1. BEGINNING CHINESE I 初级汉语 （上）

2. 你们好 ( Nǐmen hǎo ) HELLO Y’ALL! Today’s Agenda  Survey Form  Course overview and syllabus  Pinyin primer  Useful expressions (Yes! You are speaking Chinese today!)  Characters primer  Homework assignment

3. 1. S URVEY F ORM  Please fill out the form and return it to your lǎoshī (teacher).

4. Nǐ hǎo Nǐmen hǎo Lǎoshī hǎo Lǎoshī nín hǎo Greetings

5. 2. C OURSE O VERVIEW Course Materials:  Liu, Yuehua, et al. (2009) Integrated Chinese: Level 1 Part 1 Textbook (Simplified Characters), 3 rd Edition, Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, Inc.  Integrated Chinese Character Workbook  Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Online Workbook powered by Quia Books.

6.  No food in class. Only drinks with a secure lid are allowed.  No chewing gum or mint.  Good posture, no slouching or putting feet on chair/desk  Do NOT use laptop computers.  Do NOT use your iPads or other tablets.  Take corrections positively.  No talking on the side. (Pay attention to the instructor and other students when they are speaking.)  Silence your cell phone. NO texting.  Speak Chinese whenever you can.  When you hand in something to the teacher, please use both hands.  Always address your teacher by “nín” (the polite form of “you”) 2. C OURSE O VERVIEW ( C LASS E TIQUETTES )

7. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: We take it VERY seriously. Don’t get answers to your homework questions from anyone. Don’t share any work of your own with anyone. If you give your homework to anyone for them to copy, you are against the codes of academic integrity. 2. C OURSE O VERVIEW ( POLICY / RULES )

8. Are you ready for the challenge? Let’s begin from today!

9. 3. Pīnyīn Primer I Tones (Shēngdiào) 4+1 m ā má m ǎ mà (Mother) (hemp) (horse) (scold)

10. tāng táng tǎng tàng soup candy lying hot

11. kànshū kǎnshù

12. Syllable structure hǎo (adj. good) Initial (optional) Final (ao) Tone

13. Tip! Whenever you memorize/learn a new word in Chinese, you have to memorize/include the tone mark as an integral part of the pīnyīn

14. W HAT IS P INYIN ANYWAY ? Well, first let me say what Pinyin is NOT: No Chinese people write in Pinyin. One is either able to write in CHARACTERS or otherwise ILLITERATE. So Pinyin is NOT the writing system for Chinese  But we have to use Pinyin to help you with your pronunciation when you first start to learn the language.  Pinyin is also the easiest way of typing Chinese on a computer.  So study pinyin carefully to get the sounds right, but write only characters.

15. Simple Initials The easier ones (similar to English): b p m f d t n l g k h

16. Simple Initials The difficult ones: j q x z c s zh ch sh r

17. Simple finals a o e i u ü

18. Can you put them together? bpmfdtnlgkh abapamafadatanalagakaha obopomofo edetenelegekehe ibipimiditinili ubupumufudutunulugukuHu ünülü …and this times 4 tones, theoretically, and that would be … how many?

19. Z, C, S za zu ze ca cu ce sa su se

20. ZH, CH, SH, R zha zhu zhe cha chu che sha shu she ru re

21. E le te ne he zhe ge ke de re se ce che she ze

22. ü lü nü

23. C OMPOUND FINALS ( PART 1) 1. pai pei pao ou 2. an en ang eng ong

24. AI Taikaipailai Zaicaisai Zhaichaishai

25. EI Bei leineimei Zheisheizei

26. AO Bao nao lao hao kao Zao cao sao Zhao chao shao rao

27. OU Dou lou toukoumou Zoucousou Zhou chou shou rou

28. AN Dan gan mannanlanhan Zan can san Zhan chanshanran

29. ANG Dang gang mangnanghang Zang cang sang Zhang changshangrang

30. AN VS ANG Dan dang Zhanzhang Lanlang Cancang Hanhang Sansang Ranrang

31. EN Ben gen menhen Zen cen sen Zhen chenshenren

32. ENG Beng geng mengheng Zeng ceng seng Zheng chengshengreng

33. ONG dong gong longhong Zong cong song Zhong chongrong

34. EN VS ENG VS ONG Gengenggong (N/A)dengdong Zhenzhengzhong Cencengcong Benbeng(N/A) You may notice some UNAVAILABLE combinations, i.e. some combinations are not a Mandarin Chinese sound, e.g. den, bong

35. T ONE M ARKS  Tone marks should be placed on the main vowel, and the tip of the tone mark should point to center of the top of the letter.  You CANNOT put the tone mark vaguely above the syllable.  Can you put tones on the following syllables? 1. bai bei bao dou 2. zhan cen fang teng gong

36. MORE FOR TOMORROW What is this? Zhè shì shénme? I don’t understand. Wǒ bù dǒng. How do you say ”…. (e.g. Student Zhōngwén zěnme shuō ? student)” in Chinese? Please say it one more time? Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn. What does “…e.g. lǎoshī”mean? “Lǎoshī” shì shénme yìsi? Please give/tell me… Qǐng gěi / gàosu wǒ … May I ask… Qǐng wèn… Thank you/You’re welcome.A: Xièxie! B: bié kèqi (bú kèqi, bú xiè)! Sorry./It’s all right.A: Duì buqǐ! B: Méi guānxi!

37. C HARACTER P RIMER I Debunking some of the common myths about Chinese characters: 1. Chinese characters are NOT pictures. So you write a character, instead of drawing one. 2. Chinese characters are learnable, as long as you break each of them into REUSABLE components.

38. C HARACTER P RIMER I What are radicals (bùshǒu )?  Characters are built with smaller building blocks  Some of the most common ones are bùshǒu  Many radicals have a pictorial origin, but the absolute majority of Chinese characters (some say about 70%) do not have a pictorial origin at all.

39. 10 useful bùshǒu 人 or 亻 rén

40. 口 kǒu

41. 日 rì

42. 月 yuè

43. 山 shān

44. 水 or 氵 shuǐ

45. 弓 gōng

46. 木 mù

47. 田 tián

48. 雨 yǔ

49. Useful expressions hǎo 好

50. zàijiàn 再见！