Today

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Todays Objectives

• To learn history of Chinese characters
• To learn the types of characters
• Begin to understand character stroke order
• Implement writing rules and begin writing
• Learn Days of the week, months, time phrases and
  questions.
• Money and How much is this?

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• Han Zi

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Writing Chinese Characters

• Many believe writing was invented in China
  during the 2nd millennium BC and it was not
  introduced by other peoples.
• Characters were first found 1500-950 BC (Shang
  Dynasty) on bones and shells.

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• Each character represents a syllable of spoken
  Chinese and also has a meaning.
• Many characters are combinations of more than one
  character.
• The largest Chinese dictionaries contain 56,000
  characters.
• If you learn 50,000 you can read a newspaper!

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Just Jokin with ya!

• If one is able to read 3,000 characters they can
  read a newspaper.
• 6,ooo and one will be able to read ancient
  Chinese literature and Classical Chinese.

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Types of Chinese characters

• Pictures
• Orginally pictures of things, but over the past
  5,000 years they have become more simple and
  stylish.

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Symbols

• The character is a picture of an idea. Some more
  obvious than others.

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Sound-loans

• Chinese has 1,700 possible syllables. English
  has over 8,000. Because of this, Chinese has
  many homophones.
• Some characters loan their sound to another word,
  so they sound the same but have different
  meanings (the definition of a homophone). You
  can find the character who loans his sound in
  other characters and determine how to say the
  character.

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Chinese Tongue Twister

• Chinese Linguist Zhao Yuan Ren took this twister
  to the extreme.
• When others were advocating switching to phonetic
  script he wrote this poem, to show how rediculous
  it would be.
• This poem only uses the word shi. Reading it in
  its pinyin form it is nearly impossible to
  understand.

shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3shi2 shi4 shi1 shi4 shi1 shi4, shi4 shi1, shi4 shi2 shi2 shi1.shi4 shi2 shi2 shi4 shi4 shi4 shi1. shi2 shi2, shi4 shi2 shi1 shi4 shi4.shi4 shi2, shi4 shi1 shi4 shi4 shi4 shi4.shi4 shi4 shi4 shi2 shi1, shi4 shi3 shi4, shi3 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi4 shi4.shi4 shi2 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi1, shi4 shi2 shi4.shi2 shi4, shi1, shi4 shi3 shi4 shi4 shi2 shi4. shi2 shi4 shi4, shi4 shi3 shi4 shi2 shi2 shi1 shi1.shi2 shi2, shi3 shi4 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi1, shi2 shi2 shi2 shi1 shi1.shi4 shi4 shi4 shi4













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Now this makes sense, doesnt it?

• ????? ??????, ??,????.???????. ??,?????.??,??????.
  ?????,???,??????.??????, ???.???,
  ??????.???,???????.??, ?????, ?????.????.

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Sound-meaning compounds

• These characters make up about 90 of all Chinese
  characters and have 2 parts. The first part
  gives you a hint at the meaning the other a hint
  to the sound, even though the sound may not be
  identical.
• ?bao1 to wrap or hold ?bao4 1st is yu 2nd
  is baosalty fish?First suggests meaning 2nd
  suggests sound.

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Meaning-meaning compounds

• Two characters are put together to give meaning
  to the new character they create.
• ?woman ?child ?good

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Reclarified compounds

• Sometimes two words have the same character.
  Ancient scribes added to characters so that they
  could be told apart.
• Have a lookie here. Both of these characters are
  pronounced ting2 but have a slight difference in
  meaning.
• ?kings court ? ?court in
  ordinary persons front yard

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Consider This

• There are 13 different dialects of Chinese.
• While these people cannot speak to one another,
  they all can communicate by writing.
• If you study hard, young ones, you will be able
  to communicate by script in 13 different
  languages!
• To switch to the pinyin system would DESTROY
  this awesome ability.

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So, how do you write these babies?

• Chinese characters are written with the following
  twelve basic strokes

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And now for the Rules
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A few more things to remember.

• All characters must be uniform in size
• Good bad
• ???? ????
• There are no spaces between characters.

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Start with the basics- NUMBERS

• Yi1 ?1 er2 ? 2
• San3 ? 3 si4 ?4
• Wu3 ? 5 liu4? 6

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NUMBERS

• Qi1?7 ba1?8
• Jiu3 ?9 shi2?10
• Bai3?100 ling2?0

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Numbers

• ?? ?? ??
• ??? ??? ???
• ??? ??? ???
• ?? ?? ??

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Days of the week ??

• Xing1 Qi1??week number
• Monday xing qi yi Tuesday xing qi er
• ??? ???
• Wednesday xing qi san ???
• Thursday xing qi si ???
• Friday xing qi wu Saturday xing qi liu
• ??? ???
• Sunday xing qi tian1 ??? ?day

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Months of the Year? YuE4 month

• Januaryyi yue ?? Februaryer yue ??
• Marchsan yue ?? Aprilsi yue ??
• Maywu yue ?? Juneliu yue ??
• Julyqi yue ?? Augustba yue ??
• Septemberjiu yue ??
• Octobershi yue ??
• Novembershi yi yue ???
• Decembershi er yue ???

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Nouns relating to time

• Today jin1 tian1 ??
• Tomorrow ming2 tian1 ??
• Yesterday zuo2 tian1 ??
• Next week xia4 ge xing1 qi1 ????
• Last week shang4 ge xing1 qi1 ????
• Next month xia4 ge yue4 ???
• Last month shang4 ge yue4 ???
• Now xian4 zai4 ??

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Questions regarding time

• ???????Jin1 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji3?
• ???????Ming2 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji 3?
• ???????Zuo2 tian1 shi4 xing1 qi1 ji3?
• ??????Jin1 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4?
• ??????Ming2 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4?
• ??????Zuo2 tian1 shi4 ji3 hao4?
• ??????Xian4 zai4 shi4 ji3 yue4?

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Questions in English

• What day is today?
• What day is tomorrow?
• What day was yesterday?
• What is todays date?
• What is tomorrows date?
• What was yesterdays date?
• What month is it now?

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What time is it?

• Ji2 dian3 le? ????
• Its 825
• Xian4 zai4 ba1 dian3 er2 shi2 wu3
• ???????
• ?oclock ?minute
• Now you answer
• 1045 217 356 900 1122 605

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How much is it?

• ???? Duo1 Shao Qian2
• 1.50 ?dollarsyuan
• ????
• Yi1 Yuan2 Wu3 Jiao3
• ??? ???? ???? ???
• 3.70 4.30 12.60

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Work for Today

• On dry erase boards practice writing your
  numbers.
• On a piece of construction paper you will let the
  world see your calligraphy skills.
• Make it beautiful or ugly, but make it yours!!
• Get your homework Handout from Luo laoshi.