FORELAN: Foreign Language

Basic Greetings/Leave-takings
Trivia 5 (Part 1): 10 Things You Need to
Know about Chinese Culture 1-5
Basic Greetings
Conversation 1 to 4
Appreciate Chinese culture
Practice basic greetings through conversations
 Review
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1st tone 2nd tone 3rd tone 4th tone

Trivia 5 (Part 1)
There is proper chopstick etiquette
Gift giving rules
Order of names
Misread fortune cookies
There are more than 20,000 characters
and no alphabet in the Chinese
language
Basic Greetings
A: Nĭ hăo. (Hello.)

B: Zhāng Lăoshī hăo. (Hello, Teacher Zhang.)/

Santos Xiānsheng hăo. (Hello, Mr. Santos.)
A: Zăo ān. (Good morning.) /
Wŭ ān. (Good afternoon.)

B: Zăo. (Good morning.) /

Wŭ ān. (Good afternoon.)
A: Wăn shàng hăo. (Good evening.)
B: Wăn shàng hăo. (Good evening.)
A: Nĭ hăo ma? (How are you?)
B: Wŏ hěn hăo. / Hăo. (I’m very fine. / Fine.)
A: Wŏ zŏu le. (I’m leaving.)
B: Zài jiàn. (Goodbye.)
A: Nĭ hăo ma? (How are you?)
B: Wŏ hěn hăo. / Hăo. / Hăi kě yĭ. (I’m very good/fine.
/ Good/Fine. / Not bad.)
Nĭ ne? (How about you?)
A: Wŏ yě hěn hăo. Xiè xie. (I am also very fine. / Thank
you.)
B: Qĭng zuò. Qĭng hē chá/kā fēi. (Please sit. Please
drink tea/coffee.)
A: Hăo de. Xiè xie. (Okay. Thank you.)
 Start practicing
•By yourself
•With your classmate/friend
Different Kinds of Chopsticks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvdetXmRic
How to Properly Exchange Gifts with a Chinese Person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYtlQuK1Uc
Learn Basic Greeting in Mandarin Chinese: Hello, How Are You, Thank You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LWu81kWqE
Basic Chinese Greetings: Hello, Thank You and Goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2WN_AH_4bo
Say “How Are You?” in Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJndk4ANbE