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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for Beginners

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Course 1 of 4 in the Specialization Learn Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese 1: Chinese for beginners is a beginner's course of Mandarin Chinese. It uses lectures, short plays, interactive exercises and cultural tips to help learners build a fundamental capability of oral Chinese in real-life situations. At the end of the 5-week course, the learners will reach the following proficiency: ♦ 150 words ♦ 20 language points ♦ handling 5 real-life situations This is a beginners' course, therefore no prerequisite is required.

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Lesson 3：Nǐ mǎi shénme? 你买什么？ What do you want to buy? Part 1

Learning how to talk about money; Learning the expressions used in shopping

Nǐ mǎi shénme ？你买什么？ What do you want to buy?9:35

Introduction to phonetics 3 语音入门 32:40

Meet the Instructors

Wang Jun
Associate Professor
School of Humanities
An Na
Ph.D., Lecturer
School of Humanities, SJTU

[音乐] 大家好，欢迎来到你好中文。

Hello everyone, welcome back to Hello Chinese.

[音乐] Last course,

we learned how to express months and dates.

Do you remember the vocabulary about numbers, days of week and months?

Today, we are going to learn how to talk about family and ages.

Let's talk about family members first.

爸爸爸爸。

妈妈妈妈。

哥哥哥哥。

弟弟弟弟。

我我。

How many people are in your family?

你家有几口人？你家有

几口人？家 means family in this question.

几口人 means how many people.

你家有几口人？ asks

the question how many people are in your family.

[空白_录音] The format

of the response is taken from question

我家有五口人。

我家有

五口人。

[音乐] Five

people are in my family.

Who are your family members?

who means 谁。

Your family means 你家。

你家有谁？你家

有谁？The response to this question

can be 我家有爸爸

妈妈、哥哥

弟弟和我。

我家有爸爸、

妈妈哥哥、弟弟和我。

你有姐姐吗？ Do

you have an older sister?

你有姐姐吗？你有 is you have.

姐姐 is older sister.

吗 is used at the end of the sentence to turn the sentence into a question.

I don't have an older sister.

我没有姐姐。

我没有

姐姐。

没有 is the negative form of 有。

没有 means don't have.

你有姐姐吗？

我没有姐姐。

And now, we will learn to ask about how old someone is.

你弟弟多大？

你弟弟

多大？弟弟

means younger brother.

多 on its own means much or many.

大 means big.

And put together, 多大 means how old.

How old is your younger brother?

你弟弟多大？ If your younger brother is 15 years old.

The response to this question is 我弟弟十五岁。

我弟弟

十五岁。

[空白_录音] In

today's episode, Li Jia talks about family with Mark.

Let's check out the clip.

>> 李佳，你家有几口人？>> 我家有四口人。

>> 你家有哪些人？>> 我家有爸爸、妈妈、哥哥和我。

你家有谁？>> 我家有爸爸、妈妈弟弟，我没有哥哥。 >> 你弟弟多大？

>> 我弟弟十五岁。

>> We'll watch the clip a second time, so

we can repeat the lines used in the episode.

>> 李佳，你家有几口人？

>> 我家有四口人。

[空白_录音]

>> 你家有哪些人？

>> 我家有爸爸、妈妈、

哥哥和我。

你家有谁？

>> 我家有爸爸、妈妈、弟弟，

我没有哥哥。

>> 你弟弟多大？

>> 我弟弟十五岁。

Through today's

episode we have learned vocabulary and phrases relaed to family and age.

I hope you all had fun.

Don't forget to do the quiz in the next section.

See you all next time.

谢谢，再见。

[音乐]

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