Learning Chinese/foreign languages in a blended context: challenges and strategies Lijing Shi & Janet Williams 20/03/2010 Languages Staff Development Day Open University

What we are going to do  Learn some basic Chinese General information Reading Listening and Speaking Writing  Discuss the challenges for learners  Discuss the strategies for learns

Quizzes about Chinese 1. Mandarin Chinese is spoken by over one billion people. 2.Chinese origin words account for 60% of Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese vocabulary.

Quizzes 3. Mandarin Chinese was originally spoken by a group of Southerners in China. 4. People from Hong Kong may not be able to understand someone from Beijing, because they speak in different ways.

Quizzes 5. Despite political differences, the writing system is the same in Taiwan and in mainland China.

Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese characters  车

Quizzes 6. Mandarin Chinese is not an official language in Singapore any more.

Quizzes 7. It is believed that you need to know about 2000 thousand Chinese characters for daily communication.

Quizzes 8. One of the most widely used Chinese pronunciation system, Pinyin, was invented by an Italian about 200 years old.

Pronunciation Tones ā á ă à

Speaking  Numbers 一 二三四五 Try ‘ New Pepper ’

Pictograms 山 (shān) 口 (k ǒ u) 狗 (g ǒ u) 木 (m ù )

Pictograms 火 (hu ǒ ) 月 (yu è ) 人 (rén) 师 (shī)

Pictograms 天 (tiān) 羊 (y á ng) 水 (shuǐ) 日 (rì)

Writing Chinese  Strokes and Stroke Order 点 di ǎ n 横 h é ng 竖 sh ù 折 zh é 提 t í 勾 gōu 撇 piě 捺 n à

Writing Chinese 好美福安好美福安

 谢谢 （ Thank you)  再见 (See you again)