2. Mandarin Chinese lesson one Pinyin 20/01/20121Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

3. In this lesson you will learn…. pinyin greetings a few simple Chinese characters 20/01/20122Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

4. What is pinyin? Pinyin was adopted in the people’s Republic of China in 1958. Pinyin uses alphabetic to assist the pronunciation of Mandarin. Pinyin has initials, finals and tone marks. e.g. pīng 20/01/20123Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

5. Initials bpmfd tnlgk hjqxz cszhchsh rwy 20/01/20124Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

6. Finals aoeiuü aioueiiauaüe aoongeniaouoüan anengieuaiün angeriuui ianuan inun ianguang ing iong 20/01/20125Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

7. Tone marks 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk6 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 a>o>e>i>u> ü, e.g. hăo. However, for ‘iu’ and ‘ui’, tone marks have to be over the last vowel, e.g. huì and xiū.

8. PINYIN EXERCISE 20/01/20127Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk

9. Task 1 Read the following pinyin 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk8 1. wō wó wǒ wò 2. yū yú yǔ yù 3. bā bá bǎ bà 4. xiū xiú xiŭ xiù 5. chī chí chǐ chì 6. mēn mén mĕn mèn 7. huō huó huǒ huò 8. pīng píng pĭng pìng Note: When ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘x’ and ‘y’ are used with ‘ ü’, ‘üe’, ‘üan’ and ‘ün’, the two dots over ‘ü’ are omitted as in the second line above.

10. Task 2 Sound discrimination 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk9 1.bēng pēng 2. nŭ nǚ 3.Jiāng jiā 4. chì qù 5. năn nuǎn 6. yě xiě 7.sì shì 8. wú rú 9. yī yīn

11. Task 3 Read the following sentences. 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk10 1. Wǒ xǐhuan chī yú 。 2. Nǐ shì lǎoshī ma ？ 3. Tā de gēge méiyǒu gōngzuò 。 4. Wǒmen dōu shì zhōngguórén 。 5. Xīngqītiān wǒ hé péngyou qù gōngyuán 。

12. Greetings Hello Nǐ hǎo How are you? Nǐ hǎo ma ？ I am very well, and you? Wǒ hěn hǎo ， nǐ ne ？ I am very well, too. Wǒ yě hěn hǎo 。 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk11 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.

13. Chinese characters Copy the characters in the middle column Sun 日 rì Moon 月 yuè Mountain 山 shān Stone 石 shí You 你 nĭ I/me 我 wŏ 20/01/2012Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk12 Note: Chinese characters are widely used in China on daily basis, and they are the written forms of Chinese language.

14. Today we have learned : pinyin including initials, finals and tone marks; greeting in Chinese; six Chinese characters. 20/01/201213Qiaochao Zhang q.zhang9@aston.ac.uk