42 Essential Sentence Patterns - Intermediate Chinese Listening Practice | HSK Grammar

Have you even been unable to express more complicated thoughts in Chinese even though your vocabulary is adequate? Many times these more advanced thoughts can be expressed by knowing the appropriate Chinese sentence pattern. In this video, Eileen presents 42 essential sentence patterns that every Chinese students should master to engage in more advanced conversation. This video is also great Chinese listening practice of real Chinese - not artificial textbook conversations.
Eileen's presentation is done in slow and clear Chinese with English translations to help you understand and pronounce every word of the sentence.
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The video is presented in slow Chinese to help you understand more, faster. Also, the video covers, in a comprehensive way, HSK grammar examples dealing with sentence patterns.

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Both “等大家都到了，我们才可以开始吃。” Or “等大家都到了，我们再开始吃。“ are correct. However, the meaning and the tone are slightly different. The first one is more of a command, "Only when everyone arrives, can we then start to eat." (Do not eat until everyone arrives!) Whereas the second one is a simple statement, which means "we will start to eat when everyone arrives. "

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This is really good. I have been learning from Aileen's videos for beginners for some time. They provide great foundations on sentence structures. Thank you so much.

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The way you repeat the patterns gives me time to learn the sounds properly

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oh my god, this is so good to listen to, to learn. thank you so much.

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Thanks. These sentence patterns illustrate how smart Chinese language is to use few words in order to express the most

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this is excellent. they only suggestion I would make is that the second time an example is read to increase the speed to natural speed. thank you!

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yes , my thoughts exactly, and with the tone sandhi

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I see the tone sandhi is there. Just the second in natural speed would be perfect

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这对我帮助很大！谢谢您！（我是一个中文学生，我学汉语左右两年了，没有一个老师教过我。） sorry for any chinese mistakes im still learning :)

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What you wrote is okay. But there is one little mistake: 我学汉语两年左右了。(the order of 左右) 加油！

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Very very good. I already heard most of these sentence patterns, but not all of them. It's handy to have them all in a single video. I'll need to watch it again and again to practice.

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