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Male Person - United States language instructor and osteopathic physician

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  1. Introduction. How to use this course. Background to Chinese 6:58 (28 Sep 2007)
  2. Tones in Chinese languages 3:03 (28 Sep 2007)
  3. Flat tone (green thumb out); zhōng ‘middle’ 4:01 (28 Sep 2007)
  4. Rising tone (blue finger up); rén ‘person’ 3:10 (28 Sep 2007)
  5. Falling and rising tone (red ‘V’ for victory); wǒ ‘I, me’ 4:40 (28 Sep 2007)
  6. Falling tone (black finger down); shì ‘to be’ 7:14 (28 Sep 2007)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. guó ‘kingdom, nation’; zhōng guó ‘middle kingdom’ = China; zhōng guó rén ‘middle kingdom person’ = Chinese (person) 5:00 (28 Sep 2007)
  10. 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)
  11. měi ‘beautiful’; měi guó ‘America’; měi guó rén ‘American’; yīng ‘brave’; yīng guó ‘England, Britain’; yīng guó rén ‘English’ 6:07 (28 Sep 2007)
  12. men = plural form of individual, single form; wǒmen ‘we, us’; nǐmen ‘you’; tāmen ‘they, them’; kěshì ‘but’ 8:26 (28 Sep 2007)
  13. ma = question marker, to change a statement into a question; shì ‘is’ can be used to mean ‘yes’ 5:43 (28 Sep 2007)
  14. nǐne ‘how about you?’; tāmenne ‘how about them?’ 5:17 (28 Sep 2007)
  15. máng ‘busy’; also means ‘to be busy’ 2:07 (28 Sep 2007)
  16. bù ‘no, not’ 3:29 (28 Sep 2007)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. In Chinese the character/word has the same form for both individual and plural form; word order determines meaning 3:35 (28 Sep 2007)
  20. yě ‘also, too’; bù hěn hǎo ‘not very good, well’ 6:44 (28 Sep 2007)
  21. bú shì ‘not is’ (‘trampoline’ rule) 6:33 (28 Sep 2007)
  22. 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)
  23. kàn ‘to look, see’; shū ‘book’; kàn shū ‘to read book’; saying ‘yes’ by repeating verb 4:23 (28 Sep 2007)
  24. xiàn zài ‘now’; zài ‘at’ emphasizes ‘at this very moment 9:11 (28 Sep 2007)
  25. Word order in Chinese: who–when–what is happening 3:34 (28 Sep 2007)
  26. xiǎng ‘would like to 4:13 (28 Sep 2007)
  27. jiàn ‘to get together, see somebody, meet’; bù xiǎng ‘would not like to’ 6:14 (28 Sep 2007)
  28. tài ‘too’; néng ‘can’; bù néng ‘cannot’; tai ... bù néng ‘too ... no can’ = ‘too ... to’ 5:42 (28 Sep 2007)
  29. yīnwei ‘because ’ 6:33 (28 Sep 2007)
  30. -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)
  31. lǎoshī ‘teacher’ 7:13 (28 Sep 2007)
  32. 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)
  33. 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)
  34. 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)
  35. 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)
  36. tàitai ‘wife’; tài ... bù néng ‘too ... no can’ = ‘too ... to’ 9:22 (28 Sep 2007)
  37. 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)
  38. shuō ‘to speak, say’; shuō yīngwén ‘speak English’; shuō zhōngwén ‘speak Chinese’ 4:12 (28 Sep 2007)
  39. yìdiǎnr ‘a little bit of’ 2:58 (28 Sep 2007)
  40. dāngrán ‘of course’ 6:23 (28 Sep 2007)
  41. shéi ‘who’ 5:34 (28 Sep 2007)
  42. xuéshēng ‘student’; hé (‘and’) cannot be used to connect sentences or phrases 7:13 (28 Sep 2007)
  43. zhēnde ‘really’; zhēnde ma ‘really?’ (as a question); māma ‘mother, Mom’ 7:07 (28 Sep 2007)
  44. ge = classifier; zhège shū ‘this book’; nàge rén ‘that man’; nàge péngyǒu ‘that friend’; nǚ ‘female’ 11:32 (28 Sep 2007)
  45. yíge ‘a, an, one’; yíge xuéshēng ‘a student’; yíge hǎo lǎoshī ‘a good teacher’; yíge shū ‘a book’ 7:46 (28 Sep 2007)
  46. 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)
  47. nǎr ‘where’; zài nǎr ‘at where’ 3:16 (28 Sep 2007)
  48. yuǎn ‘far’ 5:53 (28 Sep 2007)
  49. dàgài ‘maybe’; běijīng ‘Beijing’ (‘northern capital’) 5:35 (28 Sep 2007)
  50. zhù (zài) ‘to live, stay’; shàng hǎi ‘Shanghai’ (‘on the sea’); shàng ‘on’; hǎi ‘sea’ 2:47 (28 Sep 2007)
  51. yǒu ‘to have’ 4:08 (28 Sep 2007)
  52. nán ‘male’; word order: who–when–what is happening 8:31 (28 Sep 2007)
  53. cèsuǒ ‘toilet’ 2:18 (28 Sep 2007)
  54. méi yǒu ‘not have’ 5:00 (28 Sep 2007)
  55. nàme ‘well, in that case’; yǒuge (from yǒu yīge) ‘have a’; shìge (from shì yīge) ‘be a’ 7:46 (28 Sep 2007)
  56. More practice with yǒu ‘have’ and zhù ‘live’ 9:27 (28 Sep 2007)
  57. tài hǎo le ‘wonderful’ 9:19 (28 Sep 2007)
  58. zài jiā ‘to be at home / in the house’; zài jiālǐ ’inside the house’; zài[possessive] jiālǐ ‘in [someone’s] house’ 8:59 (28 Sep 2007)
  59. zhuōzi ‘table’ 3:24 (28 Sep 2007)
  60. lǐ not used with geographical location; lúndūn ‘London’ 7:27 (28 Sep 2007)
  61. yào ‘to want’; bú yào ‘not want’ 6:38 (28 Sep 2007)
  62. hěn duō ‘a lot of’; wǒ yào zhège / nàge ‘I want this one / that one’ 6:42 (28 Sep 2007)
  63. qǜ ‘to go to 4:39 (28 Sep 2007)
  64. rènshi ‘to meet, to be acquainted with’ 4:23 (28 Sep 2007)
  65. jīntiān ‘today’; jīn‘current’; tiān ‘day’ 6:17 (28 Sep 2007)
  66. qǐng wèn ‘excuse me’; qǐng ‘please’; wèn ‘to ask’; aiya ‘too bad, very bad, my God’ 7:48 (28 Sep 2007)
  67. shàng ‘to be on’; zài ... shàng ‘on ...’ 2:21 (28 Sep 2007)
  68. kàn jiàn ‘to notice, see’ 10:55 (28 Sep 2007)
  69. zài ... xià ‘to be under...’ 7:20 (28 Sep 2007)
  70. dà ‘big’; bú dà ‘not big’ 4:24 (28 Sep 2007)
  71. yǒu ‘there is, there are’; méi yǒu ‘there is not’; zài nǎr yǒu shū? ‘where is there a book?’; omitting zài‘to be at’ with yǒu ‘there is’ and méi yǒu ‘there is not’ 8:46 (28 Sep 2007)
  72. xuéxiào ‘school’ 10:12 (28 Sep 2007)
  73. zhèr ‘here’; zài zhèr ‘to be here’; nàr ‘there’ 10:57 (28 Sep 2007)
  74. měi ‘every’; měitiān ‘every day’ 3:20 (28 Sep 2007)
  75. yǒude ‘(there is / are) some’; zài ‘to be at’ can be omitted with yǒu ‘there is’ and méi yǒu ‘there is not’ when there is no ambiguity as to who is doing the action; jiā ‘family’; měi jiā ‘every family’ 7:05 (28 Sep 2007)
  76. duì ‘correct’; bú cuò ‘not bad’; cuò ‘bad’; three ways to say ‘yes’: repeat the verb, shì ‘is’, duì ‘correct’; yě ‘either / too’ 7:36 (28 Sep 2007)
  77. bú duì ‘not correct’ 3:57 (28 Sep 2007)
  78. zài jiā ‘to be at home’; zài jiālǐ ‘at [somebody’s] home’ 7:10 (28 Sep 2007)
  79. qǐng wèn ‘excuse me’; twōsyllable meter rule 10:10 (28 Sep 2007)
  80. bàba ‘father, Dad’; zhī dào ‘to know’ 4:57 (28 Sep 2007)
  81. yào shuō ‘want to speak’; néng shuō ‘can speak’ 8:17 (28 Sep 2007)
  82. xiānsheng (or shēng) ‘Mister, husband’; xiān ‘first, before’; wáng xiānsheng ‘Mr. Wang’ 7:02 (28 Sep 2007)
  83. hěn duō ‘very many, many’ 5:14 (28 Sep 2007)
  84. xiè xie ‘Thank you, thanks’ bú xiè ‘no thanks, you are welcome’; when to say xiè xie 5:02 (28 Sep 2007)
  85. zài jiàn ‘Good bye, see you again’; zài ‘again’; jiàn ‘to see someone/meet’; lái ‘to come’; bù néng lái ‘cannot come’ 8:55 (28 Sep 2007)
  86. duì(ma)? ‘right?’ 3:08 (28 Sep 2007)
  87. mǎi ‘to buy’; bú yào ‘not want’ 4:21 (28 Sep 2007)
  88. dōngxi ‘a thing, things’ 4:28 (28 Sep 2007)
  89. kànkan ‘to take a look’ 5:00 (28 Sep 2007)