{"id":5889,"date":"2019-11-18T20:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-004-revision-of-basic-knowledge-of-chinese\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:07:27","slug":"lesson-004-revision-of-basic-knowledge-of-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-004-revision-of-basic-knowledge-of-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 004 Revision of Basic Knowledge of Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>M: \u5927\u5bb6\u597d\uff01Is everybody ok? Dajia hao. Huanying, Welcome to LCN. Wo shi ML, I&#8217;m ML, wo shi ML. <br \/>  S: Wo shi Stuart. OK, today&#8217;s revision time. <br \/>  M: We&#8217;ll go over what we learned in the past week <br \/>  S: Standard Chinese, or Putonghua. Has four tones, different tone, different meaning. They are&#8230; <br \/>  M: 1,2,3,4. <br \/>  S: Flat, up, down and up, down. <br \/>  M: And lots of compound words, like electric shadow \u7535\u5f71, meaning movie, or electric vehicle \u7535\u8f66, meaning tramcar or trolleybus. <br \/>  S: We write the sounds in pinyin. XIAO, for example, is how we write the sound xiao. The X is pro<em><\/em>nounced \u897f. And don&#8217;t forget, repeat EVERYTHING we say in Chinese. Try to say it with us. <br \/>  M: And use active listening and speaking &#8211; imagine what&#8217;s happening. For example, Angry! \u751f\u6c14, be angry when you say it. I&#8217;m very angry \u6211\u5f88\u751f\u6c14! <br \/>  S: Or \u6211\u5f88\u7d2f\u3002Wo hen lei. I&#8217;m very tired. <br \/>  M: Ok, that&#8217;s a quick recovery, Stuart. What else did we learn? <br \/>  S: \u4f60\u597d! How are you\uff1f \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230\u4e2d\u56fd\u6765, welcome to China. And \u8c22\u8c22. Thanks. <br \/>  M: Huanying HUANYING\uff0cis welcome. Huanying ni\uff0cwelcome you. Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. DAO D&agrave;o , to arrive, or reach. <br \/>  S: And \u4e2d\u56fd, zhong ZHONG zhong is middle. gu&oacute; GUO Gu&oacute;,&nbsp; is country, or kingdom, so zhongguo, Middle Kingdom, China. <br \/>  M: And l&aacute;i LAI l&aacute;i, to come. Welcome to China \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230\u4e2d\u56fd\u6765. Say it everybody. Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. Huanying ni dao zho<em><\/em>ngguo lai. <br \/>  S: And \u8c22\u8c22\u3002xiexie XIEXIE, which means thanks. Say xiexie, everybody. Xiexie. <br \/>  M: \u5f88\u597d\u3002Very good. Hen hao. <br \/>  M: \u6b22\u8fce\uff0cwelcome, back to LCN. <br \/>  S: Now ML will welcome me to some different cities. Try to pick out the city, and repeat everything. <br \/>  M: \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 (pause) \u5317\u4eac \u6765. Huanying ni dao Beijing lai. <br \/>  S: Got it? Right. Northern capital, Beijing. Another. <br \/>  M: \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 \u5357\u4eac \u6765, huanying ni dao nanjing lai. <br \/>  S: Good. Nanjing, southern capital. Nanjing. <br \/>  M: One more. \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 \u897f\u5b89 \u6765. Huanying ni dao xi&#8217;an lai. <br \/>  S: Welcome to Xian, wher the terracotta army is. <br \/>  M: Still one more. \u6b22\u8fce\u4f60\u5230 \u5e7f\u5dde \u6765. Hear it? Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong province, o<em><\/em>nce known as Canton. <br \/>  S: And time&#8217;s almost up, so let&#8217;s finish with a little tone practice. You guys at home, mimic us out loud. Louder the better. Let&#8217;s try ai AI AI ai. ML? <br \/>  M: \u0101i &aacute;i \u01cei &agrave;i. Again, \u0101i &aacute;i \u01cei &agrave;i. \u5f88\u597d\uff0cvery good. \u5f88\u597d\u3002 <br \/>  S: Now for hao, HAO, h\u0101o, h&aacute;o, h\u01ceo, h&agrave;o. <br \/>  M: Everyone. h\u0101o, h&aacute;o, h\u01ceo, h&agrave;o. <br \/>  S: hen hao. And remember, distinguishing between similar sounds in a language is im<em><\/em>portant. So try to hear the difference between JIN and JING. ML, over to you. <br \/>  M: Ok. JIN, jin, and JING, jing. First JIN, then JING. Jin, jing. Again. Jin, jing. Hear it? The ING is nasal, not &lsquo;in&#8217; but &lsquo;ing&#8217;. Everyone try it. jin, jing. <br \/>  S: jin, jing. Ah, that&#8217;s the difference between Tianjin and Beijing. <br \/>  M: \u975e\u5e38\u597d\u3002Very very good. Just the way to end our lesson. 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