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中文暑期班 Chinese Summer School

Information about the PiE Chinese Summer School. Click Continue Reading for more details.

Final day recordings

Here are the recordings from the final day presentations.

Download zh-diane.mp3
Download zh-george.mp3
Download zh-lauren.mp3
Download zh-mark.mp3
Download zh-paulandfrancesca.mp3
Download zh-peter.mp3
Download zh-scottandeva.mp3

Enjoy!

Final Vocabulary Sheet

Here's the final Vocabulary list for our class - we hope you find it useful! Download Vocab-Final.pdf

Day 5 - Last day :(

I can't believe it's the final day already! Things have gone really well this week and we're together for our final day today. At the moment we're learning all the absolutely vital phrases for all young people in any language - 你有男朋友吗？"Do you have a boyfriend"...! More later.

Day 4 - Photos

Here are two photo galleries from today:

Gallery 1 - Ricefields and the Loon Fung
Gallery 2 - Tai Chi

Enjoy! Hopefully they're not too embarrassing!

Day 4 - What a brilliant day!

I think I'm speaking for everyone involved when I say that today was a really good day! Although we didn't do lots of language I think we learned loads today! Finding out about the Chinese Community in Scotland was really interesting and the story of the families who walked from China to Scotland were quite awe-inspiring.

The meal was absolutely fabulous! My favourite has to be the lamb, but the sweet and sour pork was a close second! It was great trying all the food and the company was great too!

I think my favourite part of the day though has to be the Tai Chi session. It was quite something watching Master Tang and I was well impressed with everyone's attempts! A million times better than my own as you'll probably see from the photos which I'm uploading at the moment!

What did you all think about today? Did you enjoy it? Tomorrow is our last day already - it seems like the week has gone by so quickly. Do you feel you've learned a lot? I hope so! Hopefully you've also enjoyed being with other people who are equally interested in Chinese.

Day 3 - Photos

You can see day 3 photos here. Enjoy!

Day 3 - Topic 2

We went on to learn about ordering food, in preparation for our visit to the Chinese restaurant tomorrow. Here are some useful phrases for ordering food and talking in a restaurant situation.

Day 3 - Topic 1

Sorry this is a bit late, folks! Today we've been learning about ordering food and drink in preparation for our visit to the Chinese restaurant tomorrow. Click "Continue Reading" to find out more.

Day 3 - Presentations

Today's brave students made their presentations this morning. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Writing 拼音 pīnyīn

Writing Chinese in pinyin using numbers can be quite tricky to read, so it may be a good idea to post as far as possible using the accents. 林凡 has suggested that it may be possible to open this rtf file in Word and then you can copy and paste the characters into the webpage. I hope this works and that it helps!