Harold Goodman ( - )
Male Person - United States language instructor and osteopathic physician
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- Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course 28 Sep 2007
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- Introduction. How to use this course. Background to Chinese 6:58 (28 Sep 2007)
- Tones in Chinese languages 3:03 (28 Sep 2007)
- Flat tone (green thumb out); zhōng ‘middle’ 4:01 (28 Sep 2007)
- Rising tone (blue finger up); rén ‘person’ 3:10 (28 Sep 2007)
- Falling and rising tone (red ‘V’ for victory); wǒ ‘I, me’ 4:40 (28 Sep 2007)
- Falling tone (black finger down); shì ‘to be’ 7:14 (28 Sep 2007)
- The form of the verb ‘to be’ in Chinese doesn’t change: shì (‘to be’) also means ‘am, are, is’; wǒ shì ‘I am’ 3:11 (28 Sep 2007)
- nǐ ‘you’; nǐ shì ‘you are’; the forms of Chinese verbs never change. No word for ‘a’ or ‘an’: wǒ shì rén ‘I am a person’. 2:37 (28 Sep 2007)
- guó ‘kingdom, nation’; zhōng guó ‘middle kingdom’ = China; zhōng guó rén ‘middle kingdom person’ = Chinese (person) 5:00 (28 Sep 2007)
- tā ‘he, him, she, her, it’; dōu ‘both, all’; hé ‘and’; position of doū ‘both, all’ in Mandarin sentences: ‘You and he both are Chinese’, not ‘are both’, as in English. 4:57 (28 Sep 2007)
- měi ‘beautiful’; měi guó ‘America’; měi guó rén ‘American’; yīng ‘brave’; yīng guó ‘England, Britain’; yīng guó rén ‘English’ 6:07 (28 Sep 2007)
- men = plural form of individual, single form; wǒmen ‘we, us’; nǐmen ‘you’; tāmen ‘they, them’; kěshì ‘but’ 8:26 (28 Sep 2007)
- ma = question marker, to change a statement into a question; shì ‘is’ can be used to mean ‘yes’ 5:43 (28 Sep 2007)
- nǐne ‘how about you?’; tāmenne ‘how about them?’ 5:17 (28 Sep 2007)
- máng ‘busy’; also means ‘to be busy’ 2:07 (28 Sep 2007)
- bù ‘no, not’ 3:29 (28 Sep 2007)
- hěn ‘very’, also fulfils the twōsyllable meter rule: a dummy word to go with an adjective; bù máng ‘not busy’ 3:59 (28 Sep 2007)
- nǐ hǎo ‘hello’; hǎo ‘good, to be good, do well’; nǐ hǎo ma ‘you good? you doing well?’ = ‘how are you?’ 8:13 (28 Sep 2007)
- In Chinese the character/word has the same form for both individual and plural form; word order determines meaning 3:35 (28 Sep 2007)
- yě ‘also, too’; bù hěn hǎo ‘not very good, well’ 6:44 (28 Sep 2007)
- bú shì ‘not is’ (‘trampoline’ rule) 6:33 (28 Sep 2007)
- A question with a question word, such as wèi shénme ‘why’. All Chinese languages use the same characters to mean the same thing, but their pronunciation differs. 5:43 (28 Sep 2007)
- kàn ‘to look, see’; shū ‘book’; kàn shū ‘to read book’; saying ‘yes’ by repeating verb 4:23 (28 Sep 2007)
- xiàn zài ‘now’; zài ‘at’ emphasizes ‘at this very moment 9:11 (28 Sep 2007)
- Word order in Chinese: who–when–what is happening 3:34 (28 Sep 2007)
- xiǎng ‘would like to 4:13 (28 Sep 2007)
- jiàn ‘to get together, see somebody, meet’; bù xiǎng ‘would not like to’ 6:14 (28 Sep 2007)
- tài ‘too’; néng ‘can’; bù néng ‘cannot’; tai ... bù néng ‘too ... no can’ = ‘too ... to’ 5:42 (28 Sep 2007)
- yīnwei ‘because ’ 6:33 (28 Sep 2007)
- -de indicates possession: wǒde ‘my, mine’; nǐde ‘your, yours’; tāde ‘his, her, hers, its’; wǒmende ‘our, ours’; nǐmende ‘your, yours’; tāmende ‘their, theirs’; péngyǒu ‘friend’ 8:47 (28 Sep 2007)
- lǎoshī ‘teacher’ 7:13 (28 Sep 2007)
- wén ‘literature, culture’; zhōngwén ‘Chinese language ’; yīngwén ‘English language’; xiǎng (‘would like to’) in Chinese can only be followed by a verb. 5:19 (28 Sep 2007)
- kàn diànshì ‘to watch TV’; diàn ‘electrical’; shì ‘vision’; zài ‘at’ represents doing something at this moment; word order in Chinese: who–when–how–what is happening 11:59 (28 Sep 2007)
- zhè ‘this’; nǐ(de) hé wǒde ‘your and my’: you can omit the first de (possessive marker) after nǐ ‘you’ when you have both nǐde ‘your’ and wǒde ‘my’ 9:13 (28 Sep 2007)
- nà ‘that’; shì ‘is’: can be used to answer ‘yes’ to a question without using the verb in the question; bù ‘not’: can be used to answer ‘no’ to a question without using the verb 4:02 (28 Sep 2007)
- tàitai ‘wife’; tài ... bù néng ‘too ... no can’ = ‘too ... to’ 9:22 (28 Sep 2007)
- shénme ‘what’; zhè shì shénme ‘what is this?’; nà shì shénme ‘what is that?’; word order in questions and answers 7:56 (28 Sep 2007)
- shuō ‘to speak, say’; shuō yīngwén ‘speak English’; shuō zhōngwén ‘speak Chinese’ 4:12 (28 Sep 2007)
- yìdiǎnr ‘a little bit of’ 2:58 (28 Sep 2007)
- dāngrán ‘of course’ 6:23 (28 Sep 2007)
- shéi ‘who’ 5:34 (28 Sep 2007)
- xuéshēng ‘student’; hé (‘and’) cannot be used to connect sentences or phrases 7:13 (28 Sep 2007)
- zhēnde ‘really’; zhēnde ma ‘really?’ (as a question); māma ‘mother, Mom’ 7:07 (28 Sep 2007)
- ge = classifier; zhège shū ‘this book’; nàge rén ‘that man’; nàge péngyǒu ‘that friend’; nǚ ‘female’ 11:32 (28 Sep 2007)
- yíge ‘a, an, one’; yíge xuéshēng ‘a student’; yíge hǎo lǎoshī ‘a good teacher’; yíge shū ‘a book’ 7:46 (28 Sep 2007)
- jiā ‘home’; zài jiā ‘to be at home’; zài in Chinese can be used as and functions as a verb (‘to be at ...’) 11:04 (28 Sep 2007)
- nǎr ‘where’; zài nǎr ‘at where’ 3:16 (28 Sep 2007)
- yuǎn ‘far’ 5:53 (28 Sep 2007)
- dàgài ‘maybe’; běijīng ‘Beijing’ (‘northern capital’) 5:35 (28 Sep 2007)
- zhù (zài) ‘to live, stay’; shàng hǎi ‘Shanghai’ (‘on the sea’); shàng ‘on’; hǎi ‘sea’ 2:47 (28 Sep 2007)