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Review of the Previous Lesson
Lesson 2: Family Introduction
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>This is my mom.
这是我的妈妈。 (zhè shì wǒ de mā ma)
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In Chinese, 这是我的爸爸。 (zhè shì wǒ de bà ba)
PinYin
Review of the Previous Lesson
“spelling sound” or “phonetics” of Chinese.
portant;”>We learned “a” as in “father” in Lesson 1.
portant;”>Mandarin Chinese has four pitched tones and a “toneless” tone. Different tone expresses different meaning.
“
a” is pronounced like this.portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In today’s lesson, we learn “o“, approximately as in “office”, but the lips are much more rounded.
“
o” like this.Vocabulary
Review of the Previous Lesson
portant;”>Name, 名字 (míng zi)
我 (wǒ)
你 (nǐ)
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In today’s lesson, we learn 3 new words.
我的
(wǒ de)妈妈 (mā ma)
爸爸 (bà ba)
Review
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>We learned Family Introduction.
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In Chinese, 这是我的妈妈。 (zhè shì wǒ de mā ma)
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In Chinese, 这是我的爸爸。 (zhè shì wǒ de bà ba)
Dialog Practice
portant; color: rgb(63, 49, 46); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>I am going to introduce my self first, then introduce my mom and my dad, then, Amy’s turn. OK?
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