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Welcome To Basic Mandarin I: Day One

This document provides an introduction to basic Mandarin Chinese for beginners. It covers greetings such as "Ni hao" and responses, pronunciation of numbers and a Chinese poem, information on tones and pinyin, and exercises for students to practice greetings and pronouns. Additional resources are listed and basic conversational phrases are introduced.

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Welcome To Basic Mandarin I: Day One

This document provides an introduction to basic Mandarin Chinese for beginners. It covers greetings such as "Ni hao" and responses, pronunciation of numbers and a Chinese poem, information on tones and pinyin, and exercises for students to practice greetings and pronouns. Additional resources are listed and basic conversational phrases are introduced.

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Welcome to Basic Mandarin I

Day One

欢 迎 学 习 基 本 普 通 话 (一)
huān yíng xué xí jī bĕn pŭ tōnghuà (yī)
第 一 天
dī yī tiān
Warm Up (rèshēn) 热身

Numbers (shùzì) 数字 :

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
líng yī èr sān sì wǔ liù qī bā jiǔ shí
令 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十
Chinese Poem (gǔshī) 古诗

6,7 pagodas standing


on hilltops

See a village with


4,5 houses

8,9,10 twigs of
flowers

Walk 1,2,3 miles


Useful/Additional Resources
• Chinese Strokes Order (iOS)
• Pleco Chinese Dictionary App (Android & iOS)
more features for Android like finger-writing
capability. For iOS users, add a Chinese
(Simplified) keyboard—Pinyin QWERTY and
Handwriting.
• http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation
• http://www.scoop.it/t/learn-mandarin-ɑchinese
(about Chinese life and culture)
Listen & follow

A: 你好 Nǐ hăo! (Hello!)
B: 你好 Nǐ hăo! (Hi!)

New Words
1. 你 nǐ pronoun
(singular) you
2. 好 hăo adjective
good, fine
Listen & follow

A: 您好 Nǐn hăo! (Hello!)


B: 你们好 Nǐmen hăo! (Hi!)

New Words
1. 您 nǐn pron.
(polite) you
2. 你们 nǐmen pron.
(plural) you
Listen & follow

A: 对不起 Duìbuqǐ (I’m sorry!)


B. 没关系 Méi guānxi (That’s OK!)

New Words
1. 对不起 duìbuqǐ v.
to be sorry
2. 没关系 méi guānxi
that’s OK, it doesn’t matter
The Greeting “ 你好” (nǐ hǎo)
1) It is an everyday greeting and is used at any time,
on any occasion and by a person of any social
status. The reply should also be “ 你好” .
2) Addressing to more than one person, use
“ 你们” (nǐmen).
3) To show respect to a person with higher status
than the speaker, use “ 您” (nǐn, you), 。
你好 (common hello)
您好 (hello with high regard)
The Greeting “ 你好吗 ?”
It is an everyday greeting and is usually used
between acquaintances. The reply would be “ 我
很好” for affirmative or “ 不好” (bù, not) for
negative responses ( 不好 can only be used if
friends and not with strangers).

你好吗 ? —— 我很好 / —— 我不好


Conversation 会活 (huì huǒ)
大卫 – Dàwèi (prop. n.) David
玛丽 – Màlì (prop.n.) Mary
王兰 – Wáng Lán (prop. n.) Lan Wang
刘京 – Liú Jīng (prop. n.) Jing Liu
你 / 您 – nǐ/nǐn (sing. pron.) you
很 – hěn (adv.) very
好 – hǎo (adj.) good
吗 – ma [a question word for yes/no questions]
我 – wǒ (sing. pron.) I, me
也 – yě (adv.) also
Initials and Finals of Chinese Pinyin
汉语拼音的声母和韵母

声母 Initials (1) 韵母 Finals (1)


b p m f i (yi) u (wu) ü (yü) er
d t n l a ia (ya) ua (wa)
g k h o uo (wo)
j q x e ie (ye) üe (yue)
zh ch sh r ai uai (wai)
Note: ei uei (ui) (wei)
Finals beginning with “i” or “u”, ao iao (yao)
when not preceded by any initials,
should be changed respectively
into “y” and “w”, eg. ie→ye,
uo→wo.
Tones (Four Tones)
汉语的声调（四声）
• There are four basic tones in Chinese, respectively
called the 1st tone, the 2nd tone, the 3rd tone, and the
4th tone. They make a difference in meaning.

mā má mǎ mà
妈 麻 马 骂
mother fibrous crops horse to scold
Practice (líanxí) 联系

Read the syllables aloud and pay


attention to the tones.
ā á ǎ à
ō ó ǒ ò
ē é ě è
ī í ǐ ì Note:
ū ú ǔ ù When the finals “i” and “u”
form syllables by themselves,
ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ they are preceded (or
pronounced) respectively with
“y” and “w”, eg. i→yi, u→wu.
Remember (jìzhu) 记住
Chinese Syllables 汉语的音节
A Chinese syllable is usually made up of an initial, a final
and a tone. Generally speaking, one Chinese character
corresponds to one syllable. A Chinese syllable can have no
initial, but must have a final and a tone.

汉语的音节 Syllable 声母 Initial 韵母 Final 声调 Tone

māo ( 猫， cat) m ao ˉ
yú ( 鱼， fish) ü ′
jiě ( 姐， big j ie ˇ
sister)
èr ( 二， two) er ‵
yī 衣 bǐ 笔 jī 鸡

wǔ 五 māo 猫 qī 七

yú 鱼 dǎo 岛 xíe 鞋

ěr 耳 huā 花 xuě 雪
kāfēi 咖啡 kělè 可乐 kǎoyā 烤鸭

huǒguō 火锅 dìtú 地图 fēijī 飞机

máobǐ ěrjī
毛笔 耳机
Tone Sandhi: 3rd tone + 3rd tone
两个三声音节的连读变调
When two 3rd tone syllables are read in
sequnece, the first syllable turns into the 2nd
tone, i.e., the 3+3 sequence becomes 2+3 one.
However, when put in the written form, the
original tone is kept.
∨ ﹢ ∨ ﹦ ／ ﹢ ∨
nǐ ( 你 ) hǎo ( 好 ) ní hǎo
kě ( 可 ) yǐ ( 以 ) ké yǐ
xiǎo ( 小 ) jiě ( 姐 ) xiáo jiě
Conversation 会活 (huì huǒ)
你们 – nǐmen (plu. pron.) you
都 – dōu (adv.) all
来 – lái (v.) to come
他们 – tāmen (plu. pron.) them
The Pronouns
1st Person Pronoun 2nd Person Pronoun 3rd Person Pronoun

我 wǒ 你 nǐ 他 tā
我们 wǒmen 您 nǐn 她 tā
你们 nǐmen 它 tā
您们 nǐnmen 他们 tāmen
她们 tāmen
它们 tāmen
Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)

A ：你好！
你好
B ： ___________!
A ：他好吗？
他很好
B ： ___________ 。
Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)

A & B ：您好！
你们好
C ： __________!
Exercises 练习 (liàn xí)
玛丽：你好吗？
很好 。你呢 / 你好
王兰： ________
吗？
你呢 (nǐ ne, how about you)
Note:我也很好
玛丽： ________
他很好 。刘京好吗？
都很好
王兰： ________ ，我们 ______ 。
More greetings

• 你好 → 你们，您，他 / 她 / 它，大家，老师
nǐhăo nǐmén nǐn tā/tā/tā dàjiā lǎoshī

• 我很好 → 我们，都
wǒhěnhăo wǒmén dōu

• 你的 名字 叫 什么？ (What’s your name?)


nǐ de míngzì jiào shénme

• 我的 名字 叫 莎丽。 (My name is Sally.)


wǒ de míngzì jiào shālí

• 认识 你 很 高兴。 (Very nice to meet you.)


rènshi nǐ hěn gāoxìng

• 欢迎 光临。 (Welcome.)
Other words to know.

• 早 上 好， 下午好， 晚 上 好，
晚安
zǎoshànghăo xiàwǔhǎo wǎnshànghǎo wǎn’ān

Good morning Good afternoon Good evening Good night

• 请坐下 qǐng zuò xià (Please sit down)


• 好好听 hǎo hao tīng (Listen carefully)
• 上课， 下课
shàngkè xiàkè

Class begins Class is over

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