Wednesday, October 8, 2014

September Class Review

With only four students on board in Sep, we have lots of opportunities to practice our pronunciation, to seek for individual attention and help from the teacher.  So far, things we’ve learned, but not limited to, are the following:

*  how to greet and to respond to greetings in more sophisticated ways besides “Ni-hao.”  

* to count numbers 1 to 12 and read clocks, which allows us to playing the game “Old Wolf, Old Wolf, What Time Is It?” in Chinese.  

* to be aware of the different tones for one sound. One thing we have been aware is that in Mandarin Chinese, the tone of each character (equivalent to English word) is super important. Since many characters share the same sound but mean totally different things, four tones are used to differentiate them from each other; for example, mǎ (horse) is very different from mā (mother). 

* to recognize some Chinese characters and phrases, especially through playing the “Matching Cards” game. 

* to familiarized ourselves with Chinese classroom instructions. 






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