Chinese Summer School blog

Day 1 Podcast

Access today's listening below:

High quality mp3 (for broadband - 6.9mb)
Low quality mp3 (for dialup - 1.7mb)

Today's photos

Well folks, what did you think of today's lesson? How did it go for you? We hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot. Leave some comments on what you enjoyed and if you think you're going to enjoy learning Chinese!

Oh, and you may be interested in today's photos!

Day 1 Homework

We've already spoken about your homework, but here's a reminder. To complete today's learning you should write a short introduction along the lines of "Hello, my name is X. I'm Scottish", etc., adding in any other information you know.

You can post in Chinese, Pinyin with accents, or Pinyin with numbers, eg:

我是苏格兰人。
wǒ shì sū gé lán rén.
wo3 shi4 su1 ge2 lan2 ren2.

Don't forget to do your character writing homework too!

Day 1 Test 1

Test your knowledge of the words and phrases included in today's lesson here. In each case translate the phrase in Chinese into English, or the English phrase into Chinese. To complete the quiz, click on "Continue reading" below.

Day 1 - Topic 4

Numbers time! Here's a recording of the class repeating the numbers: Download Day1_Numbers.mp3

Day 1 - Topic 3

It's important to be able to cope in situations where you don't fully understand things. We've been learning how to cope this afternoon with language difficulties.

Day 1 - Topic 2

Moving on, we learned to give more information about other people. Again, to see the vocabulary, click on "Continue Reading" below.

Day 1 - Topic 1

Day 1 has begun! We're blogging live from the class and this morning we've been working on introductions, talking about ourselves and about other people. We've also learned how to ask the question "how are you?" and learned various responses.

To see the vocabulary for this morning's lesson, click on "Continue Reading".