ABSTRACT
This chapter presents conversations in the Mandarin Chinese language based on common daily situations with their matching English translations. It explains few vocabulary, speech patterns and grammar notes with appropriate English examples. The grammar sections deals with Reduplication of stative verbs (SV), an adverbial marker. There are a number of tone permutations possible when SVs are reduplicated, but two common phenomena are that in the case of monosyllabic SVs the tone of the reduplicate changes, and with bisyllabic SVs the tone of the second syllable, where neutral, is restored. Reduplicated SVs very often feature as adverbials, with the addition of the adverbial marker. Adverbials describe the manner in which something done is unmarked; monosyllabic adverbs are always unmarked.
