Character #354: 至 zhì
3 Lessons
Pick a Prop 至
Pick a prop to represent 至
Imagine something related to a train station as it’s related to this meaning. Harry Potter would be a good one. Alternatively, if you celebrated Christmas as a kid, you may have had one of those advent calenders that countdown the days UNTIL Christmas.
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Member Comments from 2019-mid-2020
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Kate Gans
Bullet Train
Makai Allbert
Stopwatch
William Edmeades
I'm going with a fish skeleton
Sandy
Really good one!
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PHASE 1 (Levels 1-6)
- The Basics - Why Does This Method Work?
- How our Pinyin Chart is Different
- What are Chinese Characters?
- Props
- Sets
- Actors
- Scripts
- Inspiration for Scripts
- Special Effects
- Timeboxing
- Why SRS is So Important: Frequency & Memory
- How to Use SRS
- Habit Building Part 1 - Triggers
- Habit Building Part 2 - Routine
- Habit Building Part 3 - Reward
- Habit Building Part 4 - Belief
- Stroke Order Rule #1
- Stroke Order Rule #2
- Stroke Order Rule #3
- Stroke Order Rule #4
- Stroke Order Rule #5
- Stroke Order Rule #6
- Stroke Order Rule #7
- Stroke Order Rule #8
- Stroke Order Rule #9
- Stroke Order Rule #10
- Stroke Order Rule #11
- Stroke Order Rule #12
PHASE 2 (Levels 7-12)
- Understanding Chinese Words - Morphemes
- The Six Steps to Learning Words
- 3 Questions About Words
- Top-Down & Bottom-Up Learning
Living Links Series
Word Structure Series
- Part 1 - What are Chinese Words?
- Part 2 - Verb-What 述宾式
- Part 3 - Verb-How 补充式
- Part 4 - Biased 偏正式
- Part 5 - Parallel 并列式
- Part 6 - Duplicated 重叠式
- Part 7 - Subject-Predicate 主谓式
- Part 8 - Affixed 附加式
PHASE 3 (Levels 13-20)
- The Basic Chinese Sentence
- Helper - Expressing Possession with 的
- Helper - When You Can Omit 的
- Helper - Completed Actions with 了
- Helper - Change of State with 了
- Helper - Present Actions with 着
- Connector - Saying 'But' with 但是 - 可是 - 不过
- Connector - Reasons & Actions with 因为..., 所以...
- Connector - Conditional "If-Then" Statements with 如果..., 就
- Connector - Conditional "If-Then" Statements with 要是...的话
- Connector - "Or" in Questions with 还是
- Connector - “Or" in Statements with 或/或者
- Relator - Using 为 to Express "For"
- Relator - Expressing "From" with 从
- Relator - Expressing Location with 在
- Special - Using 在 as a Verb
- Tone - Softening Tone of Voice with 呢
- “How Does What" - Adverbs of Denial
- “How Does What" - Adverbs of Degree
PHASE 4 (Levels 21-30)
Level 21
- Transferring Money by Smartphone or Bank
- Walk in the Park?! I Have 汉字 to Study!
- Who Determine's a Baby's Looks, Mom or Dad?
Level 22
- How Many Pages of the Book Have You Read?
- Many People Don't Want to Have Babies
- My Girlfriend Can Really Eat!
- What Do You Like to Do?
- What Method Works for Learning Chinese?
Level 23
- Eating Bread
- I Met My Girlfriend in the Park
- Something is Different About My Dog Lately
- The Older Brother is Better Than the Younger Brother
- The Right and Left Side of the Office
- Three Meals a Day
Level 24
- Annoying People
- Breaking Up at the End of the Date
- Going on a Date
- My Two Friends and I
- Overtime at Work
- Red Packets
- Two People in a Relationship
Level 25
- I Want to Find a Boyfriend Too
- My Dad and I
- My Dog Chouchou
- The Big Changes of China
- The Weather is Great, Let's Go to the Park!
- Xiaomei and Her Boyfriend's Day
Level 26
Level 27
- American Journalist Studies Chinese in China
- Can I Still Learn Chinese Anymore?
- Should I Change?
- Children and Their Parents
- Foreigner's Opinion of China
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Level 28
- Daughter & Mother
- Son's Eighth Birthday
- Study, Work & Life
- What's More Important, Looks, or Ability?
Level 29
- Advertisements
- Buying Tickets at Chinese New Year
- Everybody Restaurant
- How Does One Progress
- Son is Out of Control
Level 30
- Cars, Bicycles & Trains
- Potatoes & Beef
- Two Ladies Compare Who's Got it Better
- Young People Raising Cats and Dogs
Phase 4 Grammar Points
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Hajna Detre McGrath
Orient Express
Hannah van der Bijl
Love this! On the "Murder on the Orient Express", no one can leave the train UNTIL they find the killer. Perfect!
Jeff Bryant
an hourglass?
Rick Angleland
The landing signal paddles used in the past on aircraft carriers etc. UNTIL the plane has reached its stationary position. I too don't like to use a place or person for a prop because they interfere with my actors and location.
Gavia Arctica
Abstract meanings are always hard to visualize and remember. The first thing that came to my mind was "until the cows come home" and google found me a picture of some cows on a beautiful tropical beach and a text "I´m on vacation until the cows come home" -so for me this prop will be a cow.
I somehow really enjoy that image, those cows definitely look like they won´t be coming home any time soon, if at all, and I wouldn´t either if I could travel anywhere right now (2021, Covid time...) so this abstract meaning immediately became one of my most memorable scenes. There´s more things going on in the movie but it´s the cows on the beach that are the key for me to remember this. :-)
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c780nFbrAs&t=2499s
Jason Pon
I've always not been fond of using a location as a prop. e.g. a train station here, or a road/highway for 过. 2 reasons. 1) I feel it would supersede the actual location of my scene, 2) I find it would be harder to position the prop next to others to visualize the placement of components in a character.
So with this said, I do like the notion of a train station, so I think I'll use the Clock @ Grand Central Station. Pretty memorable object!