mandarin chinese

Business Mandarin MMS Semester - 1

Faculty: Dr. Varnana SarkarGNVS Institute of Management

The Great Wall of China

Why learn Chinese?

China and the World1/5th of the world's population lives in ChinaCountries with large overseas Chinese populations include Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia. Most countries have a Chinatown in the city. This picture was taken by a photographer in Chinatown in Singapore.

Chinese equivalents

India and China

Made in China

Made in China

Global Village – A Flat World

• Using Skype, calling China costs a few cents per minute.

• As Thomas Friedman has written, the world is becoming flat so communication, ideas, and goods are traveling faster and faster between countries including the US and China

• Over 16,000 US companies sell products in China

Who speaks Chinese?

The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is fluent in Mandarin Chinese

Who Speaks Chinese?The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner studied Chinese and attended Beijing University is also fluent in Chinese.

Who Speaks Chinese?The former Utah Governor, Ambassador to China, and Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese (he learned it as a missionary in Taiwan and has an adopted child from China).

Millionaires in China

Why study Chinese

• Chinese is the fastest growing Foreign Language being taught in US schools

• Mandarin Chinese is the most used language on the Internet

Why Study Chinese as a Management Student

• Survival - Mayor Daly's quote: “We want to give our young people opportunities to advance ... and [Chinese] is a great opportunity to survive in today's economy.’’

• Many companies are expanding their business to China and many others are establishing business relationships with Chinese companies.

Management Student’s reasons for learning Chinese

• I have Chinese clients. • Learning Chinese will help me understand what

they are thinking and hopefully get more clients.

• I am doing China-related industrial research. Most materials are written in Chinese.

• Very few Indians can speak Chinese, if I can, I will have an edge over others, perhaps ask for a better salary

Growth of Chinese Language Learning Programmes

Business Mandarin

What’s it all about?

What is the difference?

Chinese• Consists of dialects -

Mandarin (most widely spoken) and Cantonese. Al Hakka, Wu, Gan, Ping, Jin, Xiang, etc.

• Mandarin IS Chinese, but Chinese is not just Mandarin, Chinese has more dialects

Mandarin• Official group of related

dialects of China• It is ‘putonghua’ or

Standard Chinese or Simplified Chinese

• National Standard Language of China

Origin of Mandarin

• From Hindi ‘mantri’, from Sanskrit ‘mantrin’ meaning ‘minister’

• Originally meant as language of the official of the Chinese Empire

• Chinese name ‘Guanhua’• Jesuit Missionaries of 16th century called it

Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà (官话 /官話 ), or "language of the officials"

Jesuit missionaries of 16th Century

Subgroups of Mandarin

Hanyu Pinyin

How to speak Mandarin

The Basics of Mandarin

The Four Tones of Chinese language

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXqwR9hfJo

New Words

• nǐ hǎoHello你好

• nín hǎoHello (polite form) 您好

• wǒ shì …I am…我是

New Words

• maquestion particle嗎

• nequestion particle呢

• yěalso也

New Words

• xiān shengMister; sir先生

• mángbusy忙

• hěnvery很

Chinese Numbers

Dialogue 1

• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do!• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do!

New Words

• ni – you• hao – good, well• kou – mouth• bai – white• hei – black, dark• gei – to give• lai – to come

Dialogue

• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do! (singular)• Nimen hao!• How do you do (plural)• Mang ma?• Are you busy?• Hen mang.• Yes, I am.

New Words

• nimen – you (plural)• mang – busy• ma – an interrogative particle• hen – very• nan – difficult• kan – to look, to have a look• leng – cold• dong – to understand• heiban - blackboard

Dialogue - Revision

• Ni hao! (Hello! How are you?)• Ni hao! (Hello! How are you?)• Ni mang ma? (Are you busy?)• Hen mang. Ni mang bu mang? (Very busy. Are you busy or not busy?)• Bu mang. (Not busy)

Dialogue

• Nan ma? (Is it difficult)• Bu nan. (Not difficult)• Dong le ma? (Do you understand?)• Dong le (Yes, I/we do)

Revision Quiz• Write the English word for the following:• 1. hen nan• 2. nimen • 3. kan• 4. dong• 5. heiban• 6. lai• 7. gei• 8. kou• 9. bai• 10. hei• 11. mang• 12. nan

Dialogue 1

• A: Nǐ hǎo, wǒ shì Yǎ Xīn. B: Yǎ Xīn nǐ hǎo. Wǒ xìng Chén, jiào Chén Zhōng Xīng. A: Chén xiān sheng, nǐ hěn máng ma? B: Hěn máng. Nǐ ne? A: Wǒ yě máng.

• A: Hello, I am Ya Xin. B: Hello Ya Xin. My family name is Chen. My full name is Chen Zong Xing. A: Mr. Chen, are you busy? B: Very busy, and you? A: I am also busy.

VERBSEnglish Chinese English Chinese

Is (to be, permanent state) Shì to arrive Dàodáto be (location ‘at’ going at some place) Zài to owe, ought to,

must Yīnggāi

to have (to possess) Yǒu to put Fàngzhì

to do Zuò to place Fàngzhì

to make Shǐ to believe Xiāngxìn

to be able to (can) Nénggòu to speak/talk Fāyán/Shuō

to say/tell Shuō/Gàosu to read Yuèdú

to go Qù to sleep Shuìjiào

to see Kàn to understand Liǎojiě

to give Gěi to find Zhǎodào

to eat Chī to call Dǎ diànhuà

to know (info) Zhīdào to come Lái

to want Xiǎng yào

shēntĭ- health

• Nǐ hǎo!• (How do you do!)• Nǐ hǎo!• (How do you do!)• Nǐ shēntĭ hǎo ma? • (How is your health?/ How are you?)• Hěn hǎo, xièxie.• (Fine, thank you.)

Nice to meet you

• Wŏ hĕn gāoxìng rènshi nĭ (wŏ-I am, hĕn-very) gāoxìng- happy, rènshi- to know, nĭ -YOU)

• Nice to meet you.• Wŏ yĕ hĕn gāoxìng rènshi nĭ (wŏ- I am, yĕ –also, hĕn- very, gāoxìng- happy, rènshi- to know, nĭ - you)• Nice to meet you too!

Hate - Hèn

verb

恨 hate, regret

讨厌 hate

怨恨 hate

恶 hate, detest, loathe

忌恨 hate

恼恨 hate, resent, detest

瘅 hate, condemn

厌恨 hate, detest, abhor, extremely dislike, disgust, find insufferable

腻烦 hate, sick of, be bored, loathe

怼 hate, dislike

Hate - Hèn恶心 hate, loathe

疾 hate, abhor

憝 hate, dislike

恚恨 abhor, feel bitter, execrate, detest, hate, be in a bad temper

柸 bear grudge, hate

noun

怼 hate, dislike

Numbers 11-2011 shí yī 十一12 shí èr 十二13 shí sān 十三14 shí sì 十四15 shí wǔ 十五16 shí liù 十六17 shí qī 十七18 shí bā 十八19 shí jiǔ 十九20 èr shí 二十

Numbers 21-3021 èr shí yī 二十一22 èr shí èr 二十二etc

30 sān shí 三十40 sì shí 四十50 wǔ shí 五十60 liù shí 六十70 qī shí 七十80 bā shí 八十90 jiǔ shí 九十

Numbers 100-1000100 yì bǎi 一百101 yì bǎi líng yī 一百零一102 yì bǎi líng èr 一百零二etc

1000 yì qiān 一千1001 yì qiān líng yī 一千零一etc

10,000 yì wàn 一萬

What are you studying?• A: Nǐ xuéxí shénme ?• (What are you studying?)• B: Wǒ xuéxí Hànyǔ.• (I am studying Chinese.)• A: Tā xuéxí shénme?• (What is he studying?)• B: Tā yě xuéxí Hànyǔ.• (He is also studying Chinese.)• A: Hànyǔ nán ma?• (Is Chinese difficult?)• B: Hànyǔ bù nán.• (No, it isn’t.)

What are you doing?• Nǐ zuò shénme ne? (What are you doing?)• Wǒ xiě Hànzì ne. ( I am writing Chinese characters.)• Tā zuò shénme ne? (What is she doing?)• Tā niàn shēngcí ne. (She is reading aloud new words)• Tāmen zuò shénme ne? (What are they doing?)• Tāmen tīng lùyīn ne.(They are listening to the audio recording.)

Is this/ is that?• Zhè shì shū ma?• (Is this a book?)• Zhè shì shū.• (This is a book)• Nà shì bào ma? • (Is that a newspaper?)• Nà shì bào.• (That is a newspaper.)• Nà shì shénme?• (What is that?)• Nà shì huàbào.• (That is a pictorial.)

New wordsWhat is this?

• Zhè – this

What is this?

• Shū – book

What is this?

• Nà – that

What is this?

• Bào / Bàozhǐ – newspaper

What is this?

• Huàbào - pictorial

Days of the week

Day in English Chinese PinyinMonday xīngqīyīTuesday xīngqīèr

Wednesday xīngqīsānThursday xīngqīsì

Friday xīngqīwŭSaturday xīngqīliùSunday xīngqītiān