Chinese Summer School blog

Final Vocabulary Sheet

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

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 2 - More practice

Here's another chance to practise your newly acquired Chinese skills. See if you can answer any of these questions. Remember you can use Chinese characters, pinyin with accents or pinyin with numbers!

1. 你叫什么？ nǐ jiào shénme?
2. 你好吗？ nǐ hǎo ma?
3. 你是哪国人？ nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?
4. 你会说普通话吗？ nǐ huì shuō pǔ tōng huà ma?
5. 你的电话号码是多少? nǐ de diàn huà hào mǎ shì duō shǎo?
6. 你多大？ nǐ duō dà? 你多大？
7. 你住在哪儿? nǐ zhù zai nàr?

That should keep you going! By the way, remember that in question 5 you shouldn't give the actual answer!

Day 2 - Podcast

Access today's listening below:

High quality mp3 (for broadband - 11.8mb)
Low quality mp3 (for dialup - 2.4mb)

Sorry these files are a bit big today - they're quite long because of all the numbers we did today.

Day 2 - Days and months

To access the audio files for numbers, days and months, use the following links:
Download Days and Months.mp3

Day 2 - Topic 7

Our final topic today was talking about our families. We learned about the Chinese family and about younger brothers and older sisters and how having more than one brother can make things a bit complicated in terms of language!

Day 2 - Topic 6

One of the most important things you need to do when you're introducing yourself is say where you live.

Day 2 - Topic 5

We also learned to talk about ages today: asking how old people are, and talking about birthdays.

Day 2 - Topic 4

We've just learned how to ask people for their phone numbers. Click "Continue reading" to read more.