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Lesson 15:

Are you ready to learn some of the most useful characters? These next lessons teach some of the most frequently used characters. Study these for a few seconds then click play and watch the lesson: **白 的 不 小** media type="file" key="07white_small.avi" width="300" height="300" Using these characters to combine with other characters, you add 6 more vocabulary words! **__Take time__** to think why the combination of characters creates each new word: 明白 understand 白天 day time 不明不白 Do not understand 小朋友 young friend (usually refers to any children) 小人 villian 大小size Read this language weave:  有一天有一 个 小人. 这个小人 不明不白小朋友. thought during the 白天小朋友slept, and during the night 小朋友play. 一天 这个 小人 wanted to steal 小朋友的toys. 这个 小人 quietly walked into the 小朋友的 backyard and saw 一百个 toys. 这个 小人 quickly started to pick them up when all of the sudden 五个小朋友s came out with guns! 小朋友的guns were play guns, of course, but the 小人不明白 that. 这个小人 ran away faster than a speeding bullet. But, on his way out his shirt got caught on the fence. He was 太scared to take his shirt off the fence so he took his shirt off his body! Because of that, the police were able to figure out his 大小 and arrest him. The 小朋友s were heroes!

How did you do? Good job for the 日.

Lesson 16 Now for a review lesson:

See if you can read this story while following along with the recording. The characters in red are the ones you have not learned yet. However, you have heard most of them in previous stories or you have learned them in the very first lesson on common words and phrases. Using context and guessing, figure this story out.

有一天有一 个 大人.这 个 大人是  我的朋友. 这 个 大人 是一 个 文人. 这 个 文人明白了太多. 这 个 大人明白了天, 明白了一千 个 事. 我 喜歡 这 个 大人. 这 个 文人不是一 个 小人. 这 个 大人明天 會 幫助 我 明白astronomy. 我們兩 个 人 會 明 白astronomy. Now you write your own language weave or story completely in characters. Here are the vocabulary words that you know: 小朋友 小人 大小 明白 白天 不明不白 不明白  ** 这 ** 个 个     人 文人 明天 天明 明了 明明 天天 太太 大人 一月 二月 三月 四月 五月 六月 七月 八月 九月 十月 十一月 十二月 不小 Here are the characters you know: 人大太天日月明朋友又文 這一二三四五六七八九十百千個内兩白的不小

If you need help remembering what each word or character means, you may look below. However, try to remember before you look!

Here are the characters you know: 人 person 大 big 太 too 天 sky 日 sun 月moon, month 明 clear 朋友friend 又 again 文ccript 這 this 一1 二2三3四4五5六6七7八8九9十10百100 千1,000 個measure word 内 within 兩 a couple 白 white 的 's 不 negator 小small **
 * 小朋友 young child 小人 villain 大小 size 明白 understand 白天 daytime 不明不白 don't understand　不明白 don't understand 這個 This one 個人 ilndividual 文人 scholar 明天 tomorrrow 天明 dawn 明了 clear 明明 very clear 天天 every day 太太 wife 大人 adult 一月 January 二月 February 三月 March 四月 April 五月 May 六月 June 七月 July 八月 August 九月 September 十月 October 十一月 November 十二月 December 不小 big--not small

