Friday, March 8, 2013

Final Week of 102

你好!
这是我的最后一周,中国102. 这学期我学到了很多东西. This past week has been all about reviewing our Hanzi from lessons eight to twelve, I really enjoyed being able to see my progress with Hanzi recognition from the past lessons, while reviewing. 我们看到的是中国电影 "Shanghai Calling" and it was really good! 


SHANGHAI CALLING is a romantic comedy about modern-day American immigrants in an unfamiliar land.  When an ambitious New York attorney is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could spell the end of his career.   But with help from a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected foreign businessman, a clever but unassuming journalist, and a street-smart assistant, Sam might just save his job, discover romance, and learn to appreciate the many wonders Shanghai has to offer. (http://shanghaicalling.com/synopsis/). I think the most important thing that I learned after watching this movie is about Sam's experience with cultural barriers and differences, and how he went to China in the beginning almost hesitant and reluctant to accept the differences. But in the end, it was very rewarding for him, he found the love of his life, a great job, and it all worked out. So the moral of the movie, is to open your eyes to new experiences, and it could possibly change your life forever.


102 was a very fun and interesting course! Although this will be the last course of Chinese for me, I have learned a lot about myself as a person, and fully hope to take more courses sometime in my life, in the future!

再见!

可你

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Week 9 Corrections



这个星期,我学到第13课。第13课 was about shopping and clothing! It also was about bargaining. Here is an example of a bartering situation (砍价)。

句子
A: 一张碟多少钱?
B: 一张二十块。
A: 太贵了。便宜点儿。行吗?
B: 那。。。。一张十五。
A: 再便宜点儿! 一张五块,怎么样? 我要十张。
B: 好吧。
A: 有美国电影吗?
B: 有美国电影,中国电影,老电影,新电影都有。

Friday, March 1, 2013

Week 9

你好!

這一周,我學習第13課. 第13課 about shopping and clothing! It also was about bargaining. Here is an example of a bartering situation (看价)。

A: 一涨跌多少钱?
B: 一张二十块。
A: 太贵了。便宜点儿。青马?
B: 那。。。。一张十五。
A: 再便宜点儿! 一张五块,怎么样? 我要十张。
B: 好吧。
A: 有美国电影吗?
B: 有美国电影,中国电影,老电影,性电影没有。

Bartering is especially useful in China so that you can get your goods cheaper, so this lesson is very useful! We also learned some colors(颜色): 黑色,蓝色,红色,黄色,咖啡色,金黄色,银灰色,紫色,橘色。These are very helpful when you are trying to describe an item of clothing that you want or are looking for to the sales person or clerk.

再见!

可你

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Week 8

你好!

This week was a review week for us, where we reviewed everything from Lesson 12 all the way to Lesson 8. For homework, we have recently signed up with mychineselab.com, it is an awesome experience where we can go on and do listening exercises to help review, there is an online e-book that we can use to help us, as well as, other awesome activities to preview for new lessons! Some of the sentences we reviewed from the different chapters were:

我可以上你的骒马?
每周那天你有课?
我上文你的可很难?
服务员,我要一杯冰水。
小姐,我要点菜。
一万汤。
两双筷子。
十个骄子。

Overall, I think that the checkups and listening excercises helped me a lot this week to remember the stuff we had just learned, as well as, learned in the past. I look forward to working with mychineselab more often!!

再见!

可你

Friday, February 15, 2013

Week 7

我们一起跟被把!(Let's toast together!)
I have officially survived Week 7, which is all about making requests! Lesson 12 delves into a bunch of different questions relating to requests that you could ask someone. It also explains the term "optative verbs" which in this case are verbs that express wishes or hopes and are placed before the main verb to express wishes, desires, obligations, capabilities, possibilities, or to give permission.

要,想,应该,得,能,可以,会

yao- want, will, to be going to, have to, should

xiang- want, intend, would like to

yinggai- should, ought to, to be supposed to

dei- have to, to be required to

neng- to have to ability to, can, can (depending on circumstances), permission-may

keyi- permission-may, can (depending on circumstances)

hui-know how to, have the ability to, be likely to, will

we also learned some of the following phrases:

怎么说。。。
中文怎么说。。。
请说译本(一次)。。。
轻慢嗲日说。。。

我可以接你的车?
我有一辆车。

Friday in class we worked on our script discussing how to convince someone to let you use their car! It was really fun and funny too!

在见!


Friday, February 8, 2013

Week 6

你好!

I'm really hungry as I am writing this post, specifically due to the fact that Lesson 11 that we learned this week completely deals with how to order food at a restaurant, and the different types of food and drinks! I really enjoyed learning this lesson because it was interesting to finally have something to be able to use in my personal life when I go to a Chinese restaurant. Now, I will be able to order my meal completely in Chinese! What a cool thought:)

Here is an example dialogue that shows how a typical restaurant conversation might look:


请问,几位?
三位。
好,请跟我来。请坐。
谢谢!
小姐,先生,请问,你们想先和点什么?
我喜欢喝茶。
你要红茶还是路茶?
我要一本并红茶。
我要已被水
我要一瓶可乐。
好,已被并红茶,一杯水,一瓶可乐。请等一下。
对了,你们喜欢吃饭还是吃面?
我都喜欢。
我想吃饺子。
这是您的并红茶,水,还有可乐。
你们要点菜马?
好,我们点一盘超凡,一盘炒面和二十个饺子吧。
我们还要三碗汤。 对了,我们也要三双侉子,谢谢!

Friday, in class we performed our skits that we had to memorize which included a dialogue between a hostess, a waiter, and a couple on their first date, as well as, a narrator. The situation was that the couple was on their first date and the hostess seats them at the Chinese Restaurant. However, the waiter gives them very bad service and so they have to deal with that. Overall, I would say that the class did very well!

再见!

可你

Friday, February 1, 2013

Week 5

你好马!

This past week has been midterm week, so we have been reviewing all of our previous vocab from lessons in the past. It has been really fun though because we have done different exercises and games to   help us! My favorite one was the one we did on Friday, I learned a lot while also having fun at the same time! Here are some of the various sentence structures and words I reviewed and learned this week!

我来晚了。( I am late) Wo lai wan le.
祝好!(Wish you the best!) Zhu hao!
电子邮件 (Email address) dianzi you jian
你有空马?(are you free?) Ni you kong ma?
第一字约会 (first date) di yi zi yue hui.

你要不要留言?(Do you want to leave a message?) ni yaobuyao liuyan?
青塔回来以后给我打电话。(please have him return my call) (after). qing ta hui lai yi hou gei wo da dianhua.
你们作弊。(Nimen zuo bi!) You are cheating!

在见!

爱肯你

Friday, January 25, 2013

Midterm Project


By 席慕容/Hsi Mu-jung

Translation: Lucidus

:藤蝉 叶子

Narrator by Chan Teng and Leaf

如何你遇


在我最美


How to bring me to your attention

At the most beautiful moment of mine
为这


我已在佛前求了五百年


求佛们结一段尘缘


佛於是把我化做一棵


在你必的路旁


For this
I have prayed for five hundred years before Buddha


For a chance of worldly union with you


And Buddha turned me into a tree


Growing by the road of your journey
阳光下
慎重地开了花


朵朵都是我前世的盼望


In the sunshine


In full and careful blossoms


With every flower representing hope from my past life
当你走近



抖的叶
是我等待的


As you get closer


Please listen carefully


To trembles of the leaves


which are the enthusiasm of my expectation
而当你於无地走


在你身后落了一地的


朋友啊


那不是花瓣


那是我凋零的心


When you finally walk past, heedlessly


Falling behind you


My friend


Are not petals


But the withered heart of mine

Pinyin

rúhé ràng nǐ yùjiàn wǒ 
 


zài wǒ zuì měilì de/dí/dì shíkè
wèi/wéi zhè 
 


wǒ yǐ zài fó/fú qián qiú liǎo/le wǔbǎi nián 
 


qiú fó/fú ràng wǒmen jié/jiē yī duàn chén yuán 
 


fó/fú wū shì bǎ/bà wǒ huà/huā zuò yī kē shù 
 


zhǎng zài nǐ bì jīng de/dí/dì lù páng 

yángguāng xià

shènzhòng de/dì kāi mǎn liǎo/le huā 
 


duǒ duǒ dōu/dū shì wǒ qián shì de/dí/dì pànwàng
dāng/dàng nǐ zǒu jìn

qǐng nǐ xì tìng/tīng 
 


nǎ/nà chàndǒu de/dí/dì yè 


shì wǒ děngdài de/dí/dì rèqíng
ér dāng/dàng nǐ zhōng wū wúshì de/dì zǒu guò 
 


zài nǐ shēn hòu là/luò/lào liǎo/le yī de/dì de


péngyou ā/á/ǎ/à/a 
 


nǎ/nà bùshi huābàn 
 


nǎ/nà shì wǒ diāo líng de/dí/dì xīn 
 


Week 4

你好!

This week we have started to learn all about Time and Schedules. On Monday we had a check up over some of the various vocabulary we have started to learn such as: 起床,每天,半,大学,省后,学期,门,点,睡觉,才,刻,然后,图书馆,下午,喜欢,打球,写信。These are all expressions discussing time and college life, their English meanings are as follows: to get up, every day, half, college, life, semester, (measure word for school courses), o'clock, to go to bed, not until, a quarter (of an hour), then/after that/afterwords, library, afternoon, to like, to play basketball/badminton/tennis/table tennis, to write letter. I liked learning a lot about this lesson because it helped me with the previous lesson on learning more about how to talk on the phone and make appointments.

Wednesday in class, we discussed the International Festival that we have coming up on this Sunday, January 27, 2012. I am in charge of the Marketing sector for Chinese club, so for this event I am going to be taking photos of the different things that our club will be participating in, as well as manning the booth and I also created business cards that we will be able to pass out to the different visitors. In class, we played a review game on sentence structures and the proper order in which the nouns and verbs should be placed in the Chinese Language.

People, Time, Place, V

Friday, in class, we discussed the International festival in more depth and then had our speaking checkup! I had to say the following things by memorization: 我很忙,我今天八点起床,然后我迟早反,我正在看电视,我试点睡觉。


I am also continuing working on my Chinese script for my midterm project. Here we are repeating after a native speaker so that we can increase our pronunciation and anunciation of the tones in the Chinese Language. I have chosen a very beautiful poem called A Flowering Tree to repeat as my project, and have already developed the script it should be fun!

再见!

爱刻你

Friday, January 18, 2013

Week 3

你好马!

这是Ke Ni. This past week Monday, we started Lesson 9 on Phone calls, which entails things like, how to answer the phone, ask who's there, and to ask what someone is doing. For example:
你 在做什么?
我在上网。

你在忙马?
没有,我正在看电视呢。

请问您是那位?
我是爱文。
We took a check up on some of the vocab Hanzi, and beginning sentence structures and that wasn't too bad, however, I still need to work on some of my Hanzi recognition. I am trying really hard in 102, I just think that the difference between 101 and 102 is that the Hanzi recognition is more necessary than in 101 where we used mostly pinyin...so it is harder to get used to only using Hanzi and not relying solely on the pinyin for understanding.

Wednesday in class, we reviewed some of the sentence structures we have been learning. We also reviewed the V不V sentence structure: 在不在,是不是,对不对。Also, we talked about how to format the sentences for, Call me Okay? 给我打电话,怎么样? How to say slow down: 对不起, 请满点。We also learned how to have a conversation on the phone:

位,请问你是了老师马?
我是_______.
你忙马?
你有什么摄入马?
你正在做什么摄入马?
明天,给我吃饭,怎么样?
我的手机号码是_____________.
请下课以后给我打电话。

Friday, we learned how to talk on the phone some more, and call and ask someone if they were available for dinner! We had to practice with our 同伴, saying back and for a dialogue that allowed us to understand what time we would go to dinner, if they were busy, and who we were talking too! It was really fun and funny when the boys had to call 了老师。Also, we got our packets back and I need to work on my V不V sentences some more. A few practice examples are: 他的两个时候都是不是美国人。我们太一起去纽约,怎么样?

Overall, it has been a great week! I really enjoyed learning about how to answer the phone and talk to people about making appointments and whether or not they were busy. That is very useful information that can be applied to real life, and it will be beneficial in the long run!:)

再见!

Ke Ni

Friday, January 11, 2013

Week 2

你好!

On Monday, we had a vocab check up that tested us on some of the vocab from lesson eight as well as some of the new sentence structures we have learned! I quickly learned that Chinese 102 is not as easy as Chinese 101, and that I need to study more for the quizzes. I got confused by some of the Hanzi:(
After that, we practiced the new sentence structure we learned using the V不V, for example, 是不是,有不没有。In Chinese the double negatives cancel out and make a positive when asking a question so that it can be a positive statement! I thought that was very interesting. We also played a game where myself, and three other opponents competed to see who could come up with the most sentences using the double negative structure, and I won! I was really excited about that. Some of the vocab that we learned for this week was: 认识,去, 上课,下课,以后,想,吃,饭,吃饭,今天,下次,怎么样,再见。

On Wednesday, we reviewed in the beginning some of the terms from section 8 and then took another check up quiz. I thought this one was a little bit easier than the one we recieved on Monday, however, it was still difficult. I am hoping the more I practice, the more I will retain and remember. We also learned that if you add 吧 to the end of most sentences it creates a question! I thought that was also another interesting fact to know. It makes it easier when you are creating sentences to know that that is a key word you can add to create a important sentence!

Friday, we learned more about what to expect when doing your blog posts, as well as dialogue back and forth about how to make an appointment. It was fun because we had to create a situation between our partners (there were three of us) between a dad, boyfriend, and girlfriend, and the boyfriend was asking the father's permission to take the girl out. Naturally, I was the boyfriend so it was really funny to write.

Overall, it was a difficult week, but worth it! I am definitely adjusting back to being in Chinese again after the long break, and look forward to what the term has in store! Also I have been attempting to learn how to play 对不起, on the guitar!

再见!

Courtney

Friday, January 4, 2013

Week One- Chinese 102

你好吗!

I am officially in Chinese 102 now! That's right everyone, I have graduated from Chinese 101...I made it through! This is our first week back to school from break, and I must admit I am a little rusty on all of my hanzi characters...but it will all be okay! Since we only had three days of school this week (or two days of chinese class) we only had time to really review the first seven sections we had learned in Chinese 101 and then briefly touch on some of the new words in Lesson 8.

An example of some of the characters and sentences we reviewed were:

我的家有三口人。我的爸爸,妈妈,和我。我的爸爸,妈妈都是商人。

请问,( insert noun/place/thing here )在那人。

有点贵。

For homework, I had to do the hanzi grid sheet as well as sentence structures for Lesson 8! I'm excited to see what Chinese 102 has in store for me, and look forward to bettering my language speaking abilities!!

再见!

Courtney