Beginning Chinese I: Hello Y'all!

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. Survey Form • Please fill out the form and return it to your lǎoshī(teacher).

4. Greetings Nǐhǎo Nǐmenhǎo Lǎoshī hǎo Lǎoshī nínhǎo

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

6. 2. Course Overview (Class Etiquettes )  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”)

7. 2. Course Overview (policy/rules) 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.

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

9. 3. Pīnyīn Primer I Tones (Shēngdiào) 4+1 mā má mǎ mà (Mother) (hemp) (horse) (scold)

10. tāng táng tǎng candy soup tàng lying hot

11. kànshū kǎnshù

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

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. What is Pinyin 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. …and this times 4 tones, theoretically, and that would be … how many? Can you put them together?

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. Compound finals (part 1) 1. pai pei pao ou 2. an en ang eng ong

24. AI Tai kai pai lai Zai cai sai Zhai chai shai

25. EI Bei lei nei mei Zhei shei zei

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

27. OU Dou lou tou kou mou Zou cou sou Zhou chou shou rou

28. AN Dan gan man nan lan han Zan can san Zhan chan shan ran

29. ANG Dang gang mang nang hang Zang cang sang Zhang chang shang rang

30. AN vs ANG Dan dang Zhan zhang Lan lang Can cang Han hang San sang Ran rang

31. EN Ben gen men hen Zen cen sen Zhen chen shen ren

32. ENG Beng geng meng heng Zeng ceng seng Zheng cheng sheng reng

33. ONG dong gong long hong Zong cong song Zhong chong rong

34. EN vs ENG vs ONG Gen geng gong (N/A) deng dong Zhen zheng zhong Cen ceng cong Ben beng (N/A) You may notice some UNAVAILABLE combinations, i.e. some combinations are not a Mandarin Chinese sound, e.g. den, bong

35. Tone Marks • 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. Character Primer I Debunking some of the common myths about Chinese characters: • Chinese characters are NOT pictures. So you write a character, instead of drawing one. • Chinese characters are learnable, as long as you break each of them into REUSABLEcomponents.

38. Character Primer 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！