INTRODUCTION

The Chinese101 class at the University of Virginia is a unique and 
interesting class to take. The effort you put into the course will 
be reflected in your grade and in your performance in class. Since 
the course is five days a week, the class requires constant study 
and practice. Although this may seem troublesome to take a class 
five days a week, studying Chinese (or any other language) requires 
continuous practice and study for mastery of the language. The course 
is sort of a bittersweet course where you will find yourself with a 
considerable amount of homework each night. However, the cliché goes, 
"No pain, no gain." The sweet reward to the challenging course is the 
outcome in the end. Just in a matter of weeks, we found ourselves able 
to create narrative passages about hobbies and daily life. We were 
amazed at the number of characters we had memorized by the mid-term 
exam. My classmates seemed to have a very relaxed and humorous nature 
that made the class even more enjoyable than any other class. Our 
teacher was a great and caring teacher who really keeps the class’s 
attention. She understands that college students have tons of other 
schoolwork and now and then will ease off a bit, but we still learn a 
lot in our little generous breaks. So far, this is the only class I can 
stay awake in, even if I am running on three hours of sleep. If you wish 
to learn Chinese, it’s a wonderful language to learn. Taking Chinese 101 
is a highly recommended option by me.

My Most Excellent Work

1.	Lesson 1- Greetings
2.	Lesson 2- Family
3.	Lesson 5- Visiting Friends

I found that these three lessons were the most helpful and useful in striking 
up a conversation with native speakers. Lesson 1, although simple in content, 
is the most useful. Lesson 1 focuses on greetings, which are very useful in 
breaking the ice in a conversation. Lesson 2 teaches us how to ask if a 
certain object belongs to a certain someone and also teaches new structures 
for asking about someone’s occupation. Lesson 5 was a great lesson to use 
while visiting a Chinese home. Overall, all the lessons that we learned were 
useful, but to merely just pick three lessons, these three were my choices. 
All the lessons had their own theme on grammar and structure, regardless of 
topic. A lesson’s grammar is essentially the most important aspect of the 
lesson.  

Self-Introduction:         Image File      NJ Star File     Audio File	
Greetings:                 Image file      NJ Star File     Audio File
Family:                    Image file      NJ Star File     Audio File
Visiting Friends:          Image file      NJ Star File     Audio File