Lesson 3
Lesson date: 10/2/2026 (Thursday)
Lesson time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Lesson was held on a zoom session
Lecture slides link
Google classroom link
YouTube link
Chinese Classroom greetings
Teacher calls students "classmates".
同学 = (Tóngxué) classmates
student = xuesheng
晚上 = Evening
晚上好 = Good Evening
Homework 2 listening task:
Homework 2 Audio
The answers are:
- 80368759
- 23514595
Spelling Rules
Page 5 and page 8
The issues comes from point 5.
- ueng is written as ong if preceded by an initial, e.g., tong, dong, nong. long. Without an initial, it is weng.
ueng audio:
ong audio:
- To avoid confusion, as apostrophe is used to separate two syllables with connecting vowels,
Sometimes an apostrophe is also needed even if the two syllables are not connect by vowels.
nu -> means female.
j, q, and x are never combined with wuu sound.
Workbook
During the session we then went through Exercises D and E in the workbook.
D Tones: First and Fourth (Level and Falling)
D Answers
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E Tones: Second and Thrid (Rising and Low)
E Answers
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Stroke Order (p.17)
- from left to right
- from top to bottom
- Horizontal before vertical
- from outside to inside
- middle before two sides
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Inside before closing
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Mobile App: Chinese Stroke Order Writing
Basic Radicals
- Basic components to write characters.
Quick review of the vocabulary
basically same as lesson 2
sho si - quick break
After break - dialogue + workbook
Dialogue practice
It is recommended to be able to read the Dialogue without Pinyin.
With Pinyin
Pinyin can be seen in Lesson 2 here
Audio of Dialogue
Additional vocab
休息 - Xiūxí - break
Workbook
Workbook page reference 12
Exercise A
Audio
Questions:
Answers:
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Exercise B
Audio
Question
Answer
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Exercise C
Audio
Questions
Answers
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