How to input Pinyin tones When you want

How to input Pinyin tones • When you want to type Pinyin with tones like Wǒ shì xuésheng. Wǒ xiànzài xuéxí Hànyǔ, • You can use Pinyin Builder. To download and install it in your computer, go to http: //learningchineseonline. net/tools/pinyin. zip Save the zip file and run it. You can install it in your home computer or in the lab. The lab version will be purged from time to time. But it is easy to install it again.

Lesson 15 -2 Practical Chinese Reader

Objectives of this lesson: • Learn to talk about our department and your study of Chinese • Learn to respond to compliment • Learn the numbers and measure words in Chinese

Write Pinyin for the words: • • • Chinese department Chinese teacher to teach Spoken language Grammar Chinese characters Library Reading room Chinese magazines Chinese dictionaries

Link the characters with English: • • • Chinese department Chinese teacher to teach Spoken language Grammar Chinese characters Library Reading room Chinese magazines Chinese dictionaries 圖書館 教 中文系 中文雜誌 中國老師 語法 漢語詞典 閱覽室 口語 漢字

Be paired. Ask and answer the following questions. a. Zhōngwén xì yǒu duōshǎo (how many) xuésheng? b. Zhōngwén xì yǒu jǐ ge (how many) Zhōngguó lǎoshī? c. Xiè lǎoshī jiāo nǐmen shénme? d. Nǐmen zài Zhōngwén xì xuéxí shénme? e. Nǐmen xuéxiào yǒu túshūguǎn hé yuèlǎnshì ma? f. Túshūguǎn yǒu méiyǒu Zhōngwén shū, Zhōngwén bà o? Hànyǔ cídiǎn ne? g. Nǐmen cháng zài túshūguǎn kàn shū, xuéxí ma?

Retelling • Try to retell the passage using your own words. The following key words may help you: • 這是…… • 中文系有…… • ……在 這兒…… • 我們學校有…… • 圖書館有…… • …. . 常在……

More new words for Lesson 15 • • • 還 hái in addition, still 不敢當 bù gǎndāng (I) don't really deserve (it) 互相 hùxiāng mutually, each other 新 xīn new 畫報 huàbào magazine (with photos and pictures)

還hái: - 'in addtion to' • 我 有 一 本 漢語 詞典 � 還有 很 多 中文 書 。 • Wǒ yǒu yī běn Hànyǔ cídiǎn, hái yǒu hěn duō Zhōngwén shū. • I have a Chinese dictionary. (In addition to that dictionary, I ) also have many Chinese books. • • • 他 學習 法語 � 還 學習 漢語 和 日語 。 Tā xuéxí Fǎyǔ, hái xuéxí Hànyǔ héRìyǔ. He studies French. (In addtiong to French, he) also studies Chinese and Japanese.

Try to say: • He has an elder brother. He has two more younger sisters. • Our department has Chinese teachers. (In addition to Chinese teachers, we) also have Japanese teachers.

• He has an elder brother. He has two more younger sisters. • 他有一個哥哥，還有兩個妹妹(mèimei)。 • Our department has Chinese teachers. (In addition to Chinese teachers, we) also have Japanese teachers. • 我們系有中文老師，還有日文老師。

不敢當bù gǎndāng • This is an expression used to respond to a compliment. • Example: – 你是我的老師。 – 不敢當。

互相hùxiāng • mutually, each other • Example – 我們互相學習 – We learn from each other.

新xīn - 'new' • Try to say: – a new book, – a new dictionary, – a new teacher, – a new doctor, – a new school, – a new library, – a new reading room

Homework • Do your homework 2 Save this file, use Microsoft Word to complete it. Email it to csulchn 102@gmail. com.