Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Helping Videos

              I know that knowing how to pronounce each sound may be a little hard so here are some videos that can help you, achieve your Mandarin Chinese goal.
This is a cute video teaching you how to say a tone, this video is courtesy of crazyhunyu:
This video is going to help you hear and repeat the numbers 0-10, this video is courtesy of narai09:
Hopefully learning how some of the tones sound you can be able to do the useful phrases, if not please leave a comment below and I will find videos to help you out.
zài jiàn! 再見-Good bye!

Monday, June 4, 2012

Mandarin Chinese Test prep 1 (useful phrases)

The last part that we are going to go over is the Useful Phrases, there is many useful phrases that we will learn but I will break them up into sections. The Useful Phrases part of this prep will have phrases or words that you will be able to use. They would include greetings, response, questions, and general conversation things.
For the useful phrases we are going to learn the Chinese translation first, before we learn the characters. To make sure that we get the phrase itself down pact, because that part will help us learn to communicate. Later on we will learn how to write them down using the characters.
*Remember to pay attention to the tone marks, it will help you pronounce it correctly.
Those are some general words/phrases that you can say

Mandarin Chinese Test prep 1 (Numbers)

Okay, lets continue with studying Mandarin Chinese. This post is about Mandarin numbers, learning them is probably one of the easiest in Mandarin to learn. At least I think it is, because once you have 0-10 understood you can understand the other numbers. See when you pass 10 all you are doing is putting the numbers together. But before I get you confused lets learn how to say 0-10 and how the characters look and how to write them.

As you can see that the characters are easier to learn and so are themselves.
**Remember the tone marks will help you say them better**

Mandarin Chinese Test prep 1(Intro,Tones)

       Mandarin Chinese is a very complex language. You have to know how to speak it correctly, know what the tones mark means, and recognize and be able to write the characters. Those are all of the things I will be able to help you with. Once you understand the language and know how to use it, Mandarin Chinese can be a lot of fun.
    Our first test will include all four tone marks, numbers through 0-10, and a couple of useful phrases. So in order to be ready for that test we need to learn them.
What you will learn will be under different titles, But on the bottom you will find the tones.
There are four tone marks:

 As you can see the different tone marks can mean different things, so need to make sure that you have your tones correct. You might say that the tones only matter when you write them down, but for example if you want to say replace and don't start high and fall, you could be saying body, lift, or kick. Just like when you talk to your friends you want to make sure that everything you say makes sense so your conversation can flow.
Practice saying all of them before you move on to the next part of Mandarin Chinese Test prep 1.