Chinese Characters (video 1 and video 2)

你好/Hello,

   Last week laoshi asked us to study the video about Chinese Characters. There are 4 videos in total. The videos provide me with the basic understanding and knowledge on how to form words by combining the characters. Thanks to the videos, I can increase my vocabulary because learning by watching the video is actually fun for me. I can pause the video anytime when I need more time to understand the video or when I want to jot down the information contains in the video. And here is the review on what I have learnt on the videos:

Video 1 :

• Chinese characters evolved from earlier forms of hieroglyphs.
• Today, we can still find some Chinese characters look like their ancestor.

• There are tens of thousands characters in Chinese. Only 3000 to 4000 are needed in daily life.
• Chinese characters have meanings but most of them are not words.
• All Chinese characters are monosyllabic.
• Only about 1200 possible syllable in modern Chinese.
• So many homophones cause a lot of confusion in spoken Chinese. 

Video 2 :

New vocabulary week 3

Week 3 (di san ge xingqi) 

• ·       Xuexi 学习 - learn
• ·       Lizi 例子 - example
• ·       Xia yi ge 下一个 - next
• ·       Mei youti 没问题 - no problem
• ·       Wei shenme 为什么 - why
• ·       Cheng ren 成人 - adult
• ·       Fu zeren 负责任 - take responsibility
• ·       Bu zhi dao 不知道 - don't know
• ·       普滕Puteng - Proton
• ·       宝腾 Bao teng - Proton
• ·       宝贝baobei  - baby ( my love one)

Class activity week 3

你好/Hello,
    Yesterday 老师/laoshi ask us to have a conversation with our class partner. We need to type what were instructed by our 老师/laoshi. However, we need to type it in Chinese characters so that we can be familiarize with the Chinese characters. For me, it is a fun class activity because we could learn/  学习 it in an interactive way.

Pinyin Practice

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     During the first week, we learnt about Pinyin during the lecture. Pinyin consist of three elements which are initial,tone and finals. We learnt it in the lecture and my laoshi /老师 also upload some videos for us so that we can improve our understanding when we watch the video. Apart from that, laoshi /老师 also instructed us to do some exercise about Pinyin on the initial,tone and finals so that we can practice more.

Here are the result of my exercise.Honestly, I admit that it is not that easy to score 30 and to have only maximum of 10 errors. I have to do it for many times in order to success and also ask some help on it.

Pinyin

 What is Pinyin?

• Pinyin is the Romanization of Chinese characters based on their pronunciation.
• Pinyin literally translated into "spell sound".
• In other words,spelling out Chinese phrases with letters from English alphabet.
• Consist of three elements : initial,tone,final.

Initial

• Initial always put at the beginning of syllable.
• can use only one initial in a syllable.
• each initial is made up by 1 or 2 letters.
• there are 23 initials in total in Chinese. (23 + 2 ), 2 of 0 initials.

Final

• the final is put after the initial.
• we can only use one final in a syllable.
• a final can be a syllable by itself without the initial or the tone.
• each final is made up of one to four letters.
• there are 35 finals in Chinese.

Tone

• the tone notification mark is always added above final (to be specific,the vowel in the final)
• can only use one tone in a syllable.
• sometimes no tone is used.
• there are 4 tones in Chinese : first tone,second tone, third tone, fourth tone.
• refer to pitch in syllable : low pitch, mid-low pitch, middle pitch, middle high pitch, high pitch. 

New vocabulary week 2

Week 2

Dianming 点名 : name

Ming bai 明白 : understand

Bu ming bai 不明白 : do not understand

Ting hen duo 听很多 : Listen a lot

Qu 去 : go with

Wo 我 : me

Ni 你 : you

Ta 他 : He

he shui喝水 : drink water

he guo zhi 果汁 : drink juice

Qing shuo yi shuo 请说一说。: say something

Ni jiehun le ma? : are you married

Dui bu qi对不起 : I am sorry

wo hai meiyou ting 我还没有听。: I have not heard yet

Wo hen e我很饿。: I'm very hungry

Wo  hen bao我很饱。: I'm very full

...... ma? : to ask question

 Ni ne? : how about you

Ni e ma? : are you hungry?

Guge xiansheng 谷歌先生 : Google

Youdi xiaojie 优蒂小姐 : Youtube

Ni hao 你好 : Hello

Wo shi ....我是 : my name

Zhe shi 这是 : this is

 kaishi开始 : start

Zhe shi shui? : who is this?

Ni jiao shenme  mingzi? : what is your name?

ren : human

suibian : simply do

wangji :forget

New Vocabulary for week 1

Week 1 

New Word shengci

Qing jin 请进 : please enter

Shenme 什么 : what

Zenmeyang 怎么样 : How about it

Weishenme 为什么 : why

Hen men很闷 : very boring

Qin ai de 亲爱的 : Dear

Hen you yong很有用 : very useful

Tiaozhan 挑战 : challenge

 Hen nan 很难 : difficult

Dao到 : to

Meiyou lai 没有来 : Did not come