Beyond yoUrself In Language Development

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)

大家好!

Today in class, we introduced ourselves to each other with an icebreaker activity. Then we went over how to make 珍珠奶茶. In the process, we reviewed numbers, fractions, measure words, ingredients, nominal numbers, how to read a recipe, the 把 construction, and how to describe a procedure. In the end, everyone sampled 陈老师‘s perfect cup of milk tea!

Here is a link to our presentation. In it, you will find the milk tea ingredients, recipe, vocabulary, and supplementary materials. You can also find a spreadsheet with vocabulary words here.

A brief recap:

Ordinal Numbers

第一： first
第二： second
第三： third
and so on…

Fractions

3/4 = 四分之三
1/2 = 二分之一 or 一半

Optional Homework

If you would like to review what you learned today, please complete the table labeled “Grammar Points” on the handout we gave out today. Fill in the appropriate measure words, ingredients, and actions for each row of the table. If you didn’t make it to class today, you can download the handout here.

Hope to see you next week! 下周见!

Qian and Robin

Dear Students,

Please find the blog for Mandarin 1A by following this link: Mandarin 1A Blog

This site will have all class resources as well as homework assignments, syllabus and weekly re-caps.

Enjoy!

祝好，

刘老师 (Sara)