Learning Chinese for Beginners_Lesson 7_How are you ? and what is your name?

In this lesson, I would like to give you guys more vocabulary this time, the vedio I am using is from World Learner Chinese, they have 4 podcast in itune and 3 vedio on youtube now but most of the learning materials are quite old like about 3 years ago.  I like thier sites especially about the forum but their last post is 3 years ago so that means basically no body is using that site anymore. 


First Vedio : It's a little bit long, but most of the time spend on explaining the vocabulary. 

Second Vedio: how you said that what is your name in Chinese?

Question:

1. How to say Good Morning in Chinese?

2. How to say Good afternoon in Chinese?

3. How to say Good night in Chinese?

4. How to say " what's your name in Chinese" and how to answer it?

5. How to say " Nice to meet you in Chinese"

6.  Is there another way to say Good Morning in chinese?

Anwers all these 6 questions in the comment I can offer you 15 min free skype Chinese lesson.  I can check your pronunce and practice the conversation or basically you can ask any questions related to learning Chinese, please take chances and hurry up answer all the questions. 

Learning Chinese for begginer_Lesson 6 Numbers

I assume that everyone can tell what learning strategies that I am using is that in each lesson I will bring a different tool from different sites or companies or materials for you guys.  I will find all those currently produce learning chinese language companies, and you guys decide which one is best for you.  So far I havent got any money from any websites that I introduced.  I dont know in the future I will want to earn money from this blog I am wrting or not, but so far is not. 


Today, I want to introudce a website that I found it from iTune U.  If you have ipad or iphone, please download their course, its free. Its called Beginners' Chinese-Audio from The Open University.  In each audio, it's not long, between 1min-3min.  In each lesson, they all have transcript. I think that is really important for a self chinese learner. I am also welcome EVERYONE asking me questions regarding any of the webites that I already introduced, you have questions when you read their transcript or you dont understand how their explaination, please don't be hesitate to ask me. 


The Open University has lots of free courses, its worth to have a look, and in their language courses, there are other languages to learn instead of just chinese learning.  The Open University is from UK, and its mainly for distance learning and adult education.  Please do use this free resource online.

Unforunately, they don't put their audio on thier website so I can't show you the sample of learning Numbers in Chinese, so I will use youtube instead, Leaning Numbers from one to ten.

1. I want each of you to memorize it and speak very fluently (means talking in a fast speed without making any mistakes).

2. I also want you guys to memorize the pinyin from one to ten.

 

Learning Chinese for Begginer_Lesson 5_GreetingsII

So far I still open the first 5 people for a free skype chinese lesson, each lesson for 15 min, if you are a self learner and want to find a native Chinese speaker to correct your pronounciation. So please take the chance.


In today's lesson, I want to teach everyone how to introduce themselves, please listen to this  MP3 below:

Greetings II

(This Podcast is from Chineselearnonline Lesson 2 Greetings, please open their page for more learning material and also you can download their free podcast from iphone, it's free)

Every lesson, they have Vocabulary, Complete, Notes, Hints and Tips for you to learn. 

Vocabulary :

i.e. nǐ hǎo
hǎo
nǐ hǎo ma?
wǒ hěn hǎo
nǐ
wǒ
tā
tā hǎo ma?
tā hěn hǎo


Complete :

This is a very good material for you guys to learn.  Every lesson they have 3 kinds of transcript, 1 pinyin transcript, 2 simplified Chinese transcript, 3 Traditional transcript. 

I want everybody to listen to this Podcast without transcript, and then the second time listen to this Podcast with the pinyin transcript, if you want to challenge yourself you can choose either traditional chinese or simplified chinese to read while listening.  This is a very good practice and I want everybody do that for homework. 


Notes :

"Greetings:

Nǐ hǎo

The literal translation is "you good". Many adjectives in Chinese also function as verbs. So here, "good" also functions as "to be good".

Hǎo

Nǐ hǎo ma?

This is asked more seriously than in English, where we casually ask "how are you?" It is usually asked of people you haven’t seen for a long time.

Wǒ hěn hǎo

The hěn has a lighter meaning than "very" in English, so here, hěn hǎo could mean "pretty good." ©2009 www.chineselearnonline.com Lesson 2 Vocabulary & Notes Page 4/4

Pronoun summary:

Nǐ Wǒ Tā

Note: while the pronunciation of tā for he and she is the same, when written there are separate characters for he (他) and she(她).

Tāhǎ ma?

Tāhě hǎ

Xièxie

Xièxie nǐ

Note: When the same character is repeated as in the above example, the second one frequently adopts a neutral tone

Zàijiàn

The literal meaning is "again meet" or see you again (later)

Culture Note: When greeting someone in China, it is common to bow your head. For formal occasions, they will also shake hands as in the West. When businessmen meet it is obligatory to exchange business cards. "


( I copy and paste for this section from their learning material, it's free to download it for everyone, so please do so cus that help a lot for your learning)


Hints and Tips

"Make a list of all the reasons you have for wanting to learn Chinese. Perhaps you could

structure this list into what good things will happen to you if you were able to speak

Chinese. Imagine yourself in that situation - having reached your goals. What would it

feel like? Now make a list of what would happen if you didn’t reach those goals. What

would it be like to be in the same situation but not knowing how to speak Chinese? From

time to time when you get frustrated in your learning attempts (a point we all get to at

some stage), come back to this list for motivation." from Chineselearnonline

Learning Chinese for Begginer Lesson 4--Greeting.

From last three lessons, We focus on our pronuciation, let's do some revision first. 

Question No. 1 what is pinyin?

Question No. 2 Can you all pronunce all the alphabet correctly?

Question No. 3 Do you know how many tones that Chinese language has?

You can find all the answers from the previous three lessons, I open the oportunities for everyone, the first 5 people leave the message and answer those three questions correctly, I will offer them 15 min free lesson online one by one.  So hurry up find your answers in previous lessons and get free lesson from me. 



Let's watch this video first

This video is easy, it covers a little bit tone from previous lessons, and there are som vocabulary and some sentences for you to learn.  what are the new vocabulary for this video?

Let's watch what other video show you how to say hello in Chinese

This video is a little bit long but be patience, so right now you know how to say hello in Chinese now? 

Learning Chinese--Introducing a good website--Melnyks.com

How is everyone learning so far? Do you memorize all the pinyin already? Today I want to introduce a really good website, called Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk. In his wesbite, you can find all the chinese learning material you want, from begginer to advanced.  Moreover, every lesson with audio file that you can download free from iphone and ipad.  Just go itune pocast and type in Mandarin chinese lessons with serge Melnyk, their pocast is free to download, and so far thier pocast review is 5 stars.   You can also choose to join for the membership, they have different kinds of offer in their membership.  



Serge Melnyk studied Mandarin for almost 25 years and spent the last 17 years living in China. Currently, He spends his time between Vancouver, Canada and Shanghai, China. He has a Master’s degree in Asian Studies and Chinese linguistics from a prestigious university and He used to work for many years as educational director in the international school in Shanghai.


What I also found really good about this website is that thier transcript provided with both traditionally Mandarin and Simplified Mandarin.  Most of the website only showed simplified Mandarin but actually if you go to Taiwan and Hongkong, people over there are speaking Mandarin and with written in traditional Mandarin, China is with simplified Mandarin.  They both sounds the same the only different is the written work. 


In his website, even join membership is not free, but if you really want to learn a language well, good investment is needed, but before you pay, you can listen to their free poscast or in his website, they have 30 free chinese lessons to download, and in every lesson, he all put the questions that students ask him and his answers, you are also welcome to ask him questions, they will reply you within 24 hours.  Besides lessons, they also offer online chinese tutoring, $500 for 10 hours lessons, 1 hour a week.  So if you are interested, you can schedule for the lessons. 



Right now they already have over 200 audio lessons and PDF transcript, you can learn in your own pace, whenever you have 15-20 min a week.  You can start from zero and just follow thier lessons step by step, you can download their audio file from ipad, iphone, listen to the file on the car or at home.  Just make sure each lesson is interconnected and every lesson has new vocabulary to learn and reviewed. 

Okay, finally, once again, I get no commission for introducing this website, I just simply feel this is a good website for any chinese learners.  I am also very welcome people asking any questions related to chinese learning, and I am also an online tutor too, email me for the lessons (kai0224liu@gmail.com), $20 for one hour. Thank you so much.