After some exciting first steps in Chinese and feeling myself rise to mount stupid in the Dunning-Kruger curve, I also realise there is a long road ahead. Although I have a lot of fun designing the flashcard system and using it to review and prepare my lessons, conversation is still a long way. I would like to get there asap, as being able to speak Chinese continuously will be a snowball effect. Grateful for the lessons learned today, and my strict but very helpful 老师！
Takeaways and lessons learned
- The pronounciation of the “r” comes from your throat, but without vibration. Examples include 人 (human). I myself have the idea that the tongue lightly vibrates, judging from the pronunciation.
- The word 的 (de) makes a pronoun posessive (你的 = yours)
- The sentence “轮到我了” literally means something like “The wheel arrived by me”, thus “My turn”.
Words learned
| Hanzi | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 天气 | tiān qì | weather |
| 忙 | máng | busy |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today |
| 村庄 | cūn zhuāng | village |
| 喜欢 | xǐ huan | like / love |
| 看书 | kàn shū | read books |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many / much / a lot of |
| 都可以 | dōu kě yǐ | anything is okay / all are okay |
| 当然 | dāng rán | of course / certainly |
Preparation for lesson 3
Assignment:
- Video 6-7 Little Fox Chinese.
- 3 questions
| Q (Chinese) | Q (Pinyin) | Q (English) | A (Chinese) | A (Pinyin) | A (English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|