Week 4

Ni hao!

Well, week four has been quite the busy week for many students including myself here at NCC, but we learned a lot of interesting things in Chinese this past week!

For starters, on Monday we began the class with a checkup on the new vocabulary of Chapter Three. Chapter three deals with learning about languages, nationalities, and countries, and the asking of how and where someone might be from, for example. After the checkup, we began to learn some of our classmates names, that way we will be able to identify them when they are talking, and be able to relate to them in class. After we learned some of those, we moved on to the hanzi of Chapter three. During this time we went over the radicals such as wei, kou, nu, ren, and you, and used these radicals to help put together characters from the chapter such as shou, gou, & duile.

In Wednesday's class we took another checkup on pinyin of the other classmates names, as well as as the unscrambling of hanzi, that included questions such as "What is your name?" "Which country's people are you?", "What language do you speak?", and "Who is your classmate?". After that we went on to discuss different oral dialogues back and forth, asking "What language do you speak?" - "Ni shou shenme yu yan?" and "What country are you from?" - "Ni shi na guo ren?"

Today, in Friday's class, we started with radicals and formed some words that we had worked on previously. After that, we worked on a dialogue back and forth with our partners, taking turns asking "Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" and "Ni shi xuesheng ma?", and lastly, "Ni shou shenme yu yan?"


Friday after class, I went to the moon cake festival and that was alot of fun, it was interesting to learn that part of culture of Chinese! Hopefully week five will be a little less hectic!

Zai Jian!

Ai Ke Ni
"Courtney"