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    Welcome to Basic Mandarin I

    Day One

    欢 迎 学 习 基 本 普 通 话 (一)
    huān yíng xué xí jī bĕn pŭ tōnghuà (yī)
    第 一 天
    dī yī tiān
    Warm Up (rèshēn) 热身

    Numbers (shùzì) 数字 :

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    líng yī èr sān sì wǔ liù qī bā jiǔ shí
    令 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
    Chinese Poem (gǔshī) 古诗

    6,7 pagodas standing


    on hilltops

    See a village with


    4,5 houses

    8,9,10 twigs of
    flowers

    Walk 1,2,3 miles


    Useful/Additional Resources
    • Chinese Strokes Order (iOS)
    • Pleco Chinese Dictionary App (Android & iOS)
    more features for Android like finger-writing
    capability. For iOS users, add a Chinese
    (Simplified) keyboard—Pinyin QWERTY and
    Handwriting.
    • http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation
    • http://www.scoop.it/t/learn-mandarin-ɑchinese
    (about Chinese life and culture)
    Listen & follow

    A: 你好 Nǐ hăo! (Hello!)
    B: 你好 Nǐ hăo! (Hi!)

    New Words
    1. 你 nǐ pronoun
    (singular) you
    2. 好 hăo adjective
    good, fine
    Listen & follow

    A: 您好 Nǐn hăo! (Hello!)


    B: 你们好 Nǐmen hăo! (Hi!)

    New Words
    1. 您 nǐn pron.
    (polite) you
    2. 你们 nǐmen pron.
    (plural) you
    Listen & follow

    A: 对不起 Duìbuqǐ (I’m sorry!)


    B. 没关系 Méi guānxi (That’s OK!)

    New Words
    1. 对不起 duìbuqǐ v.
    to be sorry
    2. 没关系 méi guānxi
    that’s OK, it doesn’t matter
    The Greeting “ 你好” (nǐ hǎo)
    1) It is an everyday greeting and is used at any time,
    on any occasion and by a person of any social
    status. The reply should also be “ 你好” .
    2) Addressing to more than one person, use
    “ 你们” (nǐmen).
    3) To show respect to a person with higher status
    than the speaker, use “ 您” (nǐn, you), 。
    你好 (common hello)
    您好 (hello with high regard)
    The Greeting “ 你好吗 ?”
    It is an everyday greeting and is usually used
    between acquaintances. The reply would be “ 我
    很好” for affirmative or “ 不好” (bù, not) for
    negative responses ( 不好 can only be used if
    friends and not with strangers).

    你好吗 ? —— 我很好 / —— 我不好


    Conversation 会活 (huì huǒ)
    大卫 – Dàwèi (prop. n.) David
    玛丽 – Màlì (prop.n.) Mary
    王兰 – Wáng Lán (prop. n.) Lan Wang
    刘京 – Liú Jīng (prop. n.) Jing Liu
    你 / 您 – nǐ/nǐn (sing. pron.) you
    很 – hěn (adv.) very
    好 – hǎo (adj.) good
    吗 – ma [a question word for yes/no questions]
    我 – wǒ (sing. pron.) I, me
    也 – yě (adv.) also
    Initials and Finals of Chinese Pinyin
    汉语拼音的声母和韵母

    声母 Initials (1) 韵母 Finals (1)


    b p m f i (yi) u (wu) ü (yü) er
    d t n l a ia (ya) ua (wa)
    g k h o uo (wo)
    j q x e ie (ye) üe (yue)
    zh ch sh r ai uai (wai)
    Note: ei uei (ui) (wei)
    Finals beginning with “i” or “u”, ao iao (yao)
    when not preceded by any initials,
    should be changed respectively
    into “y” and “w”, eg. ie→ye,
    uo→wo.
    Tones (Four Tones)
    汉语的声调（四声）
    • There are four basic tones in Chinese, respectively
    called the 1st tone, the 2nd tone, the 3rd tone, and the
    4th tone. They make a difference in meaning.

    mā má mǎ mà
    妈 麻 马 骂
    mother fibrous crops horse to scold
    Practice (líanxí) 联系

    Read the syllables aloud and pay


    attention to the tones.
    ā á ǎ à
    ō ó ǒ ò
    ē é ě è
    ī í ǐ ì Note:
    ū ú ǔ ù When the finals “i” and “u”
    form syllables by themselves,
    ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ they are preceded (or
    pronounced) respectively with
    “y” and “w”, eg. i→yi, u→wu.
    Remember (jìzhu) 记住
    Chinese Syllables 汉语的音节
    A Chinese syllable is usually made up of an initial, a final
    and a tone. Generally speaking, one Chinese character
    corresponds to one syllable. A Chinese syllable can have no
    initial, but must have a final and a tone.

    汉语的音节 Syllable 声母 Initial 韵母 Final 声调 Tone

    māo ( 猫， cat) m ao ˉ
    yú ( 鱼， fish) ü ′
    jiě ( 姐， big j ie ˇ
    sister)
    èr ( 二， two) er ‵
    yī 衣 bǐ 笔 jī 鸡

    wǔ 五 māo 猫 qī 七

    yú 鱼 dǎo 岛 xíe 鞋

    ěr 耳 huā 花 xuě 雪
    kāfēi 咖啡 kělè 可乐 kǎoyā 烤鸭

    huǒguō 火锅 dìtú 地图 fēijī 飞机

    máobǐ ěrjī
    毛笔 耳机
    Tone Sandhi: 3rd tone + 3rd tone
    两个三声音节的连读变调
    When two 3rd tone syllables are read in
    sequnece, the first syllable turns into the 2nd
    tone, i.e., the 3+3 sequence becomes 2+3 one.
    However, when put in the written form, the
    original tone is kept.
    ∨ ﹢ ∨ ﹦ ／ ﹢ ∨
    nǐ ( 你 ) hǎo ( 好 ) ní hǎo
    kě ( 可 ) yǐ ( 以 ) ké yǐ
    xiǎo ( 小 ) jiě ( 姐 ) xiáo jiě
    Conversation 会活 (huì huǒ)
    你们 – nǐmen (plu. pron.) you
    都 – dōu (adv.) all
    来 – lái (v.) to come
    他们 – tāmen (plu. pron.) them
    The Pronouns
    1st Person Pronoun 2nd Person Pronoun 3rd Person Pronoun

    我 wǒ 你 nǐ 他 tā
    我们 wǒmen 您 nǐn 她 tā
    你们 nǐmen 它 tā
    您们 nǐnmen 他们 tāmen
    她们 tāmen
    它们 tāmen
    Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)

    A ：你好！
    你好
    B ： ___________!
    A ：他好吗？
    他很好
    B ： ___________ 。
    Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)

    A & B ：您好！
    你们好
    C ： __________!
    Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)
    玛丽：你好吗？
    很好 。你呢 / 你好
    王兰： ________
    吗？
    你呢 (nǐ ne, how about you)
    Note:我也很好
    玛丽： ________
    他很好 。刘京好吗？
    都很好
    王兰： ________ ，我们 ______ 。
    More greetings

    • 你好 → 你们，您，他 / 她 / 它，大家，老师
    nǐhăo nǐmén nǐn tā/tā/tā dàjiā lǎoshī

    • 我很好 → 我们，都
    wǒhěnhăo wǒmén dōu

    • 你的 名字 叫 什么？ (What’s your name?)


    nǐ de míngzì jiào shénme

    • 我的 名字 叫 莎丽。 (My name is Sally.)


    wǒ de míngzì jiào shālí

    • 认识 你 很 高兴。 (Very nice to meet you.)


    rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng

    • 欢迎 光临。 (Welcome.)
    Other words to know.

    • 早 上 好， 下午好， 晚 上 好，
    晚安
    zǎoshànghăo xiàwǔhǎo wǎnshànghǎo wǎn’ān

    Good morning Good afternoon Good evening Good night

    • 请坐下 qǐng zuò xià (Please sit down)


    • 好好听 hǎo hao tīng (Listen carefully)
    • 上课， 下课
    shàngkè xiàkè

    Class begins Class is over

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