Mandarin for Beginners (2015)
Topic outline
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Hanyu Pinyin System
Chinese Language is not an alphabetic language like English and Malay. It differs from alphabetic languages in that its written form is not directly related to its pronunciation. This has made many non-native speakers of Chinese find it difficult to pronounce and to learn words in written form of the language, which is also called characters. This difficulty has now been partly overcome by the introduction of the Chinese Phonetic Scheme, or more commonly as Hanyu Pinyin system, to provide phonetic notation for Chinese characters and to transcribe Chinese sounds.
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1.1 Self introducing
1.2 State of Malaysia in Mandarin
1.3 Numbers 0-10
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2.1 Family Members
2.2 Hometwon
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3.1 Occupation
3.2 Work place
3.3 Pronoun
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4.1 roommate
4.2 furniture
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5.1 Numbers 11-100
5.2 Form of address male and female classmates
5.3 Introducing friend and class
5.4 Race in Malaysia in Mandarin
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6.1 Day of the Week, Month of the Year, Year & day
6.2 Asking about years old
6.3 Asking about birthday
6.4 Asking about year of born
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7.1 Places in campus
7.2 Where are you going?
7.3 When are you going to somewhere?
7.4 Who are going to somewhere with you?
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8.1 Point of Time in Minute and Hour
8.2 Daily activities
8.3 Time of doing daily activities
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9.1 Hobby
9.2 What do you like/ dislike to do?
9.3 What do you able / unable to do?
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10.1 Fruits
10.2 Measure word of the things
10.3 Monetary units
10.4 Bargaining