CHINESE LEARNING

Qian HE (何倩)
Contents

■ Self introduction

■ Introduction about Chinese

■ New words

■ Conversation practice
Introduce yourself

■ Background

■ Why do you want to learn Chinese?

■ What do you expect from here?

Chinese (Mandarin) Phonetics发音
■ Initials (consonants) „ 辅音

■ Finals (a vowel, or a combination of vowels, sometimes with a nasal at the end) „ 元音

■ Tones (four distinct and one light tones) 声调

■ Each Chinese character corresponds to one syllable.音节

A syllable is consist of an initial, a final and a tone.
Initials (23)
Finals (6+18)
Overall syllable 整体认读音节 (16)
4 tones，and a light tone
Tongue twister
The evolution of Chinese Characters.
Logical Aggregates:
Links

Why learning Chinese

■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1UaQvs-3E
Pronunciation of initials and finals
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKep0hxW_hE
How to use pinyin keyboard
■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ip4VjlD7Ew
■ https://goo.gl/UwsX2R; https://goo.gl/iVqnSr
Questions？
See you next time 下次见