Bài 02 - Ngữ âm, Cảm ơn

Written by Administrator on 19 October 2008.

Pinyin pronunciation, rules of phonetic spelling, retroflex final.
Vocabulary : I'm sorry, Thank you, See you tomorrow.

Rules of phonetic spelling

1	zi ci si	=	z c s
2	zhi chi shi	=	zh ch sh
3	ju jue juan jun qu que quan qun xu xue xuan xun	= = =	jü jüe jüan jün qü qüe qüan qün xü xüe xüan xün
4	yu yue yuan yun	=	ü üe üan ün
5	ya ye yao you yan yin ying yang yong	= = =	ia ie iao iou ian in ing iang iong
6	wu wa wo wai wei wan wen wang weng	= = =	u ua uo uai uei uan uen uang ueng

Sound discrimination

1	bo po	ba pa	bi pi
2	de te	da ta	di ti
3	ge ke	ge ka	gu ku
4	ji qi	jia qia	jiu qiu
5	zi ci	za ca	ze ce
6	zhi chi	zha cha	zhe che
7	yin ying	lin ling	jin jing
8	yan yang	gan gang	kan kang
9	gen geng	men meng	fen feng

Tone drills

bā bá bǎ bà	bū bú bǔ bù
kē ké kě kè	qī qí qǐ qì
xiē xié xiě xiè	mēi méi měi mèi
guān guán guǎn guàn	xī xí xǐ xì
duī duí duǐ duì	mīng míng mǐng mìng
tiān tián tiǎn tiàn	yī yí yǐ yì
huī huí huǐ huì	xiū xiú xiǔ xiù

Neutral tone

In Chinese there are a number of syllabes wich are unstressed and take a feeble tone. This is known as the neutral tone wich is shown by the absence of tone-graph.

māma 妈妈 : mum	àiren 爱人 : husband, wife
bàba 爸爸 : dad	háizi 孩子 : child, children
gēge 哥哥 : elder brother	guānxi 关系 : relation
dìdi 弟弟 : younger brother	xièxie 谢谢 : thank you
jiějie 姐姐 : elder sister	kèqi 客气 : polite
mèimei 妹妹 : younger sister	xiūxi 休息 : have a rest

Calligraphy exercices (Click on the character for details)

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Retroflex final

The final 儿 "er" is sometimes attached to another final to form a retroflex final and when thus used, it is no longer an independent syllable. A retroflex final is represented by the letter "r" added to the final.

huì + er -> huìr	yíhuìr 一会儿 : a moment
diǎn + er -> diǎnr	yìdiǎnr 一点儿 : a little
nǎ + er -> nǎr	naǎr 哪儿 : where
zhè + er -> zhèr	zhèr 这儿 : there

Conversation

-	Duì 对 bù 不 qǐ 起 ! ！

-	Méi 没 guānxi 关系 ! ！


-	Xièxie 谢谢 ! ！

-	Bú 不 kèqi 客气 ! ！


-	Míngtiān 明天 ! jiàn 见 ! ！

-	xiū xi 休息 yí huìr 一会儿 ! ！

-	hǎo 好 ba 吧 ! ！

对不起	Duì bù qǐ		I'm sorry!
没	méi	(adv)	not
关系	guānxi	(n)	relation
没关系	Méi guānxi!		That's all right
谢谢	Xièxie		Thank you !
不	bú	(adv)	not
客气	kèqi	(adj)	polite
不客气！	Bú kèqi !		You're welcome !
明天	míngtiān	(adv)	tomorrow
见	jiàn	(v)	see
明天见！	Míngtiān jiàn!		See you tomorrow!
休息	xiūxi	(v)	have a rest
一会儿	yíhuìr	(n)	a moment
休息一会儿！	xiūxi yíhuìr!		Have a rest!
好	hǎo	(adj)	good
好吧！	hǎo ba		All right!