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Lesson 19 – Intermediate – Learning Chinese Sentences一般来说 in Reading

The reading skill is an important factor to measure the learners’ ability of learning Chinese language. Therefore, much attention should be paid to practice the ability of reading Chinese language materials. In the following some exercises are provided for the students who study in Chinese language program in Chinato improve their reading ability. The exercises are presented as the form of dialogue. The questions are provided and the students are supposed to answer the questions with the given expressions.

For example, the question 我们一定要进行载人航天飞船试验吗is provided and the given expression is 就是…也…. First of all, the students need to understand the question and expression. The question is asking whether we must make the experiments about the spacecraft and the expression is frequently used which means that things should be done no matter what kind of problems appear. Therefore, the possible answer for the question can be 当然,就是遇到再大的困难也要进行飞船试验.

In the expression 就是…也…, the conditions in the former part do not influence the actions in the latter part. In the same way, it seems much easier for the foreign students who learn Chinese online free to answer the question 如果你突然得到一大笔钱,你会放弃工作吗, carrying the meaning of will you give up your job if you got a large sum of money? Therefore, you can say ,就是有十亿也要继续工作.

Another important language point often seen in reading process is 一般来说, which means generally speaking . If the foreign students who study abroad in China are asked 你们国家的人是怎么给孩子起名字的 , you can answer with the expression 一般来说. The question is about how people in your country give name to the children. You can answer 一般来说, 跟爸爸姓, meaning generally speaking, they have the same surname of their fathers’ . For example, 一般来说,朋友可以分为两种,有趣的和无聊的. 
 

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