Introduction (Part I)

CHI I-101
Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
(Shi Laoshi)
BHSEC

1 10/27/2024
 Learning Goals

Some
useful
expressions
The Sound
system
The Internet
Writing resources
system

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih, Bard High School

2 10/27/2024
Early College
 Class schedule for Wk 1 &
Wk 2

Part I
Part III
Chinese language and Part II
Dialects
Chinese tones
Syllabic Structure & Pinyin
(focus on Initials) Pinyin: Finals
More radicals
Some Expressions:
The Writing System
Greetings & Introduction
Count from 1 to 10

Internet Resources 。 Some Expressions

Some Expressions

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,

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Bard High School Early College
 Topics (Intro. Part I)

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese

What is the difference between Ch. And Eng.?

Chinese Language and dialects.

Pinyin System: focus on Initials. (Textbook: p.
2-5)

Some Chinese expressions: Greetings and
introduction (hand-out)

Internet resources/on-line language tools.

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 What is the difference?
•Sino-Tibetan Language •Indo-European
Family language Family

?
•Ideograms •Alphabetical Writing
•Tonal language •Not a tonal language
• The earlies •Old English –5 th
Chinese scripts century –10th
found on oracle
Chinese English century.
bones around in
1250 B.C.

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 Chinese Language and
Dialects

How many ethnic groups in China? Which Ethnic group is the
largest group?

Officially 56 ethnic groups, the largest group is the Han (over 90%)

How many Chinese dialects are there? Can you name some
of them?

There are 8 major regional dialects (such as Northern, Hakka,
Cantonese, and Min dialects).

They are often mutually unintelligible.

What is Mandarin Chinese? What is it also known as in
Mainland China? What is it also called in Taiwan and other
Southeast Asia?

(See answers in the next slide)
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
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Bard High School Early College
 What is Mandarin Chinese? What is it also
known as in Mainland China, Taiwan or Southeast
Asia?


Mandarin Chinese is the standard language used
by Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is what we are
learning in the class. Its pronunciation is based on
the speech of Beijing.
 In mainland China: pǔtōnghuà ( 普通话 ) (literally
translated “common language”); also Known as “guó
yǔ” ( 国语 ) (meaning “national language”) (1.guó :
country ; nation ; 2. yǔ : dialect ; language)

In Taiwan and other regions (such as Singapre and
Malaysia: “ hàn yǔ” ( 汉语 ). (“the language spoken by
Han people).
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 What is Pinyin and Why Pinyin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UfhlkL_L
Mo&feature=relmfu

Pinyin is a phonetic system for pronouncing
Chinese character.

Pinyin (Pin= spell, yin= sound)

Unlike Western language, the characters do
not always indicate how they are pronounced.
For example,

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That is why you need pinyin.
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
10/27/2024
Bard High School Early College
 Each Chinese character is a
syllable
Tone
Character  a syllable = -----------------------
(Initial) -- final
(Hanyu) Pinyin is used to represent Chinese sounds.

Example: hǎo= h + ǎo
(Initial） （final）
(Consonants) (Vowels)

**Finals can be vowels (e.g., a, e, i, o, u) or vowels and ending

consonants –[n] or –[ng] (e.g., --ing ).
My name is made up of three characters: 施 玲 玲 shī
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By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,
líng líng
10/27/2024
Bard High School Early College
 Pinyin is not English!!

“Zhang”

“Peng You”

“liu” ，“ jiu”

“cang”

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 21 initial consonants in Modern Standard
Chinese (not counting y & w):
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/pinyin.htm

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 Six basic Chinese vowels:
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/pinyin.htm

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 Chinese Four Tones:
http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/Tones/Tones.htm

The same syllable with different tones

different meaning, different character
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 Let us randomly choose a sound “ma”
and illustrate its four different tones

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 
“mother rides a horse; the horse is slow;
mother scolds the horse“

Māma qímă mămàn māma màmă
妈妈 骑马 , 马慢 , 妈妈 骂马


妈妈 mā ma mother

骑马 qí mǎ to ride a horse;

慢 màn slow;

骂 mà to scold

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 Initials (Shēngmǔ)


A song on Initials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r1cw-q7
Q1w&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQAzioCG
Wdo&feature=relmfu
(b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h,j,q,x,z,y,w)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMUoZjV
By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih
Bard High School Early College
10/27/2024
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 Initials: b, p, m, f

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih,

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Bard High School Early College
 Initials: d, t, n, l

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

Bard High School Early College
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 The tongue position when you
proununce “zh,” “ch”, “sh”, “r”
How to pronounce zi ci s zhi ch shi ri

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 Initials: z, c, s

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 y, w

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 
http://www.youtube.com/user/sloppycheng#
p/c/94A5E422FB99CDDD/2/FIxK7mEYFBI

聲母韻母歌
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jX4oZrlw
o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc-QrFahttg
#t=62

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 Internet Resources: Greetings
and introduction.

http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/
20100803/100891.shtml
(Growing up with Chinese--Lesson 1
Greetings).

http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/
20100427/101112.shtml
(Easy Chinese--Lesson 1)

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 Internet Resources: Chinese Characters
with stroke order animation

Enter characters and find out the stroke count

and order:

http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/
home.do

The animation of Chinese characters in the
textbook “Integrated Chinese”:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/charac
ter/

http://xh.5156edu.com/conversion.html
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 Other on-line language tools:

http://www.purpleculture.net/chinese-pinyin-
converter/
(quickly convert selected Chinese text from
any webpage to Pinyin with pronunciation.)

http://www.purpleculture.net/chinese-senten
ce-pronunciation/
(Convert Chinese vocabulary/sentence into
Mandarin Speech).

Links to more Chinese tools on above links.

By Prof. Ling-Ling Shih

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Bard High School Early College
 On-line Dictionaries

http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.htm
l

http://www.purpleculture.net/chinese-english
-dictionary/
(a valuable Chinese-English and English-
Chinese Dictionary) ***

http://www.chineseetymology.org/ (Learn
about the etymology of a Chinese character)

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 How to Type in Chinese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdmUGZ-
BG0
(How to type Mandarin / Chinese PinYin on
iOS iPad and iPhone)

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