Sunday, June 21, 2009

New Language Source Found

Da jia hao!

I was looking for a website that teaches how to write chinese characters, (I was actually looking for something like writing workbooks, like what we have for learning to write abc's in elementary school), and I just found a new learning site for Chinese learners. You can learn everything from the chinese alphabet to reading to listening to writing to speaking. Did you get all that? ha ha.
The most important is the writing, ha ha. The oral part is understood through context, but one wrong dash could be disasterous when writing in chinese, :D. I am waiting on approval to post it here. :)

-Denaz

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Lesson 3 Vocab

Lesson 3 Vocab.
1. 种 zhong1=sort, type; a common classifier
2. 件 jian4 = ite; classifier for clothing, event and thing.
3. 东西 dong1xi= thing, object (cl. 件 (jian4) 个 (ge).
4. 方法 fang1fa = method (cl. 个).
5. 朋友 peng2you = friend (cl. 个).
6. 同学 tong2xue2 = fellow-student (cl. 个).
7. 太 tai4 = too (excessive)
8. 很 hen3 = very
9. ...行不行 ...xing2buxing = Will...be all right?
10. 好 hao3 = good

Practice
1. 你好吗?Ni3 hao3 ma? = How are you? (Lit: you well?)
2. 这行不行?Zhe xing2buxing? = Will this be all right?
3. 你是一个很好朋友。Ni shi yi ge hen hao pengyou. = You are a very good friend.
4. 太好。Tai hao. = Too good.

All for now. More on the way.

-Denaz