Unit 1
Part I: Listen and Learn 1
Click on the speaker icon of eachsentence and listen to the recording. The Chinese characters are in big5format.
Hello!
你好﹗
My last name is Xie.
我姓謝。
W
ji
oXi
Ti
nwi.
My full name is Xie Tianwei.
我叫謝天蔚。
- W sh
l
osh
.
I am a teacher.
我是老師。
- Zijin!
Good-bye!
再見﹗
Notes- For Pinyin (Romanized spelling system),please see the Learning Pronunciation Section of theLearning Chinese Online Page.
- Both "xng"and "jio"in Chinese are verbs. "Wxng..."means "I am surnamed..." The English sentence "My last name is Smith" wouldbe "Wo xing Smith."
- There is no articles before nouns inChinese. "I am a teacher." in English would be "Wsh losh."in Chinese
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