Sunday, August 25, 2013

Mandarin Chinese--Lesson 23 (Cities and some famious places in Chinese)

Chinese Language Learning Program

Lesson 23 – Cities and some famious places in Chinese



Hello, everyone. It is so nice to see you again today. This is Baixue’s Chinese Language Learning Program. Last time, we learned how to talk about weather in mandarin. Today, w will learn cities and some famious places of China in mandarin Chinese.

Before we start to learn cities and some famious places in Chinese language, we need to check the homework I gave to you last time.

běi jīng    shàng hǎi
                

Did you read them correctly? Good. Now we can start to learn cities and some famious places in mandarin.

běi jīng                       shàng  hǎi                              shēn zhèn               
     (Beijing)               (Shanghai)               (Shenzhen)

guáng zhōu                         xiāng gǎng                               ào  mēn
      广     (Guangzhou)                (Hong Kong)          (Macau)

sū  zhōu                      qīng dǎo                        wēn zhōu
     (Suzhou)              (Qingdao)            (Wenzhou)

dà  liān                        guì lǐn                         xī  zàng
    (Dalian)            (Guilin)          西    (Tibet)

cháng  jiāng                            huáng  hé                                xī  ān
      (Yangzi river)                (Yellow River)      西  (Xi’an)

jīn tiān wǒ dá suàn qǜ cháng chéng.   nǐ  ne?
                           城。        呢?
(I am going to go to the Great Wall today. How about you? )

wǒ dá suàn xiān qǜ  gù gōng, rān hòu qǜ tiān ān mén.
                     ,                    门。
(I am going to go to the Forbidden City first, and then go to Tian’anmen.)

nǐ  qǜ guò shào lǐn sì ma?
                 吗?(Have you ever been to Shaolin Temple?)

méi yǒu, dàn shì wǒ qǜ guò  é  méi shān.
     有,                     山。
(No. But I have been to Mount Emei.)

Homework for today.

Please read the following Chinese characters by using the Chinese pinyin you have learned. I will read it in our next class, so you can check if your pronunciation is correct.

dōng  xī  nán běi
       西     

Ok, that is all for today. We will learn directions in Chinese in our next class.

xiè  xiè 
    (Thanks!)

xià   cì   jiàn 
      ! (See you next time!)

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