Introduction to Chinese Tones and Characters at Bard High School Early College
In this course led by Shi Laoshi, students at Bard High School Early College delve into Chinese tones, initials, vowels, and character formation. They review the six ways to form Chinese characters, learn basic strokes, radicals, and counting. The focus is on mastering the four tones and understanding the intricacies of Chinese pronunciation and writing systems. Through illustrations and examples, students explore the nuances of sounds and tones in Mandarin.
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Introduction (Part III) CHI I-101 Shi Laoshi Bard High School Early College
Objectives Introduction to Chinese tones. Review the Initials and Vowels, together with the four tones Review and finish on the introduction to writing system The six ways to make Chinese characters (we focused on the first four ways). Basic strokes Radicals Learn to count from one to 10 and also how to write them. 2 Ling-Ling Shih,Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Review the six ways to form Chinese Characters Please use PPT 2 for the review Later we will also learn the radicals. The basic strokes and the importance of the stroke order. 3 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
LEARN FOUR TONES AND REVIEW ALL THE INITIALS AND FINALS 4 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Take ma for example, there are four tones in the sound ma Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Pinyin English Definition m mom; mother; Hemp a type of fabric) m m horse m To scold 5 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Let us randomly choose a sound ma and illustrate its four different tones 6 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
4 tones 7 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
1sttone 8 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
2ndtone 9 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
1st& 2ndtones http://www.youtube.com/user/sloppycheng# p/c/94A5E422FB99CDDD 10 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
3rdtones 11 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
4thTone 12 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Practice the 1st tone h x x n xi n k ng q Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Pinyin English Definition h x to breathe; x n xi n fresh (experience, food etc); k ng q air; atmosphere; 13 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Try to pronounce this sentence to practice your four tones mother rides a horse; the horse is slow; mother scolds the horse M ma q m m m n m ma m m , , m ma mother q m to ride a horse m n slow m to scold 14 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Learn to pronounce different pinyin combination with four different tones http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/pinyin chart.htm (pinyin combination chart 1) http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/pinyin chart2.htm (Pinyin combination chart 2) http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/pinyin chart3.htm (Pinyin combination chart 3) http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/pinyin chart4.htm (Pinyin combination chart 4) 15 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Archchinese.com: Free Internet resources for learning Chinese http://www.archchinese.com/ Key features include: Pinyin table Animate stroke order: The best one I recommend for character animation. 16 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Please use the following to learn the radicals and numbers http://www.archchinese.com/arch_chinese_radic als.html for how to write the radicals. You can also use http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character / to learn how to write radicals and numbers For dictionary and stroke order to look up any new word: http://www.archchinese.com/chinese_english_di ctionary.html 17 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Learn the basic strokes TB p.15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHB2dYy rZI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCnjfws 0XQ (This video helps you understand the Chinese character stroke order rules on TB: p 15. D) 18 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Learn to say and write 1 to 10 in Chinese! 1. another video on Counting from 1 to 10 in Chinese 2. Count from 1 to 10 in Chinese 19 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
y 20 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
r 21 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
sn 22 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
s 23 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
w 24 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
li 25 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
q 26 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
b 27 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
ji 28 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
sh 29 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
Conclusion on Introduction Our introduction to this class include the following: Pinyin (including four tones) Chinese Writing Systems Radicals Basic strokes Number 1 to 10 Common/classroom Expressions 30 Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College 9/16/2024
