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Thanks to this post about improving sentence structure https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/62960-improving-sentence-structure/page/2/#comment-492407

, I've decided to do the Kubler Intermediate Spoken Chinese book. I purchased the Kubler Basic Spoken and Intermediate Spoken at the same time a few years ago. I finished the Basic and Basic Practice years ago, which I loved:

but never got around to the Intermediate Kubler books because I wanted to move away from Pinyin. Well, now I've embarked on the Intermediate Spoken and Spoken Practice Book.

However, after getting through part of the first unit of Intermediate, I had this nagging feeling that I should re-do the audio drills of the Basic book. I decided to revisit them and go through them at a fast clip, just the audio drills and the translation role plays. I've already finished half of this basic review. I can't decide if I'm wasting time or it's a good check of the foundation. I'm hoping to get through it is quickly as possible, and get back to the Intermediate. I guess about an hour and a half a day for 5 more days should do it.

The other day, my teacher gave me homework to write about the new tea tray I bought. Here's my writing followed by her corrections:

让我介绍一下我新买的茶盘。因为我南方家里的茶盘比较大，所以我买了一个小的更适合我北京房间。我选择这种茶盘的过程是这样。我两年以前去广东北边的潮州古城旅游。那时候我很多次看过老人坐在走道上喝茶，聊天。他们用的茶盘很简单。它的样子是圆形的，不太大。有的人用陶瓷的，有的人用不锈钢的。几天前我在淘宝上看了看。我找到一些从潮州来自功夫茶盘。最后我选择了一个12英寸（30厘米），白色的。它要花差不多一百块钱包括快递费。今天早上茶盘到了。我很开心。我觉得这个茶盘挺好看的。我现在能在家里喝茶像潮州老人一样。

With corrections(my wrong sentence in parenthesis):

让我介绍一下我新买的茶盘。因为我南方家里的茶盘比较大，所以我买了一个小的更适合我北京房间。我选择这种茶盘的过程是这样。我两年以前去广东北边的潮州古城旅游。那时候我很多次看过老人坐在走道上喝茶，聊天。他们用的茶盘很简单。它的样子是圆形的，不太大。（他们用的茶盘很简单，圆的，不太大。)有的人用陶瓷的，有的人用不锈钢的。几天前我在淘宝上看了看。我找到一些从潮州来自功夫茶盘。（我找到一些从潮州来的功夫茶盘/我找到一些来自潮州的功夫茶盘。）最后我选择了一个12英寸（30厘米），白色的。它要花差不多一百块钱包括快递费（加上邮费差不多一百块钱）。今天早上茶盘到了。我很开心。我觉得这个茶盘挺好看的。我现在能在家里喝茶像潮州老人一样。（我现在在家里就能像潮州老人一样喝茶了。）

茶盘=tea tray 

过程 = process

潮州 = Chaozhou

古城 = ancient city

走道 = sidewalk

圆 = circle, round

陶瓷 = porcelain, ceramic

不锈钢 = stainless steel

功夫 = gong fu

英寸 = inches

厘米 = cm

厘米 = include

快递费 = delivery fee