Basic Chinese

Day 1
nǐ hǎo What is pinyin?
Phonetic system for
你好 pronouncing Chinese
Hello!! What is hanzi?
Chinese characters

汉语
Han yu
Chinese
Greetings!!
A: nǐ hǎo ma?
你好吗 ？
How are you? New words
B: wǒ hěn hǎo 。 nǐ ne ？
nǐ: you
我很好你呢?
Hǎo: good
I am very fine. How about you? Ma: question
A: wǒ yě hěn hǎo 。我也很好 Wǒ: me/I
xiè xie nín. 谢谢您 Hěn: very
Yě: also
I am also fine. Thank you. xiè xie: thank you
For people higher rank or older than us
We use “nín hǎo”
“您好”
Eg our boss/ our teachers/ parents/grandparents etc

For many people in a room/hall

We use “dà jiā hǎo”
“大家好”
Where are you from?

China Nepal
zhōng guó ní bó ěr
中国 尼泊尔
Beijing
běi jīng kathmandu
北京 jiā dé mǎn dū
加德满都
Chengdu Pokhara
chéng dū bó kǎ lā
成都 卡 博拉
Components of Chinese languge
• Initials
• Finals
• tones
Chinese initials

gen wo du
跟我读！！
Read after me!!
Chinese finals
Chinese initials and finals part 1
Chinese initials and finals part 2
Chinese initials and finals part 3
Chinese initials and finals part 4
Chinese initials and finals (all the sounds in Chinese)
Total 409 sounds