Course Introduction

• 1.The basic Mandarin course is for absolute beginners.

• 2. The course is provided one time per week
• 3. You will finish this book one and two-thirds of the next book,
16 chapters in total
• 4. You will study Pinyin, daily Chinese words & expressions, and
189 basic characters
• 5.There will be a quiz per week , a test every four chapters and
a final exam
• 6. if you are absent more than 4 times or late more than 6
times you will be disqualified from the final exam
• 7.Your final grade will be based on 4 parts:
parts
Attendance(10%), Performance in class(10%), Quizzes,
homework and tests(20%), the final exam(60%)
 Brief Introduction on Mandarin
Syllables：
21 Initials , 39 Finals , 4 tones

Basic Sentence structure :

• Subject-Predicate
• Subject + Verb + object
• Attributive and adverbial modifiers are placed before central words.
•The interrogative sentence and the declarative sentence share the same word
orders.
orders
Characters:
Characters
• If you master 3000 frequently-used Chinese characters, you can read
newspapers and books.
• Almost every character has a meaning or several meanings, so we can guess
words' meanings through characters' meanings.
Chapter 1 Nǐ hǎo

Pronunciations (1)

Greeting

Characters (1)
 Pronunciations (1)＊
11 Initials Pinyin (1)

19 Finals
4 Tones

combination of Initials,Finals and Tones

Neutral tone

Sandhi in the third tone

 Initials 声母 shēngmǔ
b p m f

d t n l

g k h
 Finals 韵母 yùmǔ

•ɑ o e i u ü
• ɑi ei ɑo ou
• ɑn en in
• uɑ uo uɑi uei(ui)
• uɑn uen(un)
 Initial+ Finals

b ɑ p o me

ti l u nü

d ɑ i fei p ɑ o t ou
Tones
ā ō ē
5
á ó é
4
3
ǎ ǒ ě
2
à ò è
1

ī í ǐ ì ūúǔù ǖǘǚǜ
 Initial+ Finals +Tones
l ā p ō f ēi
5
l á p ó féi
4
3
lǎ pǒ f ěi
2
là p ò
1
fèi
nī ní nǐ nì tū tú tǔ tù
pāo páo pǎo pào
 lóu tǐ náo

fǒu lèi mài

děi tōu nǚ

write three syllables and ask your partner to

read them
Initials Finals

g an en

k ua uo uai uei(ui)
uan uen(un)
h

ˉ ˊ ˇ ˋ
 Initial+ Finals +Tones
bān pǐn mén
gǎi kuǎ háo
huī tuán lùn
nuǎn kù hóu
guó tuǐ màn
听写或者判断声韵调
 The neutral tone (1) qĪngshēng

• The neutral tone are some syllables pronounced

both shortly and lightly in Mandarin Chinese.
wŏmen nǐmen tāmen
wŏde n ĭde tāde
māma bàba gēge dìdi
Nĭ hǎo ma ?
 The sandhi in the third tone (1)
• When two adjacent syllables both carry third tones,
the first syllable must be pronounced as the second
tone::
tone

nǐ + hǎo → níí hǎo

• Kĕ + yĭ → kéyĭ
kéyĭ
• mĕi + hǎo → méi
éihǎo
hǎo
 The sandhi in the third tone (1)
• When two adjacent syllables both carry third tones,
the first syllable must be pronounced as the second
tone:

nǐ + hǎo → níí hǎo

• Kĕ + yĭ → kéyĭ
kéyĭ
• mĕi + hǎo → méi
éihǎo
hǎo
 How to greet people and reply
Nǐ hǎo
Nín hǎo
Nǐmen hǎo
Nǐ hǎo ma?
Hái kěyǐ.
nǐ,wǒ,tā, nǐmen,wǒmen,tāmen
 New words
wǒ I,me wǒ
nǐ you nǐ men
nín
tā
tā he,she
the neutral tone
 ˇ＋ˇ ˊ ＋ ˇ
A: nǐ
hǎo ma ?
nín
nǐmen

B: Hái kěyǐ.

go outside and greet Chinese people

and write down their replies
 classroom expressions
look at
• kàn PPT.
• kàn look at báibǎn. white board
• gēn follow wǒ dú. read
• gēn follow wǒ shuō. speak
 Rules of writing syllables
• 1.Where do we put a tone mark?
(1) A tone mark must be put above a vowel.
aoeiuü
(2)If there are more than one vowel in a syllable,
a tone mark must be above the main vowel.
aoeiuü
huā běi kào guó
 Rules of writing syllables
• 2. i →
yi
ü →yu
u →wu
→
uo wo
• bō pí nǚ lè
• mén wū duì bǎn
• gǎi kuài hēi tóu
• kàn lái pǎo guān
 Chinese Characters(1)

Strokes：一（héng） 丨（shù）

The usual orders of strokes

a few simple characters with

一（héng） and 丨（shù） ：

一 二 三 十 土 上
 characters

yī one èr two sān three

 characters

shí ten tǔ soil shàng

on,above
 Homework
• 1. Read the syllables you have learned in
this chapter.
• 2. Read and write the syllables in the
following three slides .
• 3. Write the characters you have learned
today.
 māo
mǎ

gǒu
dìtú mǐfàn

dàngāo
 lóutī

yǔyī
máobǐ