Chinese for Children: Building Vocabulary
Children do best when they start off with simple words that can quickly and easily be combined to make lots of phrases. Earlier, we discussed numbers, which are perfect for beginning students because the Chinese numbering system is very logical (if you missed that post, it's here at the bottom of the page).
To review, the numbers from 1 to 10:
1 = yi
2 = er
3 = san
4 = si
5 = wu
6 = liu
7 = qi
8 = ba
9 = jiu
10 = shi
And, these are new:
11 = shi yi
12 = shi er
13 = shi san
14 = shi si
15 = shi wu
16 = shi liu
17 = shi qi
18 = shi ba
19 = shi jiu
20 = er shi
Check out our Montessori Mandarin bilingual flash cards!
To review, the numbers from 1 to 10:
1 = yi
2 = er
3 = san
4 = si
5 = wu
6 = liu
7 = qi
8 = ba
9 = jiu
10 = shi
And, these are new:
11 = shi yi
12 = shi er
13 = shi san
14 = shi si
15 = shi wu
16 = shi liu
17 = shi qi
18 = shi ba
19 = shi jiu
20 = er shi
Check out our Montessori Mandarin bilingual flash cards!
posted by Popping Pandas at
1:46 AM
2 Comments:
This is a really great find, this site (I am learning Chinese for a couple years now, and attempting to keep my son adopted from China from losing all of his), but the pinyin REALLY needs to have tone markings or numbers. If not, it is just not pronouncable: one cannot differentiate between shi (the verb to be) and shi (ten). I noticed that in the samples for the downloadable cards too, ie bi zi for nose, which is shown as having no tones, whereas bi is 2nd tone.
thanks though for a great resource in general!
Leanne in Montreal
Thanks for your comments.
Actually, all of our flash cards have tones marks, of course! I just couldn't get the tone marks to show up properly on the blog for some reason.
And, we are moving this blog!
http://montessorichinese.blogspot.com/
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