Chinese Pinyin Characters Introduction 42735 Shockley 8212012 Objective

Chinese Pinyin / Characters Introduction 42735 Shockley 8/21/2012

Objective: 1. Learn about the Chinese language 2. Become familiar with basic Chinese pronunciation 3. Know the six categories of Chinese Characters; 4. Know the Chinese Characters have evolved Throughout Chinese history.

Consonants & Vowels bpmf dtnl gkh jqx zh ch sh r z c s aoe iuü http: //kid. chinese. cn/rhymes/article/2011 -02/23/content_229524. htm http: //www. ctcfl. ox. ac. uk/Pinyin_Notes. htm#2. Consonants http: //www. yoyochinese. com/Chinese_pinyin_cheat_sheet. jpg

Read with me http: //www. yes-chinese. com/pinyin/

Pinyin & Zhuyin

Tones • Four tones First tone (¯) Second tone (´) Third tone (ˇ) Fourth tone (ˋ) • Neutral tone No tone marks on the neutral tone 漢語拼音教學動畫大全 http: //blog. huayuworld. org/school 17/12342/2009/04/08/27586 tone: b: http: //blog. huayuworld. org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_b. swf a: http: //blog. huayuworld. org/gallery/9554/pinyin_00_a. swf

Pinyin practice • Tone http: //pinyinpractice. com/tones. htm • Initial http: //pinyinpractice. com/initials. htm • Final http: //pinyinpractice. com/finals. htm • Quiz http: //pinyinpractice. com/selfquiz. htm

Traditional Chinese 漢字 汉字 Simplified Chinese

Six Categories (六� / 六書). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pictograms 象形字 Ideograms 指事字 Ideogrammic compounds 会意字 Phono-semantic compounds 形声字 Transformed cognates 转注字 Rebus 假借字

Pictograms 象形字 Characters in this class derive from pictures 日 rì for "sun", 月 yuè for "moon“, 木 mù for "tree”,

Ideograms 指事字 Characters either modify existing pictographs iconically, or are direct iconic illustrations 上 shàng "up“ 下 xià "down”

Ideogrammic compounds 会意字 Translated literally as logical aggregates or associative compounds, these characters symbolically combine pictograms or ideograms to create a third character. 木 mù "tree” 林 lín "grove", 森 sēn "forest".

Phono-semantic compounds 形声字 The phono-semantic compounds, also called semantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds. pictographic phonetic 河 hé “river”, 氵shuǐ 可 kě 湖 hú "lake", 氵shuǐ 胡 hú

Transformed cognates 转注字 The mutual-explanatory characters typically are a pair or a group of characters, that share the same radical and have similar meaning. 考 kǎo "to verify" 老 lǎo "old" were once the same character, meaning "elderly person"

Rebus 假借字 Also called borrowings or phonetic loan characters, this category covers cases where an existing character is used to represent an unrelated word with similar pronunciation; sometimes the old meaning is then lost completely. 自 zì, "oneself“, original meaning of "nose” 萬 wàn, "ten thousand“, originally meant "scorpion”

Basic strokes

Stroke order

Chinese Characters • Play the video ~5 min (中国文化欣赏_汉字)

Two Chinese radical charts

Group work: 1. make 5 groups 2. Each group take one column 3. Group discussing then sharing

Self practice_1: 1. Matching the words 2. Exchange the paper to score

Self practice_2: 1. Matching the words 2. Exchange the paper to score

Let us practice: 衣魚母子車

Classroom Expressions_1 1. Nǐ hǎo! How are you? How do you do? 2. Lǎoshī hǎo! How are you, teacher? 3. Shàng kè. Let’s begin the class. 4. Xià kè. The class is over. 5. Dǎ kāi shū. Open the book. 6. Wǒ shuō, nǐmen tīng. I’ll speak, you listen. 7. Kàn hēibǎn. Look at the blackboard.

Classroom Expressions_2 8. Duì bú duì? Is it right? 9. Duì! Right! Correct! 10. Hěn hǎo! Very good! 11. Qǐng gēn wǒ shuō. Please repeat after me. 12. Zài shuō yí biàn. Say it again. 13. Dǒng bu dǒng? Do you understand? 14. Dǒng le. Yes, I/we understand; I/we do. 15. Zàijiàn! Good-bye!

Survival Expressions 1. Duìbùqǐ! Sorry! 2. Qǐng wèn. . . Excuse me. . . ; May I ask. . . 3. Xièxie! Thanks! 4. Zhè shì shénme? What is this? 5. Wǒ bù dǒng. I don’t understand. 6. Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn. Please say it one more time. 7. “…” Zhōngwén zěnme shuō? How do you say “…” in Chinese? 8. “…” shì shénme yìsi? What does “…” mean? 9. Qǐng nǐ gěi wǒ. . . Please give me. . . 10. Qǐng nǐ gàosù wǒ. . . Please tell me. . .

Supplement • Links for Integrated Chinese Level 1: Introduction http: //eall. hawaii. edu/yao/ICUsers/ic 1 Int. htm • 中文听说读写: http: //www. language. berkeley. edu/ic/ I / C conversation, test & lots more. • Tools: http: //www. chinese-tools. com/tools/ • 漢典(汉典)： http: //www. zdic. net/ • 全民大词典：http: //www. yeschinese. com/v 2010/dict_ce/search. do

21 Century Tech • • Your e. Mail address Web accessing for the assignment Listening: Add voice clip into the handout Speaking: You record the voice clip to me Reading: Add voice clip into the handout Writing: Type汉字 into computer Internet sharing

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