1. CHI I-101 Prof. Ling-Ling Shih (Shi Laoshi) BHSEC
Introduction (Part I)
CHI I-101
Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
(Shi Laoshi)
BHSEC
11/12/2018

2. Some useful expressions
Learning Goals
The Sound system
Some useful expressions
The Writing system
Internet resources
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
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3. Class schedule for Wk 1 & Wk 2
Part III
Chinese tones
More radicals
Part I
Syllabic Structure & Pinyin (focus on Initials)
Some Expressions: Greetings & Introduction
Internet Resources
Class schedule for Wk 1 & Wk 2
Part II
Pinyin: Finals
The Writing System
Chinese language and Dialects
Count from 1 to 10
Some Expressions
。Some Expressions
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018 3

4. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
Topics (Intro. Part I)
Introduction to Mandarin Chinese
What is the difference between Ch. And Eng.?
Chinese Language and dialects.
Pinyin System: focus on Initials. (Textbook: p. 2-5)
Some Chinese expressions: Greetings and introduction (hand-out)
Internet resources/on-line language tools.
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

5. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
What is the difference?
Indo-European language Family
Sino-Tibetan Language Family ?
Ideograms
Alphabetical Writing
Tonal language
Not a tonal language
The earlies Chinese scripts found on oracle bones around in 1250 B.C.
Old English –5 th century –10th century.
Chinese
English
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6. Chinese Language and Dialects
How many ethnic groups in China? Which Ethnic group is the largest group?
Officially 56 ethnic groups, the largest group is the Han (over 90%)
How many Chinese dialects are there? Can you name some of them?
There are 8 major regional dialects (such as Northern, Hakka, Cantonese, and Min dialects).
They are often mutually unintelligible.
What is Mandarin Chinese? What is it also known as in Mainland China? What is it also called in Taiwan and other Southeast Asia?
(See answers in the next slide)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

7. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
What is Mandarin Chinese? What is it also known as in Mainland China, Taiwan or Southeast Asia?
Mandarin Chinese is the standard language used by Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is what we are learning in the class. Its pronunciation is based on the speech of Beijing.
In mainland China: pǔtōnghuà (普通话) (literally translated “common language”); also Known as “guó yǔ”  (国语) (meaning “national language”) (1.guó : country ; nation ; 2. yǔ : dialect ; language)
In Taiwan and other regions (such as Singapre and Malaysia: “ hàn yǔ” (汉语). (“the language spoken by Han people).
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

8. What is Pinyin and Why Pinyin?
Pinyin is a phonetic system for pronouncing Chinese character.
Pinyin (Pin= spell, yin= sound)
Unlike Western language, the characters do not always indicate how they are pronounced. For example,
That is why you need pinyin.
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

9. Each Chinese character is a syllable
Character  a syllable =
(Hanyu) Pinyin is used to represent Chinese sounds.
Example: hǎo= h ǎo
(Initial） （final）
(Consonants) (Vowels)
**Finals can be vowels (e.g., a, e, i, o, u) or vowels and ending consonants –[n] or –[ng] (e.g., --ing ).
My name is made up of three characters: 施 玲 玲 shī líng  líng
Tone
(Initial) -- final
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

10. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
Pinyin is not English!!
“Zhang”
“Peng You”
“liu”，“jiu”
“cang”
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

11. Bard High School Early College
21 initial consonants in Modern Standard Chinese (not counting y & w):
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

12. Six basic Chinese vowels: http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/pinyin.htm
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

13. Chinese Four Tones: http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Tones/Tones.htm
The same syllable with different tones different meaning, different character
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

14. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
Let us randomly choose a sound “ma” and illustrate its four different tones
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
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15. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
“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
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

16. Bard High School Early College
Initials (Shēngmǔ)
A song on Initials
(b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h,j,q,x,z,y,w)
（c, zh, ch, sh, r)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

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21. Bard High School Early College
Initials: b, p, m, f
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

22. Bard High School Early College
Initials: d, t, n, l
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

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11/12/2018

24. The tongue position when you proununce “zh,” “ch”, “sh”, “r”
How to pronounce zi ci s zhi ch shi ri
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

25. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
Initials: z, c, s
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

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y, w
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

27. Bard High School Early College
聲母韻母歌
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

28. Internet Resources: Greetings and introduction.
(Growing up with Chinese--Lesson 1 Greetings).
(Easy Chinese--Lesson 1)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

29. Internet Resources: Chinese Characters with stroke order animation
Enter characters and find out the stroke count and order:
The animation of Chinese characters in the textbook “Integrated Chinese”:
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

30. Other on-line language tools:
(quickly convert selected Chinese text from any webpage to Pinyin with pronunciation.)
(Convert Chinese vocabulary/sentence into Mandarin Speech).
Links to more Chinese tools on above links.
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

31. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
On-line Dictionaries
(a valuable Chinese-English and English-Chinese Dictionary) ***
(Learn about the etymology of a Chinese character)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018

32. By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
How to Type in Chinese
(How to type Mandarin / Chinese PinYin on iOS iPad and iPhone)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College
11/12/2018