Chinese Link Lesson 4 你学什么？nǐ xué shén me?

What do you study?

Joanne ChenIVC Chinese instructor

2014

Chinese Link Lesson 4

Sentence Patterns

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Sentence PatternsA. nà shì yì běn shénme shū?B. nà shì yì běn yīngwén shū.

A. nǐ xué shénme? B. wǒ xué yīnggúo wénxúe, • nǐ ne?

A. gōngchéng nán ma?B. Bú tài nán.

Sentence PatternsA. 那是一本什么书 ?B. 那是一本英文书 .

A. 你学什么 ? B. 我学英国文学 , 你呢 ?

A. 工程难吗 ?B. 不太难 .

Sentence Patterns

Textbook page 52

• nà shì yì běn shénme shū?

• (What book is it?)• nà shì yì běn yīngwén shū.

• (That’s an English book.)

• nǐ xué shénme? • (What do you study?)

• wǒ xué yīnggúo wénxúe,

• nǐ ne?• (I study English literature, how about you?)

•gōngchéng nán ma?

• (Is engineering difficult?)

•Bú tài nán. • (Not too difficult)

nà shì shénme?那是什么 ?(What is that?)

Zhè shì yì běn yīngwén shū.

这是一本英文书。 (This is an English book.)zhè and nà are the most commonly used demonstrative

pronouns in Chinese.

Nà shì shénme? (What is that?)

Zhè shì shénme? (What is this?)

nà shì yì běn shénme shū?nà shì yì běn yīngwén shū.

那是一本什么书 ?那是一本英文书。

Běn is a measure word. In Chinese, the number must be combined with a measure word to say how many of something there are.

Numeral + Measure word + Noun Yì + běn + yīngwén shū

(one) (Measure word) (English book)

nǐ xué shénme? 你学什么？(What do you study?)

wǒ xué yīnggúo wénxúe, nǐ ne?

我学英国文学，你呢？ (I study English literature.)

Gōngchéng nán ma?工程难吗？（ Is Engineering difficult?)Bú tài nán. 不太难 . (Not tool difficult.)

zhōngwén nán ma? (Is Chinese difficult?)

中文难吗？zhōngwén hěn nán.(Chinese is very

difficult.)中文很难。

tài nán le. (Too difficult)太难了hěn nán. (Very difficult)很难。bù nán. (Not difficult)不难Bú tài nán (Not too difficult)不太难．