Ottawa Mandarin School Adult Class 2011-12

Ottawa Mandarin SchoolAdult Class 2011-12 Week 04: October 22, 2011 Instructor: Daniel C. Lee Pronunciation發音

Plans • Review of pronunciations • List of all possible Mandarin pronunciations • Practice • Practice • Practice

Practice 1 • Pull out a piece of paper and assign pinyin on 26 English alphabet (A to Z)

Pinyin consonants & special notes

Practice 2 • Pinyin your name and your neighbors’ names, complete with tones (as close as possible)! e.g. Daniel, Lee (dan1 niou3, li4)

Practice 3 – Tong Twisters 繞口令 1 • 非揮發性化學花卉肥料 Non-volatile chemical flower fertilizer • 化肥會揮發。 Chemical fertilizer is volatile. • 黑化肥發灰，灰化肥發黑。 Black chemical fertilizer turns grey; grey chemical fertilizer turns black. • 黑化肥發灰會揮發；灰化肥揮發會發黑。 When black chemical fertilizer turns grey, it becomes volatile. When grey chemical fertilizer becomes volatile, it turns black.

Practice 3 – Tong Twisters 繞口令2 • 媽媽騎馬，馬慢，媽媽罵馬。 • 妞妞騎牛，牛拗，妞妞擰牛。 Mother rides a horse. The horse is slow. Mother scolds the horse. A little girl rides a cow. The cow is stubborn. The little girl pinches the cow. • 吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮，不吃葡萄倒吐葡萄皮。 Eat the grape, but do not spit the grape skin. Do not eat the grape, but spit the grape skin. • 和尚端湯上塔，塔滑湯灑湯燙塔。 A monk holds the soup while climbing the tower. The tower was slippery; the soup was spilled and burned the tower.

Practice 3 – Tong Twisters 繞口令3 • 石獅寺有四十四隻石獅子，四十四隻石獅子吃四十四只濕紫柿子。 There are 44 stone lions in the Stone Lion Temple. The 44 stone lions eat 44 wet purple persimmons. • 山前有個嚴圓眼，山後有個圓眼袁，兩人上山來比眼，不知是嚴圓眼的眼圓？還是圓眼袁的眼圓？ In front of the mountain lives a Yan, who is round-eyed. At the back of the mountain lives a round-eyed Yuan. The two climbs the mountain to compare their eyes. We don’t know whether Yan round-eyed’s eyes are more round, or round-eyed Yuan’s eyes are more round?

Practice 4 – 施氏食獅史1/2 • 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 In the stone chamber there is a poet surnamed SHI, who likes to eat lion and vowed to eat ten lions. • 施氏時時適市視獅。 SHI from time to time goes to the market to see lions. • 十時，適十獅適市。 At ten o’clock, it happened that there were ten lions arriving at the market. • 是時，適施氏適市。 At the time, it happened that SHI was at the market. • 氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。 SHI, who watched these ten lions, by the power of arrows, made the ten lions passed away.

Practice 4 – 施氏食獅史2/2 • 氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。 SHI picked up these ten lions’ corpses and returned to the stone chamber. • 石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。 The stone chamber was damp; SHI made his servant to wipe the stone chamber. • 石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。 As the stone chamber was wiped, SHI started to try eating these ten lions. • 食時，始識是十獅屍，實十石獅。 At the time of eating, (SHI) started to realize that these ten lions corpses were actually ten stone lions. • 試釋是事。 Try to explain this event.

Lesson 1 • 你好 How do you do 老師好 Hello, teacher 同學好 Hello, student • 你好嗎? How are you? (Add 嗎 turns a statement into a question.) • 大家好 How does everybody do • 早上好 Good morning (Mainland) 晚上好 Good evening (Mainland) • 早安 Good morning 午安Good noon 晚安 Good night • 再見 Good bye • 謝謝 Thanks 謝謝你 Thank you • 對不起 Sorry/excuse me 抱歉 Sorry

Homework • Pick one tongue twister and practice it. • Practice greetings, goodbye, thank you, etc.

Ottawa Mandarin School Adult Class 2011-12