Lesson 8: Family 1.

Let’s go with another vocabulary listing. This time it is the turn for the near family, very near family. 

After a hard investigation I have reached the conclusion that knowing all the names for chinese relatives is nearly impossible. Your brother-in-law’s brother’s cousin will probably have an especific word which will depend for sure if he is married to your elder sister or your younger sister or even if the cousin belongs to the mother’s family or the father’s one. And of course, if this is not diffiult enough, you will always have a formal and an informal way to say it. 

About writing characters.

Remember I am a new chinese student. I do my best with chinese writing. If you want to widen your information, here you have some flash web pages:

Lesson 7: Greetings.

Well, let’s begin interaction with chinese world.

What are the different ways of greet among chinese population?

• To say hello: 你好 / Nǐ hǎo/

This is the base form, but you must change the pronouns depending on the receiver. So, we have:

Some notes about viewing.

Someone has told me that he can't see chinese characters in the posts. This must be because he hasn't got chinese language installed in the computer.

Lesson 5: nationalities and languages 1.

Memorizing, memorizing, memorizing…

Let’s go with countries, nationalities and languages.

As writing is so difficult and in order not to overwhelm us, I have just included a few countries. In fact, in classes we have only learnt Spain, China, England and Germany, but I have added a couple more: France and USA.

Relax

Well, memorising all this feds me up so let’s make a break and chat.

I suppose you have realised that all the materials in this blog are ordered in five different topics. If you have a closer look page numbers are correlative and it forms four different books:

Lesson 6: Mustknow.

It is now the turn for these completely necessary words in any language. In an occidental language this would not be the topic for one lesson, but with Chinese… we have to resign.

Those mustknow that I mean are: yes, no, thanks, please….

Lesson 4: pronouns.

Let’s begin with something a bit more difficult: subject and object pronouns.

In Chinese they use the same form for the subject pronoum and the object pronoun.