Lesson 3 - 再见！Zaijian

In lesson 3 we discussed some common words used in class as well as sharpening our pronunciation and ability with numbers.

Please practice the sounds below:
ai ao ia
ou ei ie iao iou

To say goodbye to some one, we say the words "zai jian." Both have the sharp descending 4th tone, and the "z" sound is Chinese is very short and sharp. In English it is more pronounced like in zebra. In Chinese it barely sounds like a "z" and a bit more like a "ts". Practice this.

再见老师。goodbye teacher.
再见学生。goodbye student.

明天见！see you tomorrow. (ming2tian1jian4).

We also practiced some listening classes dealing with tone and sound recognition. Practice this with someone. Say a pinyin with a particular tone and then have your partner try to guess the tone and spelling of the pinyin.

Below are the numbers from 11 to 30. Notice how they are just a logical continuation of the numbers 1 through 10.

十一，十二，十三，十四，十五，十六，十七， 十八，十九，二十。

二十一，二十二，二十三，二十四，二十五，二十六，二十七，二十八， 二十九，三十。

This first is shi2yi1, which is 10 and a 1. 12 is a 10 and a 2 and so on to 30 which is 2 10's.

好了我们今天下课。下一次见。