ABSTRACT

Speed up your Chinese is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the common errors that English-speaking learners of Chinese repeatedly make.

The book brings together these common errors to offer a valuable insight into the differences between English and Chinese and to reveal the inner workings of the latter allowing students to enhance their understanding and mastery of the Chinese language.

Key features:

  • organizes basic principles of Mandarin grammar into coherent categories.
  • learner-oriented and problem-solving approach analysis approximately 150 commonly made errors.
  • highlights and explains differences between Mandarin and English
  • mnemonic devises provide vital learning strategies
  • exercises with full answer key to reinforce learning
  • examples in traditional characters provided in the appendix.

Speed up your Chinese is the ideal reference for all learners of Chinese.

chapter |3 pages

§11. The passive construction

chapter |2 pages

Check your grammar

chapter |3 pages

§18. Yes/no questions and answers

chapter |2 pages

Check your grammar

chapter |5 pages

§24. Time phrases in a sentence

chapter |2 pages

§26. Time phrase (iv): yĭqián

chapter |3 pages

§28. V-њ le: completed action

chapter |2 pages

Check your grammar

chapter |3 pages

§36. Location phrases

chapter |3 pages

§38. Forms of action verbs

chapter |3 pages

§39. Verb-object compounds

chapter |2 pages

§42. Verb complements (i): resultative

chapter |2 pages

Check your grammar

chapter |2 pages

Check your grammar

chapter |11 pages

Answer key to exercises