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This entry was posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Introduction . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
36 Responses to “Introduction #1 - The Art of Ordering Noodles”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Hey everyone, welcome to our first lesson at ChineseClass101. Hope you liked it! Once you check out the features of the site, make sure to get yourself to a restaurant asap and get some mouth-watering Chinese noodles. Sure to inspire diligence in Chinese studies. Yum. Looking forward to lots more Chinese lessons together. Come and say hello to us in the comments! Victor & Amber
Tuesday at 10:47 pm
Great first lesson! I’m looking forward to listening to more!
I think there is a mistake in the PDF…The Chinese says “请说中文” and the pinyin next to it says “Ni shuo de dui”. It should be “Qing shuo Zhongwen”, right?
Wednesday at 3:54 am
Hi Sarah,
Welcome! Thanks for letting us know, the PDF has been fixed now! Just a little glitch!
Amber
Friday at 2:52 pm
Wow!
Entertaining and informative! I’ve seen a great many introductory Chinese courses in my day, and this is the only one that didn’t begin with the tired-old “你好,” “我很好,谢谢” followed by a long and drawn out explanation on the importance of tones. If you guys can keep this up, the future is bright for CC101.
Looking forward to Intro #2. 再见!
Tuesday at 1:59 pm
Ah, memories of my high-school job at the Chinese restaurant…I ate with the owners after every shift, and when it was time they would say:
“Juria, chi fan!”
Julia
Tuesday at 11:52 pm
Thank you for making the Chinese version of the site!
I think it was lacking since Japanese and korean were already.
我學漢語。
Wednesday at 7:42 am
An absolutely amazing first lesson, even though my ears didnt quite catch the sentences before I listened to it for the fifth time, but hey, practise makes perfect!
Thursday at 10:34 pm
The trad. character for noodle is 麵.
The pdf shows 面 which is wrong.
Friday at 8:27 am
Hope, 面 is the simplified version of 麵. The first is more common on the Chinese mainland.
Friday at 1:08 pm
Any chance of getting something along the lines of the Hanzi closeup with traditional characters as opposed to simplified?
Friday at 11:30 pm
Hi hape,
Thanks for letting us know, it’s been fixed.
Shane,
I will see what we can do! Good idea!
Tuesday at 7:52 pm
I really enjoyed this lesson.
Thank you very much.
Monday at 12:45 am
Hi
Is it possible to be questioned in simplified Chinese and not traditional Chinese in the vocabulary and writing tests in the Premium Learning Centre? When I f.ex. write in 面 when asked what “noodles” is in Chinese, I get zero points. I am mostly interested in learning the simplified Chinese.
But I must agree with the above comments that this is a very motivating learning site.
Tuesday at 7:16 am
Hi Nils,
Yes, that is a slight technical glitch, it’s in the process of being fixed up, so should be as you like it soon! sorry about that
So glad you are enjoying the site!
Sunday at 9:47 am
i love learning about different since that`s kinda close to the language i just thought i get into that too great lesson one question i don`t get the feull meaning of woa yao hi shui i know yao-to want other than that i`m kind lost
Friday at 2:21 pm
What a great funny introduction! I loved the side stories
Friday at 8:10 pm
Hi Guys! Awesome lesson, I really enjoyed it!
By the way the audio file in the Vocabulary list for Chinese is not working. Would love to hear the syllables pronounced…..
Keep up the great work!!
Friday at 8:10 pm
Oops! ^^ Sorry typed that in the wrong section!
Tuesday at 1:51 am
I have been trying out a number of lessons and they sound good. However, the pinyin in the lesson notes, even though in pdf format, appears as total gibberish on my Mac. I would send you a screen dump, but this is not possible with this mail comment. Sadly in this form I can not use the lessons. If you give me an e-mail address that can receive attachements I shall gladly send you the screen dump.
Wednesday at 8:12 am
我要喝果汁。kk。how do chinese people write laughter? like haha is it 哈哈?
Wednesday at 10:37 am
@Kayla
是的,哈哈
Tuesday at 1:56 pm
我爱吃面!!哈哈。
This website is so great. Everything is very interesting, and it is very easy for me to learn what is being taught on the lessons. Victor and Amber are so funny, they make everything so enjoyable as well. Keep up the good work!!
Sunday at 8:06 pm
How do you write foreign Names in chinese?
Monday at 11:05 am
Hi Isaac
你好。Usually for foreigners, the most convenient way is to phonatically tranlsate the English name into Chinese. For example, Issac can be called 艾萨克 (ài sà kè) in Chinese. Same goes with your surname as well. However, as you probably already knew that in Chinese culture, the surname always comes before the first name. So you could end up having a rather long and random combination of Chinese characters as your name which is also going to be difficult to pronunce.
Regards,
Jane
Sunday at 3:11 am
Good day Ambar / Victor,
is there the possibility to have the lessons explained in one’s native language. In my case Spanish.
thank you!
Monday at 11:50 am
Hi Orlando,
Thanks for your suggestion and I am sorry we are unable to provide a podcast in Spanish at the moment. I will forward your idea to my colleagues. But in the mean time, please let me know if you have any other questions. If you really want to learn Chinese in your native language, do a search on the internet, you might be able to find some other learning Chinese with Spanish podcast. Good luck!
Best,
Jane
Monday at 10:05 am
Hi Team,
It gives me immense pleasure to see such great lessons; however, I appreciate if you can help me out in writing Chinese. How to write Chinese characters etc.,.
I have become a great fan of this website.
Keep posting more and more lessons.
Wednesday at 11:43 am
@Kandan Sundaresan,
Thanks!
For Chinese characters, you can start with imitating a few words you always use: such as 好(hao3 - good),是(shi4 - to be) etc. Then you can tell there are different radicals in Chinese characters. They usually represent some certain meaning or certain pronunciation, and they will help you to remember how to write the characters. Those are useful tips to start.
–Echo
Sunday at 12:33 am
Hey,
Just want to let you guys know in your [Chinese Basics- About Chinese] section, I noticed a subsection which says [Traditional vs. Simplified Characters]. I’m from Malaysia and I’ve learned Chinese since a young age, for many years since. So I can say that Malaysians do not use Traditional Characters. All our nation’s Chinese text books are written and taught in Simplified Characters.
Tuesday at 11:23 am
@elizabeth,
I see, 谢谢!
–Echo
Wednesday at 9:23 pm
It’s a good lesson and I learnt most of the material in one go.
Also, unlike most audio tracks from numerous other programs that I have subjected myself to, not only is it not boring but quite entertaining as well.
Monday at 11:44 pm
@Saif,
Thanks
Thursday at 10:23 am
Great First Lesson. I can now order my noodles in Chinese
.
Sunday at 10:28 am
How does one use the Voice Recorder?
Thursday at 11:11 am
Hi Tim,
Thank you very much for your support!
When you click on the My Voice Recorder icon, a pop-up window will show 3 buttons: Rec, Stop, and Play. Everything is pretty straightforward, except that it is a bit tricky for the applet to work for the first time, you’ll have to answer a set of Security Warning windows, and install additional plugins and java in order for the recorder to work.
If you run into any problem while setting it up, please tell us and let us know the browser and version you use.
Friday at 11:01 pm
love this website ! a very good introduction to learn this complexe language… Chinese !
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