Today’s Presentation: Mandarin 1A: Week 1 – Click me!
For homework:
- Listen to the following video (as many times as you like!) and practice. Take note of what these letters sound like to you and bring to class next week–we will discuss. Also, pay attention to the shape of her mouth while she is speaking!
Chinese Pronunciation (Click me!)
- Download and review the ChinesePod Pinyin Chart:
ChinesePod Pinyin Chart (Click me!)
- Begin to review the material before Chapter 1 in Integrated Chinese!
Here’s the pinyin in next weeks lesson. If you want, you can make flashcards with the pinyin and English so we can begin our first conversation starter next week, but we will also go over character writing basics next week, too!
Greetings Vocabulary:
nǐ – pronoun – you
hǎo -adj – fine, good
qǐng – verb- please (polite form of request); to treat or to invite
wèn – verb – to ask (a question)
guì – adj – honorable or expensive
wǒ – pronoun – I; me
ne – question particle – makes a statement into a question (no tone)
xiǎojiě – noun – Miis; young lady
jiào – verb – to be called; to call
shénme – question particle – “what”
míngzi – noun – name
xiānsheng – noun – Mister
As we talked about in class, try not to concern yourself too much with the strange grammar points like “question particle”. We’ll cover all of that in due time.
Thanks for a great class tonight!
Liu Laoshi (Sara)