In this 7-week unit, we'll learn:
..... yep, it's going to be a busy 7 weeks!
- How to use Chinese only to operate in a classroom environment
- How to introduce friends and classmates to each other
- How to talk about things that belong to certain people (such as "my friend" or "his pen")
- How to ask someone if they have a pen
- The basic history and structure of Chinese characters, as well as some of the guidelines for writing the characters correctly
- A set of 15 different radicals (meaning-based parts) of characters that you can use to help figure out a character's meaning
- 53 new Chinese characters, and how to practice writing them on your own
- How to look up words in two different online dictionaries
..... yep, it's going to be a busy 7 weeks!
More Classroom Phrases |
an introduction to chinese characters
We'll start our study of the characters by learning some of the "radicals," or building blocks, that you will encounter within many of the characters we will learn this year.
While these won't always tell you the exact meaning of a character, they give you a hint to its meaning, and something you can use to remember the whole character. |
Unit 2 Radicals:
心 = heart 女 = woman 子 = child 口 = mouth 夕 = sunset 言 or 讠= speech 彳 = two people 人 or 亻 = person 氵 = water 宀 = roof 门 = door/gate 目 = eye 见 = to see 月 = moon |
Old Vocabulary, New Characters
Practice matching these characters to the phrases and words you already know from Unit 1!
Are You a Student? |
Pinyin Transcript:
Gāo Xiǎolè: Nǐ shì xuéshēng ma? Wáng Xuě: Shì, wǒ shì xuéshēng. Nǐ ne? Nǐ shì lǎoshī ma? Gāo Xiǎolè:Wǒ bú shì lǎoshī. Wǒ yě shì xuéshēng. Wǒ bú rènshi nǐ. Nǐ jiào shénme mingzi? Wáng Xuě: Wǒ jiào Wáng Xuě. Nǐ ne? Gāo Xiǎolè:Wǒ jiào Gāo Xiǎolè. Wáng Xuě: Nǐ hǎo, Gāo Xiǎolè. Hěn gāoxìng rènshi nǐ. Gāo Xiǎolè: Rènshi nǐ, wǒ yě hěn gāoxìng. Language Points: Subject + Verb + Object + 吗?
Verb/ 不 Verb
Subject + 不 + Verb + Object
Subject + 也 + Verb + Object
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Characters Transcript:
Gāo Xiǎolè: 你是学生吗? Wáng Xuě: 是,我是学生。你呢?你是老师吗? Gāo Xiǎolè: 我不是老师,我也是学生。我不认识你。你叫什么名字? Wáng Xuě: 我叫Wáng Xuě.你呢? Gāo Xiǎolè: 我叫Gāo Xiǎolè。 Wáng Xuě: 你好,Gāo Xiǎolè。很高兴认识你。 Gāo Xiǎolè: 认识你,我也很高兴。 |
Do You Know My Friend? |
Pinyin Transcript:
Hán Méiméi: Nǐ rènshi Nán ma? Tā shì wǒ tóngxué. Lǐ Léi: Bú rènshi. Hán Méiméi: Nán, zhè shì wǒ de péngyou, Lǐ Léi. Nán: Nǐ hǎo. Lǐ Léi: Rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng. Language Points: Subject + 是 + person + 的 + noun
这是/那是....
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Characters Transcript:
Hán Méiméi: 你认识Nán吗?她是我同学。 Lǐ Léi: 不认识。 Hán Méiméi: Nán, 这是我的朋友,Lǐ Léi。 Nán: 你好。 Lǐ Léi: 认识你很高兴。 |
Do You Have a Pen? |
Transcript:
你有笔吗? 有。 你有笔吗? 没有。 |
Language Points:
Subject + 有 + thing(s)
Subject + 没有 + thing(s)
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