It starts off with pinyin, not characters because it is how we learned our native langauges first-listening and speaking/repeating.
Many new vocabulary words here: (#=tone)
Date is different than in English:year-month-day (in chinese)
Jin1tian1 shi4 er4-ling-ling-ba1 nian2 shi2-yi1-yue4 er4shi2si4 hao4 (hao3=good; hao4=day).
Today is 2008/11/24; Today is November 24th, 2008.
To make an ordinal number add the prefix "di4". Di4yi1=1st, etc.
End of Part 1 of Lesson 1
-Denaz
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