Course: Conversational Chinese: Leisure Activities and Daily Life

快一點 means ‘hurry up, doing something!’

不但… 而且… are in two clauses, meaning ‘not only…, but also…’

In this video, students talk about snorkelling and board games, and why young people in Taiwan love these two leisure activities.

This grammar means that while doing something, another thing happens.

This grammar means as long as. 只要 and 就 are in two clauses.

不太 is a little euphemistic to say no.

In this video, three students plan to go to KTV tonight.

差不多 means about the same, roughly equivalent.

In this video, two students talk about the benefits of doing exercise.

而且 means furthermore. It usually connects two phrases or two sentences.

If the verb has two objects, 給” is needed to connect the indirect object.

In this video, the students are about to go to the cinema. They will talk about whether Taiwanese movies have English subtitles, and how to buy movie tickets and meals.

離 indicates the distance between place A and place B.

得 is a positive potential complement marker, and it is put between the verb and the resultative complement. For negative, it is 不 instead of 得.

著 is a suffix after a verb meaning ‘doing something’.