Lesson 2- ni mang ma?

忙  máng  busy

都  dōu  both, all

不  bù  not, no

男       nán  male

朋友  péngyou  friend

哥哥  gēge  elder brother 

要  yào  want

咖啡  kāfēi  coffee

弟弟  dìdi  younger brother

喝  hē  to drink

你好吗？- ni hao ma (how are you?)

我很好。- wo hen hao ( I'm very good)

还好- hai hao (okay)

你忙máng吗？- ni mang ma (are you busy?)

我很忙。- wo hen mang (I'm very busy)

他们忙吗？- tamen mang ma ( is they busy?)

他们很忙 - tamen hen mang ( they are very busy)

你哥哥忙吗？- ni gege mang ma ( is your older brother busy?)

我哥哥很忙。- wo gege hen mang (my elder brother is very busy)

Lesson 1 - Greeting in different time

 Greeting in different time :

Morning ( zaoshang 早上 )

• zaoshanghao 早上好 - good morning (early  morning)
• zaoan 早安 - good morning (morning peace)
• shangwuhao 上午好 - good morning (late in the morning)

At noon (zhongwu 中午)

• zhongwuhao 中午好 - good afternoon (zhongwu-middle)

 Afternoon (xiawu 下午)

• xiawuhao 下午好 - good afternoon
• wu an 午安 - good afternoon

Evening ( wanshang 晚上)

• wanshanghao 晚上好 - good evening
• wanan 晚安- good night 

New words :

老师  Lǎoshī (teacher)

同学  Tóngxué (classmate)

再见  Zàijiàn (goodbye)

爸爸  Bàba (father)

妈妈  Māma(mother)

父母  Fumu (parents)

我  Wǒ (I)

你  Nǐ (you)

他/ 她  Tā (he)

我们  Wǒmen (we)

你们  Nǐmen (you guys)

他们/她们 Tāmen (they)

早上

Lesson 3-Nationality (Ta shi na guo ren)

Ta shi na guo ren (asking nationality)

•医生奶奶 Nǎinai (grandmother)

•外婆 wàipó (grandmother)

•医生 yīshēng (doctor)

•老师 lǎoshī  (teacher)

•外语老师 wàiyǔ lǎoshī (foreign language teacher)

 记者 jizhe (reporter)

1)zhe shi shui 这是谁 - who is this?

   zhe shi 这是 ........ - this is ........ (to introduce people)

2) Na shi shui 那是谁? - who is that?

   Na shi  那是....。- that is ....

3)na guo ren 哪国人? (which country)

4) ta shi na guo ren 他是哪国人 - what is his nationality? (eg : Malaysia)
         : 中国Zhōngguó (China)
         : 马来西亚Mǎláixīyà (Malaysia)

Lesson 2 -ni yao...ma?

ni hao /Hello

句子juzi

1.  ....吗？.... ma?

2.  你好吗？Nǐ hǎo ma? (hen hao, 不bu shi hen hao)

3.  Ni shi Siti ma? (shi, bu shi)

4.  Zhe shi ni de ma? (shi, bu shi)

5.  Chi le ma? (have you eaten) (chi le, 还没有hai meiyou )

6.  Ta shuai ma? (is he handsome)  (hen shuai, bu shuai)

7.  Ta piaoliang ma (is she beautiful)?      (hen piaoliang, bu piaoliang)

8.  Ta ke’ai ma? (is she cute)   

 你要.....吗？( ni yao ..... ma?)(do you want)

你要不要.....? (ni yao bu yao....?)

Verb

吃chi (eat)	喝he (drink)	去qu(go)	来lai (come)
睡觉shuijiao (sleep)	走 zou (walk)	跑 pao (run)	买 mai (buy)
看kan (watch)	听ting (listen)	玩wan (play)	跳tiao (jump)
讲Jiang3 (speak)	学习xuexi (learn)	读 du (read)	唱 Chang4 (sing)
跳舞 tioawu (dance)	跟gen (follow)	用 Yong4 (use)	研究 yanjiu (research)

f     你要咖Kā啡fēi吗？(ni yao kafei ma?)

       我要咖啡。(wo yao kafei) - I want coffee

       我要喝hē咖啡 (wo yao he kafei) I want to drink coffee.

        我要喝hē 茶chá (wo yao he cha) - cha: teh tarik

         我要吃chī饭fàn (wo yao chi fan) - chi fan: to eat

          我要来lái。(wo yao lai)- lai: to come

   我要去qu (wo yao qu) - qu: go

Lesson 1-Greetings (Ni/Nin Hao)

你好/Hello,

Last week I learnt about greetings and what are the common reply to our greetings. 

And,here is some of the commonly use answers for greetings:

• 你好！Nǐhǎo ( how are you - commonly use)
• 您好nin hao ( how are you - formally use when greet someone older and meet new people)

Xiǎojie， Nin hǎo ！( how are you for female)

Nin hǎo，xiānsheng ( how are you for male)

What can we use to reply the greetings:

1. 我很好，谢谢，你呢 ? Wǒ hěn hǎo, Xièxie，nǐ ne?

         ( I'm fine, thank you, how about you? ) 

*when the people we greet ask us on how are we doing, we can reply this:

•         也很好。Yě hěn hǎo. ( I'm also fine)

     2. 马马虎虎。Mǎma hūhu. ( so-so)

    3.不是很好。Bú shì hěn hǎo ( not very good) 

*in this case, we can ask "why"/ 为什么？Wèi shénme?

# the usual answer is because of headache :

我头疼。Wǒ tou téng/tong

* and we can reply this:

好好照顾自己hao hao zhaogu ziji (Take good care of yourself)

Chinese Character Stroke Practice Sheets

你好/hello,
 
    Last week we have to do some exercises on stroke order. So, here is some of my exercises:

Chinese Characters (video 3 and video 4)

你好/Hello,

   This is the continuation from last blog that I wrote since I think it will be too lengthy to combine all of 4 videos' summary together. So, here is the review for the video 3 and 4:

Video 3 :

Video 4:

• There are 4 method of Chinese characters:

1. pictographic characters - earliest Chinese characters, based on picture.(4%)
2. indicative character - is made of stroke.

     3.associative characters - combine existing characters to give new meaning. (14% of indicative +                                                  associative)

     4.pictophonetic method - make sense of characters, adding few radicals. (80%)

• Finding the radical -left, top, outside,right, bottom, inside.
• Best way to learn Chinese characters :

1. learn to differentiate basic components
2. use the pictophonetic method to learn series of related characters.
3. study easily confused characters together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfX1V6DMYM (video 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZD1EpHguY (video 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FNvW19GbA (video 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvebdr0sNao (video 4)