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Pinyin Course

Target

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Design for students with no exposure or new to Mandarin pinyin.

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Learning Approach
 

• Start with the foundation of the construction of Mandarin Chinese.

• Introduce a set of initials and finals of pinyin.

• Explain the phonetic translation of Mandarin pronunciation and tones.

• Discuss the rules of tone changes in pinyin.

• Study the spelling rules of pinyin.

• Provide substantial examples to demonstrate pinyin concepts.

• Conduct a quiz  to evaluate a good understanding of taught materials for each session. 

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Duration

Total 10 sessions, 50 mins per each session.

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Student Handout - Lesson 1

Introduce Mandarin Pinyin and Tones

It is the first session of the Mandarin Pinyin course.  To warm up, you are advised to watch the below 2 videos before the start of the session:
 

1.  What is Mandarin Chinese?
    

2.  Why Need to Know Mandarin Pinyin?

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In this unit, we aim to:

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1. Introduce the Mandarin pinyin and concept of a syllable;
    

2. Study and pronounce 23 initials;
    

3. Learn 24 finals, including simple, compound, special and nasal finals;
    

4. Use graphs to learn and illustrate 4 basic tones, including first, second, third and fourth tones; 
    

5. Discuss neutral tones and the proper way to pronounce it.

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