Chinese Pinyin / Characters Introduction Keli Su 9/1/2014

Objective: 1. Learn about the Chinese language 2. Become familiar with basic Chinese pronunciation 3. Know the six categories of Chinese Characters; 4. Know the Chinese Characters have evolved Throughout Chinese history.

Consonants & Vowels b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c s a o e i u ü http://kid.chinese.cn/rhymes/article/2011-02/23/content_229524.htm http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Pinyin_Notes.htm#2. Consonants http://www.yoyochinese.com/Chinese_pinyin_cheat_sheet.jpg Sing pinyin song

Read with me http://www.yes-chinese.com/pinyin/

Pinyin & Zhuyin

Tones Four tones First tone (¯) Second tone (´) Third tone (ˇ) Fourth tone (ˋ) Neutral tone No tone marks on the neutral tone 漢語拼音教學動畫大全 http://blog.huayuworld.org/school17/12342/2009/04/08/27586 tone: b: http://blog.huayuworld.org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_b.swf a: http://blog.huayuworld.org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_a.swf Pass the “tone presenting story” for English comparison

Pinyin practice Tone http://pinyinpractice.com/tones.htm Initial http://pinyinpractice.com/initials.htm Final http://pinyinpractice.com/finals.htm Quiz http://pinyinpractice.com/selfquiz.htm

Writing Traditional Chinese 漢字 Simplified Chinese 汉字

Six Categories (六书 / 六書). Pictograms 象形字 2. Ideograms 指事字 3. Ideogrammic compounds 会意字 4. Phono-semantic compounds 形声字 5. Transformed cognates 转注字 Rebus 假借字 Watch “汉字 Chinese Characters CCTV” from 中国文化欣赏_web

Pictograms 象形字 日 rì for "sun", 月 yuè for "moon“, 木 mù for "tree”, Characters in this class derive from pictures 日 rì for "sun", 月 yuè for "moon“, 木 mù for "tree”,

Ideograms 指事字 上 shàng "up“ 下 xià "down” Characters either modify existing pictographs iconically, or are direct iconic illustrations 上 shàng "up“ 下 xià "down”

Ideogrammic compounds 会意字 Translated literally as logical aggregates or associative compounds, these characters symbolically combine pictograms or ideograms to create a third character. 木 mù "tree” 林 lín "grove", 森 sēn "forest".

Phono-semantic compounds 形声字 The phono-semantic compounds, also called semantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds. pictographic phonetic 河 hé “river”, 氵shuǐ 可 kě 湖 hú "lake", 氵shuǐ 胡 hú

Transformed cognates 转注字 The mutual-explanatory characters typically are a pair or a group of characters, that share the same radical and have similar meaning. 考 kǎo "to verify" 老 lǎo "old" were once the same character, meaning "elderly person"

Rebus 假借字 自 zì, "oneself“, original meaning of "nose” Also called borrowings or phonetic loan characters, this category covers cases where an existing character is used to represent an unrelated word with similar pronunciation; sometimes the old meaning is then lost completely. 自 zì, "oneself“, original meaning of "nose” 萬 wàn, "ten thousand“, originally meant "scorpion”

Basic strokes Sing stroke song Watch “天下第一字” in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx_pzdZnmRA Pass the 永 tracing paper for writing practice

Stroke order Horizontal before vertical Downward left before right From top to bottom From left to right From outside to inside From inside to outside Middle before two side Inside before closing

Chinese Characters Play the video ~5 min (中国文化欣赏_汉字)

Radicals http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/output/index.html 人 刀 力 又 口 囗 土 夕 大 女 子 寸 小 工 弓 心 戈 手 日 月 木 水 火 田 目 示 糸 耳 衣 言 貝 走 足 金 門 隹 雨 食 馬 IC2E_L1P1_p22 from www.cheng-sui.com_files_IC2E_L1P1_TxtSimp_4609_0.pdf Find pinyin and meaning for each radical ; find pinyin and meaning for one family character from the radical .

Two Chinese radical charts

Group work: 1. make 5 groups 2. Each group take one column 3. Group discussing then sharing

Self practice_1: Matching the words Exchange the paper to score

Self practice_2: Matching the words Exchange the paper to score

Let us practice: 衣魚母子車

Practice 一 ~ 十 from 中文百宝箱. Sing song_我的朋友在哪里_whereIsMyFriend

Classroom Expressions_1 1. Nǐ hǎo! How are you? How do you do? 2. Lǎoshī hǎo! How are you, teacher? 3. Shàng kè. Let’s begin the class. 4. Xià kè. The class is over. 5. Dǎ kāi shū. Open the book. 6. Wǒ shuō, nǐmen tīng. I’ll speak, you listen. 7. Kàn hēibǎn. Look at the blackboard.

Classroom Expressions_2 8. Duì bú duì? Is it right? 9. Duì! Right! Correct! 10. Hěn hǎo! Very good! 11. Qǐng gēn wǒ shuō. Please repeat after me. 12. Zài shuō yí biàn. Say it again. 13. Dǒng bu dǒng? Do you understand? 14. Dǒng le. Yes, I/we understand; I/we do. 15. Zài jiàn! Good-bye!

Survival Expressions 1. Duì bù qǐ! Sorry! 2. Qǐng wèn... Excuse me...; May I ask... 3. Xiè xie! Thanks! 4. Zhè shì shén me? What is this? 5. Wǒ bù dǒng. I don’t understand. 6. Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn. Please say it one more time. 7. “…” Zhōng wén zěn me shuō? How do you say “…” in Chinese? 8. “…” shì shén me yì si? What does “…” mean? 9. Qǐng nǐ gěi wǒ... Please give me... 10. Qǐng nǐ gào sù wǒ... Please tell me...

Supplement Links for Integrated Chinese Level 1: Introduction http://eall.hawaii.edu/yao/ICUsers/ic1Int.htm 中文听说读写: http://www.language.berkeley.edu/ic/ I / C conversation, test & lots more. Tools: http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ 漢典(汉典)： http://www.zdic.net/ 全民大词典：http://www.yes-chinese.com/v2010/dict_ce/search.do

21 Century Tech Your eMail address Web accessing for the assignment Listening: Add voice clip into the handout Speaking: You record the voice clip to me Reading: Add voice clip into the handout Writing: Type汉字 into computer Internet sharing

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