CHINESE BASIC COURSE
Textbook - Module 1
Module I
Lessons 1-6
DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER
June 1983
Revised August 1989
Preface
This third validation edition is the result of the revision of
Units 1 through 4, Orientation Module, Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach (SCAMA), and the
feedback received during the second validation of these materials (April 87.)
Abbreviations used in the glossary of this module
A:
Adverb
MA:
Movable Adverb
S/SUB:
Subject
ADJ:
Adjective
N:
Noun
SP:
Specifier
AV:
Auxiliary Verb
NU:
Number
SV:
Stative Verb
BF:
Bound Form
O:
Object
Tt:
tàitai
C/CONJ:
Conjunction
P:
Particle
TW:
Time Word
CV:
Co-Verb
PH:
Phrase
Tz:
tóngzhì
EV:
Eguative Verb
PN:
Pronoun
V:
Verb
EX:
Exclamation
PT:
Pattern
VO:
Verb Object
IE:
Idiomatic Expression
PW:
Place Word
Xj:
xiǎojiě
M:
Measure
QW:
Question Word
Xs:
xiānsheng
Module Objectives
Upon successful completion of this module you will be able to recognize, discriminate and
produce the sounds of Chinese Mandarin and to write the hànyǔ pīnyīn romanization of any of its
sounds.
Functional Objectives
At the end of the module you will be able to appropriately use Chinese to:
Identify yourself or someone else by title, surname and/or full name.
Affirm or negate someone's identity.
Greet someone and respond to a greeting.
Count from 0 to 99 to 999 in isolation.
State location of people and places.
Identify your or someone else's place of origin and nationality.
Ask and respond to questions about where someone is staying or living.
Express possession and existence using the verb yǒu.
Ask and respond to questions about the number of someone's family members, and their
relationship to each other.
Ask and respond to questions about birthday and birth places.
Ask and respond to questions about employment and places of employment.
Ask and respond to questions about specific location of place of employment.
Ask and respond to questions regarding location of specific building in relation to
other buildings or places of employment.
Dodge an impolite or embarrassing question.
Achievement of the above objectives will be evaluated by means of a CRT (Criterion
Referenced Test) administered at the end of the module