Mandarin

Mandarin Unit 1

Unit 1 Lesson 3 -learning new words

Multiple Choice

您 and 你

• they both mean "You"

• 你 is usually used for elders with respect

• there is no difference

• they have same pronunciation

Now, try your best to write numbers in Mandarin without looking at textbook or your note (using your hand, and write it in the air)

number 1 to 10

Today We are going to learn new words

1. take out your notebook
2. take out your playdoh (if you have it)

Radical：亻     Strokes：7

Pinyin & Definition:nǐ 

you 

Radical：心     Strokes：11

Pinyin & Definition: nín

you (polite)

Radical：女     Strokes：6

Pinyin & Definition: hǎo

good/well/proper/good to/easy to/very/so/(suffix indicating completion or readiness)hàoto be fond of

Radical：冂     Strokes：6 

Pinyin & Definition: zài 

again/once more/re-/second/another/then (after sth, and not until then)

Radical：见     Strokes：4

Pinyin & Definition: jiàn

to see/to meet/to appear (to be sth)/to interviewxiànappear

Radical：口     Strokes：5

Pinyin & Definition: jiào

to call/to yell/to order/to ask/to be called

Radical：亻     Strokes：4

Pinyin & Definition: shén

what

Radical：丿     Strokes：3 

Pinyin & Definition: me

suffix, used to form interrogative 什么, what?, indefinite 这么 thus 

Radical：口     Strokes：6

Pinyin & Definition: míng

name

Radical：宀     Strokes：6

Pinyin & Definition: zì

letter/symbol/character/word

Radical：丿     Strokes：7

Pinyin & Definition:wǒ

I/me/my

Radical：小     Strokes：3

Pinyin & Definition: xiǎo

small/tiny/few/young

Test on Friday (09/18)

 1. Oral Test (Speaking) 

2. Written Test on Schoology 

Radical：月     Strokes：4

Pinyin & Definition: yuè

moon/month

Radical：大     Strokes：3

Pinyin & Definition: dà 

big/huge/large/major/great/wide/deep/oldest

Radical：生     Strokes：5

Pinyin & Definition: shēng

to be born/to give birth/life/to grow