1. Introduction (Part III)
CHI I-101
Shi Laoshi 施老師
Bard High School Early College

2. Ling-Ling Shih,Bard High School Early College
Objectives
Introduction to Chinese tones.
Review the Initials and Vowels, together with the four tones
Review and finish on the introduction to writing system
The six ways to make Chinese characters (we focused on the first four ways).
Basic strokes
Radicals
Learn to count from one to 10 and also how to write them.
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3. Review the six ways to form Chinese Characters
Please use PPT 2 for the review
Later we will also learn the radicals.
The basic strokes and the importance of the stroke order.
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4. Learn four tones and review all the initials and finals
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Take “ma” for example, there are four tones in the sound “ma”
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Mandarin Pinyin
English Definition 妈 媽 mā
mom; mother; 麻 má
Hemp （a type of fabric) 马 馬 mǎ
horse 骂 罵 mà
To scold
Simplified ChineseTraditional ChineseMandarin PinyinEnglish Definition妈媽māma; mom; mother;麻蔴mávariant of 麻[ma2]; hemp;马馬mǎsurname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4];骂傌màvariant of 罵|骂[ma4];
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Let us randomly choose a sound “ma” and illustrate its four different tones
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4 tones
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1st tone
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2nd tone
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1st & 2nd tones
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3rd tones
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4th Tone
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13. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
Practice the 1st tone hū xī
xīn
xiān
kōng qì 呼 吸 新 鲜 空 气
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Mandarin Pinyin
English Definition 呼吸
hū xī
to breathe; 新鲜 新鮮
xīn xiān
fresh (experience, food etc); 空气 空氣
kōng qì
air; atmosphere;
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14. Try to pronounce this sentence to practice your four tones
“mother rides a horse; the horse is slow; mother scolds the horse“
Māma qímă mămàn māma màmă
妈妈 骑马, 马慢, 妈妈 骂马。
妈妈mā ma mother
骑马qí mǎ to ride a horse
慢màn slow
骂mà to scold
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Learn to pronounce different pinyin combination with four different tones
(pinyin combination chart 1)
(Pinyin combination chart 2)
(Pinyin combination chart 3)
(Pinyin combination chart 4)
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16. Archchinese.com: Free Internet resources for learning Chinese
Key features include:
Pinyin table
Animate stroke order: The best one I recommend for character animation.
Animate stroke order: All the Chinese characters defined in the national standard character set of mainland China and 7,000 frequently-used characters in the traditional Chinese character set, which is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong
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17. Please use the following to learn the radicals and numbers
for how to write the radicals.
You can also use to learn how to write radicals and numbers
For dictionary and stroke order to look up any new word:
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18. Learn the basic strokes （TB：p.15）
(This video helps you understand the Chinese character stroke order rules on TB: p 15. D)
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19. Learn to say and write 1 to 10 in Chinese!
1. another video on Counting from 1 to 10 in Chinese
2. Count from 1 to 10 in Chinese
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sān
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24. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early Collegewǔ
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26. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early Collegeqī
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jiǔ
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30. Conclusion on Introduction
Our introduction to this class include the following:
Pinyin (including four tones)
Chinese Writing Systems
Radicals
Basic strokes
Number 1 to 10
Common/classroom Expressions
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