Clearwater
Chinese School Conversation
Welcome to Our Chinese Conversation Class!
Teacher: Marian Lao(3)-shi(1)
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About the Teacher: Marian is from Taiwan and has been teaching this class for three years. She is an excellent teacher and well liked by her students. She teaches both conversation and writing. |
About the Class
Here is a sample
(tones omitted):
Mary: Women
jinwan qu kan dianying ba. Let's go to the movies tonight.
In class we go
over the translation and sentence structure, thus:
Wo(3)-men means "we or us"
jin(1)-wan(3) means "this evening"
qu(4) means "go out"
kan(4) means "see or watch"
dian(4)-ying(3) means "movie"
ba is a particle added to the end to ask "how 'bout it"
Once you get the
basic words and structure, you can put your own sentences together and make
conversation. Writing down the pinyin is a little easier than speaking.
It is a step on the road to becoming fluent in conversation, good practice.
- Learning Helpers
1.
Friendly Chinese
Community, Parties, Friends to Make
2.
Active Web Site
Dedicated to Discussion and Learning
- Participation
1.
In Classs
Discussions in Chinese
2.
Learn Chinese
Culture Xuexi Zhongguo wen(2)-hua(4)
3.
Explore the
Internet and Help Build Our Web Site
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Gong(1)-ke(4) Homework
1.
Easy Excercises
2.
Fun Learning on
Our Web Site
3.
IRC chat
assignments (example conversation on IRC #CHINA)
Tom: ni hao
Lemon: hello
Tom: I am trying to learn Chinese
Lemon: u r not a Chinese, are u
Tom: wo shi mei guo ren
Lemon: From US? cool
Lemon: i'm in Canada now
Tom: wo zai Florida
Lemon: florida, cool
Tom: can you do some pin yin?
Lemon: ke yi
Tom: wo xuexi zhongwen zai Qing Shui Zhongwen Xuexiao
Lemon: wo ming bai la
Tom: wo de laoshi de mingzi shi David
Tom: gramar dui bu dui
Lemon: dui, ta shi zhongguo ren ma?
Tom: dui, ta cong de shanghai
Lemon: shi ta gao su ni zhe ge mIRC server de ma?
Tom: bu
Lemon: we usually say "bu shi" not only "bu"
Tom: dui, bu shi
Lemon: your chinese is very good
Tom: xie xie nin
Tom: wo xuexi zhongwen wu nian
Lemon: hen chang de shi jian
Lemon: suo yi jiang de zhe mo hao
Lemon: it was very nice meeting u
Lemon: but i've to leave now
Lemon: hope to meet u next time
Tom: hao
Lemon: bye
Tom: zai jian
Join our class.
You can learn to chat in pin yin too!