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Nov 10th, 2011 by Maiya Saunders
¿Qué tal amigos? Here is the link to the class notes from today’s lesson on present indicative verbs. I updated the charts from the post I put up on Nov. 4th (lección seis- parte b), so now they match the order in which you have them on your verb sheets :).
¡Gracias por venir a clase! Hasta luego…
Nov 10th, 2011 by Robin Chen
This week, we learned about restaurants! We went to a 餐馆, looked at a 菜单, and ordered 两盘素菜, 一盘荤菜, 和一盘炒饭。 We also had 一壶茶 and 四碗酸辣汤.
| 餐馆 | cānguǎn | restaurant |
| 菜单 | càidān | menu |
| 素菜 | sùcài | vegetarian dish |
| 荤菜 | hūncài | meat dish |
| 炒饭 | chǎofàn | fried rice (or… remember the slang definition?) |
| 一壶茶 | yī hú chá | a pot of tea |
| 酸辣汤 | suān là tāng | hot and sour soup |
We also learned about tableware! Do you remember what these are? Try to remember what they’re called, then hover over the images to see the Chinese characters and pinyin!
Here are some sentence patterns that we learned. Your homefun is to use these sentences to tell about your restaurant experience!
我点了 (一盘豆腐、 一碗饭)。
Wǒ diǎn le (yī pán dòufu, yī wǎn fàn).
(菜)很好吃！ / (菜)有很好的味道！
(Cài) hěn hào chī! / (cài) yǒu hěn hǎo de wèidào!
Nov 10th, 2011 by Leslie Hayner
Last Friday we reviewed the passé composé from the prior week and started talking about the imparfait. We discussed the differences between the two tenses and the usage of both. To review Dr. Mrs. Vandertrampp verbs, we watched a cute little YouTube video that you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARq57Ux9Ikc&feature=related
Nov 9th, 2011 by Karen Wong
Da ga ho!
I know that it’s been a while since we’ve posted on this blog, but please know that the BUILD Cantonese google site is still up and running. We just finished our Lesson 6 last Friday where we began to brainstorm some ideas for our class skit! This week (for Lesson 7) we will begin creating the skit.
For those of you who are still interested in Cantonese or have not been to classes recently, it’s not too late! You can still join us! We meet every Friday at 4pm. Beginning level in CF452 and intermediate level in Morse B107!
Nov 6th, 2011 by Kimberley Murakami
Minasan Konnichiwa!
Thank you for coming to our lesson on Friday.
We reviewed dates and months and talked about time.
Here is a link to a website with a video to review and practice telling the time:
We also introduced some verbs:
おきる okiru to wake up/get up
ねる neru to go to sleep
はりまる hajimaru to start/begin
おわる owaru to end/finish
We combined the time and the verbs to make sentences like:
何時 に おきますか。 Nanji ni okimasu ka? What time do you wake up?
八時 に おきます。 Hachiji ni okimasu. I wake up at eight o'clock.
Other vocabulary:
たぶん tabun maybe
たぶん 七時 に おきます。 Tabun shichi ji ni okimasu. Maybe I'll get up at seven o'clock.
ごろ goro about/around
十二時 ごろ ねます。 Juuniji goro nemasu I'll got to sleep around 12:00.
Here's the link to the Word document with this information.
どうも ありがとう。
Doumo arigatou!
また 来週！
Mata raishuu!
(See you next week!)
Karen and Kimby
Nov 6th, 2011 by Becky Bierman
In our Friday class this week, we started putting together our own recipes. We constructed sentences to go in a recipe for cake, sandwiches, crêpes and stir-frys! All the new vocabulary words that we used can be found here.
Now let’s try making more sentences, and seeing if we can guess what type of recipe they would be in! I’ll start in the comments below with a sentence that would appear in a recipe. The next person can guess what the person above them might be cooking, and then add a sentence of their own! On y va…
Nov 4th, 2011 by Maiya Saunders
Hola amigos. Aquí les doy el vínculo para la explicación de como conjugar los verbos del indicativo presente. / Hi everyone. Here is the link for the explanation of how to conjugate verbs in the present indicative, which we’ll be learning about next week.
This will be useful information to browse through ahead of next week’s class if you’re interested, as I have all the space I want to explain how it’s done :).
Thanks for participating in our song activity yesterday, it was really fun!
Nov 3rd, 2011 by Robin Chen
同学们好！
This week, we went over classifiers in Chinese! In English, we have measure words, e.g. a cup of water, a flock of sheep, a school of fish. Chinese has measure words too, but the usage is often required when it wouldn’t be in English. The ones we learned in class are below, with example vocabulary next to each measure word.
| 条 tiáo | 鱼 yú |
裤子 kùzi |
鞋带 xiédài |
河 hé |
绳子 shéngzi |
路 lù |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| describes long, flexible or winding things | ||||||
| 张 zhāng | 纸 zhǐ |
桌子 zhuōzǐ |
报纸 bàozhǐ |
地图 dìtú |
支票 zhīpiào |
床单 chuángdān |
| describes flat, rectangular, usually stiff things | ||||||
| 串 chuàn | 肉 ròu |
葡萄 pútáo |
项链 xiàngliàn |
数字 shùzì |
大蒜 dàsuàn |
香蕉 xiāngjiāo |
| describes things attached in a series | ||||||
| 双 shuāng | 鞋子 xiézi |
袜子 wàzi |
手套 shǒutào |
手 shǒu |
眼睛 yǎnjīng |
筷子 kuàizi |
| describes pairs | ||||||
| 件 jiàn | 体恤 tǐxù |
背心 bèixīn |
旗袍 qípáo |
毛衣 máoyī |
内衣 nèiyī |
夹克 jiákè |
| describes items of clothing except for pants | ||||||
Don’t forget, the measure word can sometimes change depending on context! Just like how people don’t usually drink a keg of beer in one go, but rather a bottle, you don’t usually eat a bunch of bananas 一串香蕉 but just one banana 一根香蕉.
Nov 3rd, 2011 by Sendy Ramos
Review:
Hola — Hello, hi
¿Cómo estás? ¿Cómo está? — How are you?
Me llamo (nombre).— My name is (name)
¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cómo se llama usted? — What’s your name?
Mucho gusto. Encantado. — It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Muy bien, gracias — Very well, thank you.
Buenos días — Good day, good morning
Buenas tardes — Good afternoon
Buenas noches — Good night
Colors:
rojo- red
anaranjado- orange
amarillo- yellow
verde- green
azul- blue
morado- purple
negro- black
gris- gray
rosado- pink
blanco- white
Hola — Hello, hi
¿Cómo estás? ¿Cómo está? — How are you?
Me llamo (nombre).— My name is (name)
¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cómo se llama usted? — What’s your name?
Mucho gusto. Encantado. — It’s a pleasure to meet you.
Muy bien, gracias — Very well, thank you.
Buenos días — Good day, good morning
Buenas tardes — Good afternoon
Buenas noches — Good night
Can you please speak slower? ¿Puedes hablar mas despacio, Por favor?
Can you please repeat? ¿Puedes repetir, por favor?
What did you do yesterday? ¿Que hiciste ayer?
How do you say? ¿Como se dice?
Words Tossed around in class:
Week Semana
Question Pregunta
Shirt Camisa
Blouse Blusa
Happy Feliz
Sad Triste
Thank you Gracias
Please Por Favor
Articles of clothing — Prendas de vestir
bathrobe — el albornoz
belt — el cinturón (leather belt, cinturón de cuero)
blouse — la blusa
boots — las botas
cap — la gorra, el gorro
coat — el abrigo
dress — el vestido
gloves — los guantes
hat — el sombrero
jacket — la chaqueta
jeans — los jeans, los vaqueros, los bluyines, los tejanos
miniskirt — la minifalda
pajamas — la pijama
pants, trousers — los pantalones
purse — el bolso
raincoat — el impermeable
sandal — la sandalia
shirt — la camisa
shoe — el zapato
shorts — los pantalones cortos, el short, las bermudas, los culotes
skirt — la falda
slipper — la zapatilla
sock — el calcetín
stocking — la media
suit — el traje
sweater — el suéter, el jersey, la chompa
sweatshirt — la sudadera, el pulóver (with hood, con capucha)
sweatsuit — el traje de entrenamiento
swimsuit — el bañador, el traje de baño
tennis shoe, sneaker — el zapato de tenis, el zapato de lona
tie — la corbata
T-shirt — la camiseta, la playera
underwear — la ropa interior
wristwatch — el reloj (de pulsera)
Nov 2nd, 2011 by Maiya Saunders