Mandarin Chinese.ppt
Mandarin Chinese,lesson one Pinyin,20/01/2012,1,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,In this lesson you will learn.pinyin greetings a few simple Chinese characters,lesson objectives,20/01/2012,2,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,What is pinyin?,Pinyin was adopted in the peoples Republic of China in 1958.Pinyin uses alphabetic to assist the pronunciation of Mandarin.Pinyin has initials,finals and tone marks.e.g.png,20/01/2012,3,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,Initials,20/01/2012,4,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,Finals,20/01/2012,5,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,Tone marks,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,6,Four tone marks:a a a a,Note:A tone mark needs to be on top of a vowel letter.When a final has two or more vowels,the tone mark should be placed above the vowel following the sequence aoeiu,e.g.ho.However,for iu and ui,tone marks have to be over the last vowel,e.g.hu and xi.,Pinyin Exercise,20/01/2012,7,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,Task 1 Read the following pinyin,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,8,1.w w w w2.y y y y3.b b b b4.xi xi xi xi 5.ch ch ch ch 6.mn mn mn mn 7.hu hu hu hu8.png png png png,Note:When j,q,x and y are used with,e,an and n,the two dots over are omitted as in the second line above.,Task 2 Sound discrimination,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,9,bng png 2.n n Jing ji 4.ch q 5.nn nun 6.y xi s sh 8.w r 9.y yn,Task 3 Read the following sentences.,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,10,1.W xhuan ch y。2.N sh losh ma？3.T de gge miyu gngzu。4.Wmen du sh zhnggurn。5.Xngqtin w h pngyou q gngyun。,Greetings,HelloN ho How are you?N ho ma？I am very well,and you?W hn ho，n ne？I am very well,too.W y hn ho。,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,11,Note:When two or more third tones used together,we need to change the first third tone or the first a few third tones to second tone in speaking.,Chinese characters,Copy the characters in the middle columnSun 日 rMoon 月 yuMountain 山 shnStone 石 shYou 你 nI/me 我 w,20/01/2012,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,12,Note:Chinese characters are widely used in China on daily basis,and they are the written forms of Chinese language.,Today we have learned:,pinyin including initials,finals and tone marks;greeting in Chinese;six Chinese characters.,20/01/2012,13,Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9aston.ac.uk,
