Unit1: Learn Conjunctive Adverbs
Learning Objectives
In this section, we will learn the grammatical forms and functions of two conjunctive particles (called adverbs in most textbooks) in Mandarin Chinese,才 and 就. You will see a narrated PPT(in several installments). The objectives of this Unit are:
Understand the meaning and typical grammar patterns of 才、就.
Learn formulaic expressions.
Gain cultural knowledge
Understand different patterns for the informal context vs. the formal context.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Below are the PowerPoint Slides used in the three-part instructions, fyi. You can download these slides by going to the "download materials" section.
Instructional PPTs for Unit 1: Learn 就 and 才
Sources of examples used in this Unit:
The majority of 就/才 examples are selected from Academia Sinica Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese and CCL-PKU (Beijing University, Department of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing, China).
You can find the videos used in this presentation at these Youtube links: