Mandarin Week 7 — Bronze Passed — Promoted to Silver Rank 💰 Earn & learn

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🎥 Speaking Mandarin:

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🧾 Intro / Reflection

Passed Silver 1! Honestly, these promo tests felt pretty easy and smooth. Most of my mistakes were small grammar slips, like having the wrong word order in some sentences.
The tests were mostly conversation, translation, and word recall, nothing too difficult. I reviewed my notes from Bronze 1–5 a couple of times, but since I felt confident in the vocab, I focused more on conversations. There’s a big difference between recalling memorized words and actually applying them in sentences, so the extra practice helped.
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📚 What I Learned This Rank
✅ Bronze

Category	Covered
Self introductions	✅
Routine	✅
Interests + Hobbies	✅
Feelings	✅
Shopping	✅
Directions	✅
Short Conversations	✅

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✅ Bronze Mandarin Test Results

🏆 PART 1: Comprehensive Roleplay Challenge

Scenario:
You are in China for a weekend trip. You need to:

1. Greet someone politely and introduce yourself.
2. Order food at a restaurant (ask for at least 2 things, ask a follow-up question).
3. Ask where something is (direction/location).
4. Talk briefly about what you did yesterday and what you will do tomorrow.
5. Add in at least one description with an adjective (e.g., “the tea is hot,” “the park is big”).

👤 Waiter:
“Ni hao! Huanying guanglin! Qingwen, ni yao chi shenme?”
🙋‍♂️Me: Ni hao! Nimen zai zhar hen hao chi de shi shemne?
👤 Waiter:
Nǐ hǎo! Huānyíng guānglín!
Wǒmen zhèr yǒu hěn hǎo chī de niúròu miàn, jīdàn chǎofàn, hái yǒu shuǐguǒ shālā. Nǐ xiǎng cháng yī cháng ma?
🙋‍♂️Me: na wo yao yi wen niurou mian, yi wan jidan chaofan, haiyou yi bei cha
👤 Waiter:
Hǎo de!
Nǐ yào de shì: yī wǎn niúròu miàn, yī wǎn jīdàn chǎofàn, yī bēi chá
🙋‍♂️Me: Qǐngwèn, nǐ yào hóng chá háishì lǜ chá?
lu cha xie xie.
👤 Waiter:
Hǎo de, lǜ chá yī bēi

👩‍💼Local person:
Qǐngwèn, nǐ xǐhuan tiānqì zěnme yàng? Jīntiān tiānqì hěn rè, háishì bù rè?
🙋‍♂️Me: wo zui xihuan de tianqi shi xiayu, bu ru ye bu leng de.
👩‍💼 Local person:
Zhēn hǎo! Nà nǐ zuótiān zuòle shénme? Míngtiān yǒu shénme jìhuà?
🙋‍♂️Me: wo zuo tian qu le shangdian mai ji dan, mifan, ji rou, niu rou, haiyou shucai.
Ming tian wo xiang he pengyou qu kan dian ying he wan youxi.
👩‍💼 Local person:
Zhēn hǎo! Qǐngwèn, cāndiàn zhīqián nǐ yào hǎo hào chī diǎn shénme, hái shì yào kàn cài dān ne?
🙋‍♂️Me: zhege candian de cai zhen hao chi

⚠️ Corrections / Suggestions

1. Small spelling or word fixes:

• “zhar” → “zhe’r” or just “zher” for “here”
• “Rememeber” → “Remember” (minor English typo in your notes 😄)
• “bu ru ye bu leng” → “bú rè yě bú lěng” (correct way to say “not hot and not cold”)
• “ji dan” → “jīdàn”, “mifan” → “mǐfàn”, “ji rou” → “jīròu”, “niu rou” → “niúròu”

2. Natural phrasing adjustments:

• Instead of “ni men de niurou he jidan zai nali?” you could say:
  “Nín hǎo, qǐngwèn, nǐmen de niúròu hé jīdàn zài nǎlǐ?” (more polite & smoother)
• “wo zui xihuan de tianqi shi xiayu, bu ru ye bu leng de” →
  “Wǒ zuì xǐhuān de tiānqì shì xiàyǔ, bú rè yě bú lěng.”

3. Consistency with Chinese particles & tones in Pinyin:

• You don’t need tones for your system, but watch small typos that can change meaning (e.g., ye → yě, ru → rè).

4. Optional expansions:

You could include “because”/“so” linking words for extra fluency:
Wǒ xǐhuān xià yǔ de tiānqì, yīnwèi wǒ juédé hěn fàngsōng.
Míngtiān tiānqì hěn hǎo, suǒyǐ wǒ xiǎng hé péngyǒu qù kàn diànyǐng.

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🔹 Prompt 1: Morning Routine + Tomorrow Plan

Write or speak about:

• What time you woke up today, what you did this morning.
• What you ate.
• What you will do tomorrow.
• Try to use present, past, and future tense, linking words, and at least one adjective.

wo jintian zhaoshang liu dian qichuang, shuaya, ranhou chi zhaofan.
Wo zhaofan chi le miantaio he jidan.
wo mingtian yao he pengyou qu dongwuyuan, ranhou qu pengyou de ja da lanqiu.

💡 Notes:

• “zhaoshang” → zǎoshang
• “miantaio” → miàntiáo
• “ja da lanqiu” → dǎ lánqiú
• “pengyou de ja da lanqiu” → pengyou jia dǎ lánqiú (simpler, clearer)
• Good use of past tense (le), future tense (xiǎng…qù), and linking words (ránhòu)

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🔹 Prompt 2: Introduce Yourself & a Friend + Food Preferences

Write or speak about:

• Introduce yourself and a friend (name, nationality).
• Say what you both like and dislike to eat.
• Include simple questions and answers in your text.
• Use present tense, adjectives, and possessive pronouns.

zhe shi wode pengyou, Matt, wo renshi ta henjiule. Ta shi meiguo ren.
Matt, ni xihuan chi shenme?
Matt: Wo xihuan chi tiande, ni ne? |
Wo bu xihuan chi tiande, danshi wo xihuan la de, ni xihuan chi la de ma?
Matt: Wo buxihuan.

💡 Notes:

• “henjiule” → hěn jiǔ le (spacing, tone marks optional for your system)
• “buxihuan” → bù xǐhuān
• You used questions, adjectives (tián, là), and conjunctions (dànshì) — perfect for Bronze → Silver.

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🔹 Prompt 3: Directions from Train Station to Favorite Cafe

Write or speak about:

• How to get from the train station to your favorite cafe.
• Include prepositions, linking words, and polite phrases like “请问…”
• Mention at least 2 landmarks or turns.
• Use short sentences strung together.

Qingwen, ni neng bang wo ma?
Wo bu zhidao na ge huoche wo yao zuo qu jige cafe dian.
Ni zhidao zhege cafe dain pangbian you shenme? xie xie nin.

💡 Notes:

• “huoche wo yao zuo qu” → huǒchē zhàn zěnme zuò qù (makes it clear it’s the station you’re starting from)
• “dain pangbian” → diàn pángbiān
• Very good survival phrases: “qǐngwèn”, “zhīdào…ma”, “xièxie nín”

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Task 1: Translation

Translate this sentence into Chinese (pinyin, no tones needed):
“Yesterday I went to the park and played basketball with my friend.”

zuotian wo qule gongyuan haiyou he pengyou da le lanqiu

💡 Notes:

• Add a comma before “hái hé péngyǒu” for clarity.
• “haiyou he pengyou” → “hái hé péngyǒu” (means “and also with my friend”)

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Task 2: Grammar Multiple Choice

Choose the correct way to complete the sentence:

Wo ____ chi le zhaofan.
A) zai
B) le
C) shi

Wo zai chi le zhaofan

❌ Incorrect. Correct answer: le

Wǒ chī le zǎofàn.

💡 Notes:

• “zài” is used for present continuous (e.g., “wǒ zài chī zǎofàn” = I am eating breakfast), but here the past tense is required, so le is correct.

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Task 3: Spot the Mistake

Find and correct the mistake in this sentence:
Wo xiang qu chi la de miantiao, danshi wo bu xihuan chi miantiao.

Wo qu chi le miantiao, danshi wo bu xihuan chi miantiao

💡 Notes:

• “danshi” → dànshì
• Spacing in Pinyin helps readability

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Task 4: Comprehension

Read this sentence and answer in English:

Jīntiān tiānqì bú rè yě bú lěng, suǒyǐ wǒ xiǎng qù gōngyuán sànbù.

Question: Why does the speaker want to go to the park today?

Ta xiang qu gongyuan yinwei bu re ye bu leng.

💡 Notes:

• sànbù” = “to take a walk.” Better to say: “He wants to go to the park for a walk because it’s not hot and not cold.”

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Task 5: Vocabulary Sentence

Create one sentence in Chinese (pinyin) that uses:

• a weather phrase
• a color

jingtian de tianqi xiaxue, hen leng.
wo xihuan heisi de yi fu.

💡 Notes:

“jingtian” → “jintian.” Also heisi is uncommon; just say hei se (black).

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🎯 Next Steps / Goals
Time to start Silver 1! Talking about what happened in my day, the past, weekend plans, describing situatinos, and time markers.

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📚 Resources I Used

• ChatGPT (for sentence practice + explanations + tests)
• YouTube (for pronunciation + listening)
• Google Translate (for fast checks)
• My language language learning structure (coming soon)

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• 🧠 Duolingo – decent for language base, I personally don’t like it.
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