第1641回-自主學習-幫助外國人學漢語拼音-2-備課

我在 2/21 第1636回中提到，我想用簡單的方式教外國人學漢語拼音。我找到的 Little Fox 漢語拼音教學影片，共有六單元，本回網誌要記錄的是我在做第一單元：漢語拼音系統簡介的備課時，我把影片的逐字稿記錄下來，並加上一些註解：

Ni-Hao Chinese 1 Let's Learn about Taiwan

第一單元的第一課影片，主要是在介紹中國的人口組成和「漢語=普通話」，我將之改為台灣的介紹，也提到台灣講的叫做「國語」

Let's learn about Taiwan
Ni-Hao (You Good), Hao-Peng-You (Good Friend)
My name is Ling-Ling, and this is my friend Pang Pang
Are you ready to learn Chinese?
First, let's learn about Taiwan
Taiwan has a population around 24 million
There are 4 major ethnic groups in Taiwan: Hoklo Han Chinese, Hakka Han Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Aboriginal Taiwanese
Each group is unique with their own customs and dialects of Chinese
The Mainland Chinese ethnic group speaks "Guo-Yu"
So in Taiwan, Guo-Yu is used as the standard language
"Guo-Yu" means "National Language"
"Guo-Yu" is almost the same as Han-Yu and Pu-Tong-Hua, sometimes we use difference phrases to describe the same thing.
Now, if I say Guo-Yu, remember that it means Chinese

I'm not singing
I'm practicing the four tones of Chinese
Chinese is a tonal language that means the meaning of a syllable changes if we pronounce it in a different pitch
Pitch is how high or low your voice goes
Each tone sounds different
Here is the first tone
Here is the second tone
Here is the third tone
Here is the fourth tone
listen
Let's take a look at the syllable: ma
Ma1: in the first tone means mother
Ma2: in the second tone means hemp
Hemp is a kind of plant used to make rope or strong rough cloth
Ma3: in the third tone means horse
Ma4: in the fourth tone means to scold
See? If you say one syllable in different tones, it changes the meaning
That is why the four tones are important
So we need to practice the four tones
Right? Pang Pang
Then let's keep practicing

Hao-Peng-You (Good Friend)
How do you think this character is pronounced?
We say Ma
The pronunciation of Chinese characters can be written with a tone, an initial sound and a final sound
This is Pin-Yin
Pin-Yinis is the system used to write Chinese characters with the English alphabet
This makes it easy for us to read Chinese
English vowels like a o e i are called "finals"
There are two types of finals
A simple final has only one vowel
A compound final can have two vowels or one vowel and a consonant
What about consonants?
Come here Pang Pang
Consonants are called "initials"
There are 21 initials in Chinese
Most of them are pronounced similarly to the English consonants
Initials and finals combine to make a syllable
m and a makes ma
Tones, initials and finals tell us how a character is pronounced
So it is important to learn Pin-Yin well

考慮看完此影片後，介紹一個字音和三個母音 na(拿) ni (你) ne (呢)
Neutral tone - Chinese Pronunciation Wiki or Zero Tone, Fifth tone. The neutral tone is said to be "light" or "de-emphasized," meaning you don't have to give it the same amount of stress, and it should actually be a bit shorter than the other tones.

Hao-Peng-You (Good Friend)
Look I wrote my name in Chinese
Doesn't it look cool?
There are two different ways to write Chinese
We'll show you right now
Let's take a look at the character for "door"
Wow great job, Pang-Pang
Now Pang-Pang will write "door" in another way
It looks simpler than before, right?
that's why this is called Simplified Chinese
Let's keep going
Here is the character for horse
How's this? Does it look different?
This one is Traditional Chinese, and this one is the Simplified Chinese character for horse
Now you know the difference between Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters
Thanks Pang-Pang