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: 

1. Understand the meaning and typical grammar patterns of 才、就. 

2. Learn formulaic expressions.

3. Gain cultural knowledge 

4. 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:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mz92nuzHrE 我就喜欢 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Y4S_0uinc 半点饮料广告 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sJtX-hewaU 蒋雯丽广告 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewJIhZwh4c 班尼路广告 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKrTfrtY4Eg 方位篇 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6uFCS9HK0 李嘉诚一分钟