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Lesson 15 of 15
Off to Beijing
Meet someone new, ask their age, and travel together by plane and taxi
What you'll learn
- Say you're happy to meet someone with 认识你很高兴
- Ask someone's age with 今年多大
- Talk about a completed trip using 了 after the verb
- Name two ways to travel: 飞机 and 出租车
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Lesson phases
- Dialogue
- Grammar
- Practice exercises
- Writing practice
- Speaking practice
New words in this lesson
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Writing characters
Where these characters come from
年
A person carrying harvested grain — one harvest, one year.
大
A person standing with arms and legs stretched wide.
出
A foot stepping up out of a hollow: to go out.
车
A cart seen from above — axle and wheels.
一
A single tally stroke — the simplest possible count.
飞
A bird's wings caught in motion.
Sentence patterns
How you travel: 坐 + vehicle + verb
| Subject | 坐 + vehicle | Verb phrase |
|---|---|---|
| 我 | 坐飞机 | 去北京。 |
| 我们 | 坐出租车 | 去饭店。 |
| 他 | 坐车 | 回家。 |
The means of travel comes before the destination verb, not after it.
Tone pairs
Words whose second syllable is unstressed (neutral tone).
A third tone before another tone is a low dip, not a full fall-rise — it only rises when the syllable stands alone.