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Special grammar rule in Chinese Sentence Patterns: No inflectional endings in Chinese, No endings to show TENSE, PERSON, GENDER, NUMBER, CASE, hence the word order is extremely important.

In this chapter, We are going to learn to using Mandarin to introduce yourself and asked friends’ name and nationality.

The First time to meet each other and greetings by Mandarin.

I. Sentence with 姓(Xing4), 叫(jiao4), 是(shi4)
姓(Xing4), 叫(jiao4), 是(shi4), and  are used as verbs to introduce someone’s name.
姓(Xing4), is followed only by family name (surname). But 叫(jiao4) is used with full name or given name or given name. when together with titles, such as Mr. or Mrs., only 是(shi4) can be used.

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Practice:

Please refer to the below photos, and make sentences with them.

 

 

 

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Ⅱ. Making Questions with a Question Word (QW)
 
The word order of this type of question is the same as the word order of their answers in Chinese.

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Practice:
 
Please refer to the below photos, and make question sentences with them
 
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Note, another way to use question as the below,
 

 

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Answer is as the below,

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III. Making Simple Type Question with the Particle 嗎
 
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Answer is as the below

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Assignment (5 points) for this week,

Please prepare a short introduce yourself with the up sentences by recording your sounds through the website http://vocaroo.com, and send your file to me by email.

Thank you so much for your attention, we do a good job together.

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