周末的功课

"Why do we live?" - Commercial

www.fluentu.com

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On the left side you will see a link to "favorites."  You'll find the clip there!

Strategies for Listening:
- watch once
- study vocabulary and watch again
- listen, adding pauses to study individual characters and sentences
- try to repeat the speech yourself
- listen until you know and understand

我们星期一的第一个活动是听写小考！

Sinosplice: Adjectives + Modifiers

卡片在这里! (Sinosplice Flashcards)

Exclamation Flashcards

复习: 看，考虑， 反思

Review: Read, Consider, Reflect.

Warm-Up Readings:

The Art of Being Corrected

Learn by Exaggerating: Slow then Fast, Big then Small

Tones are More Important Than You Think

Readings About Tones:

Tips On Tones

The Third Tone

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Before we talk about tones, we need to have an introduction to Chinese phonetics: the sounds of the language.  

Chinese Phonetics: Guiding Questions

What is pīn yīn ?

What are 3 essential parts of a syllable?

What are common initial sounds?  What are common final sounds?

Which are simple finals?  Which are compound?

Click HERE for a spoken version of the alphabet.

HERE: a video from YangYang that recaps some basic ideas about Chinese phonetics.

HERE: is an advanced chart of Chinese phonetics, including all possible sounds in this language.

HERE: advanced information on the rules of the Hanyu Pinyin system.


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STROKE  ORDER

1. Top before bottom


2. Left before right


These rules conflict whenever one stroke is to the bottom and left of another. Several additional rules resolve many of these conflicts.

3. Left vertical stroke (usually) before top horizontal stroke


4. Bottom horizontal stroke last



5. Center stroke before wings



6. Horizontal strokes before intersecting vertical strokes


7. Left-falling strokes before right-falling srokes


A final rule can contradict the others:

8. Minor strokes (often) last
 

Despite these conflicts between rules most students quickly acquire a natural feel for the proper stroke order.

Radical Order  -  Most Chinese characters are combinations of simpler, radical components. 

Usually the two parts are written at top and bottom

or left and right

so that the main two stroke order rules readily apply. Occasionally these rules also conflict with respect to components. 

When one component is at the bottom-left, and the other at the top-right, the top-right component is sometimes written first.


When there are several components, top components are written first.


These rules usually imply each component is written in its entirety before another component is written. 

Exceptions may arise when one component divides another,

encompasses another,

or the individual components are no longer discernible in modern writing.

(source: www.zhongwen.com)

Remember! most online dictionaries offer stroke order animations, so check there when you're not sure how to write a character.  

复习部首和发音

练习：

发音: Pronunciation 

部首: Radicals

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新学期！New School Year.

新学期，新开始，新希望！欢迎回来！
New year, new beginnings, new hopes!  Welcome back!