intro compound finals and counting numbers

Page 1: Introduction

• Greeting:

  • Hello, Everyone! 大 家 好! Dà jiā hǎo!

  • Let’s begin the class. 上 课 Shàng kè

Page 2: New Words About Family Members

• Terms:

  1. 爸爸 (bàba) - Dad

  2. 妈妈 (māma) - Mom

  3. 哥哥 (gēge) - Old brother

  4. 姐姐 (jiějie) - Old sister

  5. 弟弟 (dìdi) - Younger brother

  6. 妹妹 (mèimei) - Younger sister

Page 3: Overview of Chinese Characters

• Distinctiveness:

  1. Chinese writing differs from many western languages structurally; it is not alphabetic.

  2. It is logographic, meaning characters represent meanings rather than sounds.

Page 4: Chinese Character Types

• Categories:Six categories of Chinese characters devised by ancient scholars:

  1. Pictographs (象形)

  2. Pictophonetic characters (形声): e.g., 妈 (mā), 吗 (ma)

  3. Associated compounds (会意): e.g., 明 (míng), 从 (cóng), 林 (lín)

  4. Self-explanatory characters (指事): e.g., 刃 (rèn)

  5. Mutually explanatory characters (转注)

  6. Phonetic loan character (假借): e.g., 莱 (lái)

  • Focus: The first four categories concern the formation of characters.

Page 5: The Quantity of Characters

• Character Count:

  1. Nearly 85,000 - 100,000 Chinese characters exist.

  2. Only thousands are used daily.

  3. Learning Goals:

     • 1,000 commonly used words cover about 92% of written information.

     • 2,000 words cover over 98%.

     • 3,000 characters cover 99% of writing material.

Page 6: Introduction to Writing

• Character Forms:

  1. Two forms of Chinese characters: Simplified and Traditional.

     • Simplified is standard in mainland China.

     • Traditional is mainly used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

  2. Character Shape: Square, well-balanced, and upright.

  3. Writing Direction: Modern simplified writing is written from left to right.

Page 7: Introduction of Characters

• Character Space:

  • Each Chinese character occupies the same space.

  • Basic Unit: The stroke is the minimum unit.

  • There are 12 basic simple strokes, with over 30 strokes in total.

Page 8: 12 Basic Strokes

• Strokes Overview:

  Stroke	Pinyin	Direction	Name	Example
  点	diăn		"Dot"	不
  撇	piě		"Throw away"	不
  捺	nà		"Press down"	大
  提	tí		"Rise"	打
  横钩	héng gōu		"Horizontal Hook"	家
  竖钩	shù gōu		"Vertical Hook"	好
  弯钩	wān gōu		"Bend Hook"	我
  斜钩	xié gōu		"Slant Hook"	见
  横折	héng zhé		"Horizontal Break"	每
  竖折	shù zhé		"Vertical Break"

Page 9: Writing Rules of Stroke Order

• Stroke Order Principles:

  1. Left to right: 川, 人

  2. Top to bottom: 三

  3. Horizontal before vertical: 十

  4. Outside to inside: 月

  5. Inside before closing: 日

  6. Middle before two sides: 小

Page 10: Practice Writing of Numbers 1-10

• Chinese Numbers:

  • 1 一 2 二 3 三 4 四 5 五 6 六 7 七 8 八 9 九 10 十

  • Inquiry: Count the stroke numbers of each number and practice how to write them.

Page 11: What You Need to Know & Do

• Assignments:

  1. Read and write eleven strokes 10 times each on page 17 of the textbook (TB).

  2. Speak Chinese numbers from 1 – 10 on page 20 of the TB.

  3. Write Chinese numbers 1-10 six times and six pinyin for each on pages 13-15 of the character book or Tianzige.

  4. Study new words from page 1 of these slides.

Page 12: Conclusion

• End of Class:

  1. The class is over. 下 课. Xià kè

  2. Good-bye! 再 见! Zài jiàn!