Chinese Pinyin Assignment 汉语拼音作业

• Create two small Chinese posters of the two Pinyin songs: “Initial Song” and “Initials & Finals Song”, and create a short video of you singing or reading these two pinyin songs (both Initial song and Initials & Finals Song). Or present this in person in class.
  • Here are the videos on Initials song and Initials and Finals song:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj3plQP160E (Initial Songs)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsbgSDKjp8 (Initial & Final Song)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jX4oZrlwo
• On the poster, write the title of each song: The Initial song is called “Shēngmǔ gē 声母歌”–> (Write the title on top of this poster)

• On the other poster, write the title of the second song: Shēngmǔ yùnmǔ gē 声母韵母歌： In English, it means “Initials and Finals Song” Please also put English under the Chinese title on this song as well.

• The last line of the initials & Finals song is: Wǒmen    lái    chàng    shēngmǔ yùnmǔ gē.

Please write this line in the simplified Chinese.

我们     来       唱       声母      韵母   歌
We   Come  to sing     Initials  &    Finals   song.

	ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	English Definition
	1	我们	我們	wǒ men	we
	2	来	來	lái	to come
	3	唱	唱	chàng	to sing
	4	声母	聲母	shēng mǔ	consonant; the initial consonant (of a Chinese syllable)
	5	韵母	韻母	yùn mǔ	final of a Chinese syllable
	6	歌	歌	gē	song
	ID	Chinese	Trad.	Pinyin	English Definition

Learning resources:

Videos on Chinese Four Tones

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCigK7YwcPY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyS0xAlBEO4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10p2AHD9hmE&list=PLTK9dvuFi-uqka7jxT6DpOKhuPY2wa95

Related Resources on Pinyin:

Videos and other resources to learn Chinese Pinyin –Chinese Pronunciation

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=jj3plQP160E
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsbgSDKjp8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2hrlAGewvY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVKm6eDX2c
• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ultimate+Fun+Way+To+Learn+Chinese+Pinyin
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfX5S2A-X3Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgsflnEgqY
• https://ling-lingchinese.com/2015/01/20/learn-chinese-pinyin/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=JGSQ_ccKexE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCigK7YwcPY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkivv6BTCw

• Use songs to learn Pinying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTMQuoHOVDI (Very cool pinyin song sung by a westerner)

Power Point Slides on Pinyin and four tones (Introduction) by Ling-Ling Shih:

• introduction (Part I)
• Introduction (Part II)
• Introduction (Part III)