Journey to the Center of the Earth 《地心游记》

Journey to the Center of the Earth: 《地心游记》 by Jules Verne is a Mandarin Companion graded reader designed for low-intermediate learners of Chinese.

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Chapter 1

• Events in quick succession with "yi... jiu"
• Turning adjectives into adverbs
• Resultative complement "chu(lai)"
• Comparing "gang" and "gangcai"
• "Bei" sentence
• "No matter" with "buguan"
• Appearance with "kanqilai"
• Expressing earliness with "jiu"
• Causative verbs
• "Ba" sentence
• Sequencing past events with "houlai"
• "If…, then…" with "ruguo…, jiu…"
• Again in the future with "zai"
• Aspect particle "zhe"
• Again in the past with "you"
• Continuation with "hai"
• Tricky uses of "dao"
• "Must" modal "dei"
• "It seems" with "haoxiang"

Chapter 2

• "If… then…" with "yaoshi"
• Expressing purpose with "weile"
• Expressing lateness with "cai"
• "zhao" as complement
• Expressing "even if…" with "jiusuan"
• Assessing situations with "kanlai"
• "Ye" and "dou" together
• "Had better" with "haishi"
• Descriptive complement
• Expressing "every time" with "mei" and "dou"
• "Not at all"
• Expressing "how often"
• Verbs with "gei"
• "Except" and "in addition" with "chule… yiwai"
• Mistakenly think that
• Descriptive complement

Chapter 3

• Comparing "chao" "xiang" and "wang"
• Adjectives with "name" and "zheme"
• Reduplication of adjectives
• Expressing "more and more" with "yue… yue…"
• "Verbing away" using "zhe"
• Further uses of resultative complement "qilai"
• Sequencing with "xian" and "zai"
• Indicating a number in excess
• "Only if" with "zhiyou"

Chapter 4

• "Never again" with "zai ye bu"
• "De" (modal particle)
• "Not… but rather…" with "er shi"
• "Not often" with "bu zenme"
• "In addition" with "zaishuo"
• Doing something less with "shao"

Chapter 5

• Referring to "all" using "suoyou"
• Complements with "dao," "gei" and "zai"
• Expressing "almost" using "chadian"
• "As long as" with "zhiyao"

Chapter 6

• "Just" with "jiu"
• Conceding a point with "shi"
• Saying "ever since" with "yilai"
• Separable verb

Chapter 7

• Result complement "-cuo"
• Basic comparisons with "yiyang"

Chapter 8

• The pattern "it's not…, it's…"
• Doing something more with "duo"
• Expressing "not only… but also"
• Comparing "haishi" and "huozhe"

Chapter 9

• "For" with "wei"
• Comparing "zongsuan" and “zhongyu"
• Expressing "everyone" with "shei"
• "Verbing around" with "lai" and "qu"

Chapter 10

• "Always" with "conglai"
• Resultative complement "zhu"

Chapter 11

• Basic comparisons with "meiyou"
• Using "dui"
• Expressing "much more" in comparisons

Chapter 12

• Comparing "turan" and “huran"