1. Ottawa Mandarin School Adult Class 2012-13 Instructor: Daniel C. Lee Week 01: September 15, 2012 1. Four Tones in Mandarin 2. Icebreaker – What, Where, When, Why, How 1

2. Introduction 介紹 Instructor: About Daniel Textbook: Speak Mandarin in 500 words Please fill out your contact information Course material can be downloaded from: http://maltzchineseclass.blogspot.ca/ Backbone of course material – Food, clothing, living, transportation, education, entertainment What would you like to learn? New Year Performance 2

3. Tones 聲調 The greatest obstacle in learning Chinese for an adult student is to master tones. – Because we have passed the age to get rid of the accents Each Chinese word has a pronunciation and a tone. – Pronunciation has to be precise. – Tone has limited degree of freedom. Chinese do not vary tones as English speakers do (hence the famous Chinglish accent.) – Getting the tone wrong is like pronouncing the word wrong. Luckily, there are only 4 tones in Mandarin – plus a light tone that usually carries insignificant meaning 3

4. Four Tones 四聲 (-) #1: high pitch and flat (ˊ) ˊ #2: starts middle, going up (ˇ) ˇ #3: low, goes down then up (ˋ) ˋ #4: starts middle, going down ( ) · Light tone: starts middle, slightly going down 4

5. 5 Tone #1 pitch time MandarinCantonese Tone #1 Tone #3 Tone #6 Tone #4 If keyword

6. 6 Tone #2 pitch time If keyword

7. 7 Tone #3 pitch time If keyword In theoryIn reality

8. One important exception When two 3 rd tones are back to back, the first one changes to 2 nd tone – 33 becomes 23 When multiple 3 rd tones are together, there can be multiple solutions as long as the 3 rd tones are broken up. The last 3 rd tone must remain. – 333 becomes 323 or 223 – 3333 becomes 2323, 3223, or 2223 8

9. 9 Tone #4 pitch time If keyword Light Tone

10. Exercise Pronounce 1, 2, 3, 4 in tones 1234 4321 1 1 1 (bold = keyword) 11 1 11 11 1 1 1 11 2 2 2 2 2 2 22 2 323232 3 44 4 44 10 3131313 1313131 2424242 3214321 3412341 1432143 1234123 3213131

11. WHAT 什麼 Chinese grammar is straight forward and easy! “What”, “When”, “How”, etc. directly replace the subject in question. What is your name?My name is Daniel. Q1. 你的名字是什麼 ? (Your name is what?) A1. 我的名字是 Daniel 。 11

12. 名字 name (given name or full name) 姓 surname 你 You 我 I 他 He 她 She 是 am, are, is Note: The BE verb is often omitted in Chinese. Example: I am learning Chinese. 我在學中文。 (I learning Chinese.) Example: 我是加拿大人。 (I am Canadian.) = 我加拿大人。 12

13. WHAT 什麼 What is your favorite food? Q2. 你最喜歡吃什麼 ? (You favorite eat what?) 最 the most 喜歡 like 吃 eat 喝 drink A2. 我最喜歡吃 … 13

14. WHAT 什麼 What is your favorite food? Q3. 你最喜歡什麼顏色的衣服 ? A3. 我最喜歡 ______ 色的衣服。 14

15. WHERE 什麼地方 (what place) Q4. 你住在什麼地方 ? (You are living at what place?) or 你住在哪裡 ? (You are living at where?) 住 live 地方 place A4. 我住在 _____________ 。 渥太華 Ottawa 加拿大 Canada 中國 China 15

16. WHERE 什麼地方 (what place) Q5. 你生在哪裡 ? (You born at where?) or 你出生在什麼地方 ? ( 出 ) 生 be born A5. 我生在 _____________ 。 美國 USA 英國 UK 法國 France 俄國 Russia 台灣 Taiwan 香港 Hong Kong 大陸 Mainland China 16

17. WHEN 什麼時候 (what time) Q6. 你什麼時候開始學中文 ? (You when start learning Chinese?) 開始 start 學 learn 中文 Chinese A6. 我 _____________ 開始學中文。 一年以前 one year ago2005 年 year 2005 一二三四五六七八九十 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17

18. WHY 為什麼 Q7. 你為什麼來上課？ (You why come to class?) 來 come 上課 attend class A7. 因為 … (Because…) 18

19. HOW 怎麼 Q8. 你怎麼來上課？ (You how come to attend class?) A8. 我 _________ 來上課。 走路 walk 坐公車 take bus 開車 drive a car 19

20. Review WHAT 什麼 WHERE 什麼地方哪裡 WHEN 什麼時候 WHY 為什麼 HOW 怎麼 20 Next week: Pronunciation (Pinyin)

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