Prepared For Student: Sam (Intermediate)

Prepared By (Date): Sheila (31 July 2009)

Hi Sam,

I have drafted a study plan and proposed some general direction (
 da4 fang1
xiang4) below. I think to complete these proposed theme might take you 1-2 months,
depending on your availability to study online. As I explained to you during our first
lesson, I will send you the relevant document ‘unit’ one at a time, so that you don’t have
to digest too much too soon.

Take a look at the proposal below, we can always tweet it during our next lesson!

Study Plan:

1. Solidify the foundation (pronunciation, use the ‘right’ word with the same pinyin)
2. Focus 50% on Business terms and usages, 50% on cultural and lifestyle related
knowledge.
3. Learn 160 new vocabularies related to the topics listed below
4. Be able to discuss the topics listed below with confidence and know how to use
the appropriate terms depending on the context.

Proposed General Study Direction (
 xue2 xi2 de da4 fang1 xiang4)

1. Construction related business conversation (will require your contribution)

2. General trading business knowledge (business terms)
3. Doing business with Chinese people (cultural aspects, business etiquettes)
4. Food and wine (I know more about food, but I will do what I can with wine!)
5. News (discuss current affairs in Chinese)

Proposed approach:

1. Each study materials will focus on 2 of the study direction listed above
2. Each document will introduce around 20 new vocabularies
3. Include a short paragraph of reading material to train your ‘reading’ and ‘reading
out loud’ ability!
4. Each document will take about 1 – 2 hours lesson time to complete (depends on
how long you have each time, it could be 2-4 lessons, I guess)
5. Be very strict with your pronunciation!

Tip: Print this document for your own study and for making note during the lesson!
Reading Text


 




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hóng pútáojiǔ shì yóu pútáo dài pí fājiào ér chéng jiǔ sè fēn wèi
shēn hóng xiān hóng bǎoshí hóng děng jìn jǐ nián lái táo hóng
pútáojiǔ zài guójì shìchǎng shàng yě pǒ liúxíng táo hóng pútáojiǔ sè
zé jiè yú hóng pútáojiǔ hé bái pútáojiǔ zhījiān ,

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(we can study one type each time!)
hóng pútáojiǔ pǐnzhǒng
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biémíng kǎ mén nài tè, yuán zhòng wéi jiě bǎi nà ,yuán chǎn dì zài
fǎguó, wéi fǎguó gǔlǎo de niàng jiǔ pǐnzhǒng shìjiè gèdì jūn yǒu
zāipéi, shì chì xiá zhūPshé lóng zhū de zǐmèi pǐnzhǒng,wǒguó zuì
zǎo shì 1892 nián yóu xīōu yǐnrù shāndōng Yāntái mùqián zhǔyào
chǎnqū jūn yǒu zāipéi,gāi pǐn zǒng shì shìjiè zhùmíng dePgǔlǎo de
niàng hóng jiǔ pǐnzhǒng,
Wine related Vocabularies (from the text on page 2)  Part 1

No. Chinese pinyin English Translation

(simplified)
1
Fā jiào ferment

2 % Sè zé color

3 &'ll-*+ Jiè yú…zhī jiā In between

4 12 Bié míng Also known as

5 8@A Yuán chǎn dì Original region of

production
6 LM Zāi péi to cultivate, to grow

7 ST.9 Zǐ mèi pǐn zhǒng Sister breed

8 GHk2 Shì jiè zhù míng World famous

Business Terms (also vocabularies – Part 2)

No. Chinese pinyin English Translation
(simplified)
9 mnop-qr-- Shǒu xí dài biǎo or Chief representative

fgop- zhǔ yào dài biǎo

10 st- Yìng yòng To apply, application

11 ut- Yùn yòng To use

12 vwxyz- Jiàn zào gōng chéng Construction Business

shāng Trading Company
13 {|}~- Chū bù píng gū preliminary appraisal;
first round of evaluation
14 €- Cè lüè Strategy, tactic
15 ‚- Kuī sǔn (Financial) Loss, Deficit

16 ƒ„- Cāng kù Warehouse

17 …†‡ˆ- Zǔ zhī chóng zhěng Restructuring

18 ‰Š‹Œ#y- Biāo zhǔn zuò yè liú Standard Operation

chéng Procedure
19 Ž‘‰- Guān jiàn jī xiào zhǐ Key Performance
biāo Indicators
20 ’“- wài bāo Outsourcing

Setting the scene

A lot of the vocabularies introduced above can be used in various
scenarios, below is an example of a dialogue from a hypothetical
scenario: 2 business acquaintances meet up for dinner to catch up

Try to think of other context to use the vocabularies introduced above,
and we can discuss it more during our next lesson.

 

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Final Comments:
1. Make note of any words that you are not sure of, so we can go
through them during the lesson.
2. Some terms/vocabularies are used differently between Taiwan
and China. I have tried to accommodate as much as possible
the “China way”, but if you spot something from my document,
which is not how you are use to ‘hear’ from your Chinese
friends, this could be the reason why. Let me know during the
lesson, and we can tweet the document if need be!
3. Try to apply these new vocabularies to your daily dialogues with
friends or business associates. I will be asking you to give me
some real examples during our next lesson. ☺