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Introduction (Part I)

CHI I-

Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

(Shi Laoshi)

BHSEC

Learning Goals The Sound system The Writin g syste m Some useful expressi ons Internet resource s 2 02/03/ By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College

4 By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High S 02/03/ Topics (Intro. Part I)

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese

What is the difference between Ch. And Eng.?

Chinese Language and dialects.

Pinyin System: focus on Initials. (Textbook: p. 2-5)

Some Chinese expressions: Greetings and introduction (hand-out)

Internet resources/on-line language tools.

What is the difference?

Chine

se

Engli

sh

5

• Tonal?

language

• Indo-European

language Family

• Sino-Tibetan

Language Family

• Alphabetical

Writing

• Ideograms
  • Not a tonal

language

• (^) The earlies

Chinese scripts

found on

oracle bones

around in 1250

B.C.

• Old English –

th century –

th

century.

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7 By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High S 02/03/ What is Mandarin Chinese? What is it also known as in Mainland China, Taiwan or Southeast Asia?

Mandarin Chinese is the standard language used by Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is what we are learning in the class. Its pronunciation is based on the speech of Beijing.  (^) In mainland China: pǔtōnghuà ( 。。。 ) (literally translated “common language”); also Known as “ guó yǔ ” ( 。。 ) (meaning “national language”) (1.guó : country ; nation ; 2. yǔ : dialect ; language)  In Taiwan and other regions (such as Singapre and Malaysia: “ hàn yǔ ” ( 。。 ). (“the language spoken by Han people).

8 02/03/ What is Pinyin and Why Pinyin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= UfhlkL_LMo&feature=relmfu

Pinyin is a phonetic system for pronouncing Chinese character.

Pinyin (Pin= spell, yin= sound)

Unlike Western language, the characters do not always indicate how they are pronounced. For example,

That is why you need pinyin.By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College

10 02/03/ Pinyin is not English!!

“Zhang”

“Peng You”

“liu” ）“ jiu”

“cang” By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College

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21 initial consonants in Modern Standard

Chinese (not counting y & w):

http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/pinyin.htm By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih Bard High School Early College

13 By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High S 02/03/ Chinese Four Tones: http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Tones/Tones.htm The same syllable with different tones  different meaning, different character

14 02/03/ Let us randomly choose a sound “ma” and illustrate its four different tones By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School Early College

16 02/03/ Initials (Shēngmǔ)

A song on Initials http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r cw-q7Q1w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ AzioCGWdo&feature=relmfu (b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h,j,q,x,z,y,w)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih Bard High School Early College

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