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The Chinese for Beginners course consists of the following 16 lessons:

1 Studying the Pinyin system 9 Chinese class

2 Hello (example lesson) 10 I’m going to the library

3 My name is… 11 What’s the time?

4 Dad and mom 12 My birthday

5 My pet 13 How’s the weather

6 My house is not big 14 Where do you work?

7 Breakfast 15 What’s your hobby?

8 What food do you like? 16 I watch tv every day

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学汉语 Unit One - You and I

第一单元我和你

第二课你好 Hello

Lesson 2 第二课 Hello 你好

目录 Table of contents

课程简介 Introduction of the lesson 3

1. 词汇 Vocabulary 4

2. 课文 Texts 4

3. 句型 Sentence pattern 5

4. 词语搭配 Read and match 6

5. 写汉字Write characters 6

6. 发音练习 Pronunciation practice – listen and repeat 7

练习答案 Answers to the exercises 7

课程小结 Summary of the lesson 8

课后作业 Assignment 8

Lesson 2第二课 Hello你好

课程简介 Introduction of the lesson In this lesson, you will learn how to give greetings and farewells in Chinese. You

will apply what you learned in the first lesson about the pinyin system into real

life conversation practice. In addition, you will learn the basic Chinese sentence

structure and write Chinese characters that are relevant to these texts. Finally

you will practice to pronounce four simple finals in four different tones.

Before the lesson, there is a brief introduction of the names of four persons,

which will appear in the texts conversation:

wāng míng xiǎo míng

王明 昵称 (nickname): 小明

zhāng hóng xiǎo hóng

张红 昵称 (nickname): 小红

David dà wèi

中文名(Chinese translation name): 大卫

Mary mǎ lì

中文名(Chinese translation name): 玛丽

1. 词汇 Vocabulary 05

You will use the following words in this lesson. Please study the pinyin, the

Chinese characters and the translation carefully and then listen to the

pronunciation of the words. It is very important to learn the Chinese characters

by heart as they will be used in several parts of this lesson.

nǐ 你 you

wǒ 我 I, me

hǎo 好 good

ma 吗 a question particle

hěn 很 very

ne 呢 a question particle

xiè 谢 thank

zài 再 again

jiàn 见 see

2. 课文 Texts 06

Please see the following conversation between xiǎo míng and xiǎo hóng. Start by

reading the pinyin a couple of times to understand what the conversation is

about. Then listen to the audio file several times. Next read the Chinese

characters several times. And the last step is to listen to the audio file while

looking at the Chinese characters.

xiǎo míng ní hǎo.

小明： 你好！

xiǎo hóng ní hǎo.

小红： 你好！

xiǎo míng ní hǎo ma?

小明： 你好吗？

xiǎo hóng wǒ hén hǎo nǐ ne?

小红： 我很好，你呢？

xiǎo míng wǒ hén hǎo xiè xiè.

小明： 我很好，谢谢。

xiǎo hóng zài jiàn

小红： 再见。

xiǎo míng zài jiàn

小明： 再见。

Congratulations! You have read and listened to your first Chinese conversation.

Keep it up!

3. 句型 Sentence pattern

In this paragraph you will learn how words are structured within a sentence.

Please study them one by one and reread them several times. Please carefully pay

attention to the differences of every number.

(1) Contrastive sentences with stative verbs

Pattern: Topic/subject stative verb

nǐ hǎo

你好

*Meaning: this literally means “you are fine”, used in daily life to say “hello”.

Please be aware that the predicate “be” is always omitted in Chinese.

Another example:

wó hǎo

我好 I am good

(2) Stative verbs with adverbial modifiers

Pattern: Topic/subject Adverbial modifier Stative verb

wǒ hěn hǎo

我很好 I’m very good

Other example:

xiǎo míng hěn hǎo

小明很好。小明 is good.

(3)Type of question: Question with the interrogative particle “吗 ma”

Pattern: Statement (你好) + particle (吗)?

nǐ hǎo ma

你好吗?How are you?

(4)Type of question: Follow-up questions, with the particle “呢 ne”

Pattern: Topic/Subject 1 + comment, topic/subject2 +呢 ne?

wǒ hěn hǎo nǐ ne

我很好，你呢？I’m good, how about you?

(5) Subject (omitted) + (Adverbial) Predicate + Object (omitted)

wǒ xiè xiènǐ

a.我谢谢你

This is the idiomatic usage to express “thank you / thanks”

wǒ zài jiàn nǐ

我再见你

This is the idiomatic usage to express “goodbye”

4. 词语搭配 Read the words on the left and match them with the

corresponding English meaning on the right

1) 你 I/me

2) 我 Thanks

3) 很 very

4) 好 you

5) 谢谢 good/fine

The correct match will be revealed to you further in this lesson.

5. 写汉字Write characters

Now you will learn how to write the Chinese characters the right way. Step by

step the character is build up. Please write the Chinese characters in the way

described below.

wǒ

我

nǐ

你

hěn

很

hǎo

好

xiè

谢

zài

再

jiàn

见

6. 发音练习 Pronunciation practice – listen and repeat 07

ā á ǎ à

ē é ě è

ī í ǐ ì

ō ó ǒ ò

练习答案 Answers to the exercises

4. 词语搭配 Read the words on the left and match them with the

corresponding English meaning on the right

1) 你 you

2) 我 I/me

3) 很 very

4) 好 good/fine

5) 谢谢 thanks

课程小结 Summary of the lesson

经过这一节课，你应该掌握：

After this lesson, you should be able to

Speak basic conversation of sending greetings and farewells

Understand the basic sentence structure and try to make sentences with the

same pattern

Write Chinese characters that appeared in the texts

Practice with 4 tones with different finals

课后练习 Assignment

1) 请根据拼音和英语翻译按正确笔画写出下列汉字 Please write Chinese

characters according to the following pinyin and English translation (Pay

attention to the order of stokes):

nǐ you

wǒ I, me

hǎo good

hěn very

xiè thank

zài again

jiàn see

2)请补全对话 Please fill in the blanks with the right Chinese according to the

context:

a.

你好。

A: ( )

B:你好吗？

A:我很好，( )

B:我也很好( )

A:再见。

B: ( )

Please hand in your assignment for grading and feedback.