words 188 to 197

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 198 to 200

Grammar primer

Just a moment: 等一下 and 看看

Put 一下 (yíxià) after a verb, or say the verb twice, and the action shrinks to a quick go: 等一下, wait a moment; 你看看, have a look. The friendly way to ask.

Grammar primer

Question words: 什么, 谁, 哪儿

The question words as a set - 什么 (shénme), 谁 (shéi), 哪儿 (nǎr) and the rest sit exactly where the answer goes, with no 吗 and nothing moved to the front.

Grammar primer

几, 多少, 哪个, 谁的: how many, which and whose

几 (jǐ) for a small number with a measure word, 多少 (duōshao) for any amount, 哪 (nǎ) + measure word for which, and 谁的 (shéi de) for whose.

Conversation

Frank's blue hat

Ten lines with Frank, who is wearing a hat you know very well.

Listen first

Listen first: 谁的椅子？

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 200 words

Written inside the top 200 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.