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    1. The document provides an agenda for a medical Chinese session that includes learning pinyin basics, tones, and an introduction. 2. It explains pinyin pronunciation rules for initials, finals, tone marks, abbreviations, and combinations of tones and initials/finals. 3. Common greetings, numbers, and ways to say dates are introduced in the Chinese and English languages.

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    1. The document provides an agenda for a medical Chinese session that includes learning pinyin basics, tones, and an introduction. 2. It explains pinyin pronunciation rules for initials, finals, tone marks, abbreviations, and combinations of tones and initials/finals. 3. Common greetings, numbers, and ways to say dates are introduced in the Chinese and English languages.

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    The document outlines the basics of pinyin pronunciation including initials, finals, tones, and usage of y and w. It also provides examples of numbers and dates in Chinese.

    The main components of pinyin pronunciation are initials, finals, and tones. Initials are the first consonant sounds, finals are the vowel sounds, and tones represent the pitch of the syllable.

    Tones in pinyin are represented by diacritic marks - the four tones are 1st (level tone), 2nd (rising tone), 3rd (dipped tone), and 4th (falling tone). They are important for conveying meaning.

    Medical Chinese Session 1

    Agenda
    1. Learn pinyin basics
    2. Learn tones
    3. Introduction

    Pinyin basics

    Chinese pinyin pronunciation: initials


    b p m f d t n
    l z c s zh ch sh
    r j q x g k h

    Chinese pinyin pronunciation: finals


    i u
    a ia ua
    o uo
    e ie e
    ai uai
    ei uei
    ao iao
    ou iou
    an ian uan an
    en in uen n
    ang iang uang
    eng ing ueng
    ong iong

    1. Usage of y and w
    When there is no initial sound before a final sound starting with i, y is added as an initial sound.
    For example:
    ia - ya ie -ye iao -yao
    iou -you ian -yan iang -yang
    iong -yong

    If there is no vowel after i, y is added before i.


    For example:
    i - yi in -yin ing -ying

    When there is no initial sound before final sound starting with u, w is added as an initial sound.
    For example:
    ua - wa uo -wo uai -wai
    uei - wei uan - wan uen - wen
    uang - wang ueng - weng

    If there is no vowel after u, w is added before u.


    For example:
    u - wu

    When there is no initial sound before final sound starting with , y is added as an initial sound.
    For example:
    - yu e - yue an - yuan
    n -yun

    2. Usage of mark
    When syllables starting with a, o, e follow other syllables, a mark is used to separate different words.

    For example:
    min ge xian
    ming e xi an

    3. Abbreviations
    Abbreviations of iou, uei and uen
    When there is an initial sound before iou, uei and uen, they are abbreviated as iu, ui and un.
    For Example:
    niou - niu guei - gui luen -lun

    When initials other than n and l proceed finals starting with , changes to u.
    n - n l - l j - ju q - qu

    When uo follows initials b, p, m, or f, u is dropped, resulting in bo, po, mo, or fo.


    buo - bo puo - po muo -mo fuo - fo

    Tones

    Tone Marks Characteristics Example


    1st - Leveled d
    2nd / Rising d
    3rd Dipped d
    4th \ Falling d

    Practice:
    mma (mother) yye (grandfather) ninai (grandmother) bba (father)
    gge (brother) wwa (doll) jijie (older sister) mimei (younger sister)
    zhuzi (table) fngzi (house) bnzi (booklet) jngzi (mirror)
    jnzi (gold) ynzi (silver) zoshang (morning) dshang (floor)
    dngzi (nail) minhua (cotton) yngzi (shadow) ynzi (swallow)

    When two consecutive words both have third tones, pronounce the first word with a second tone.
    For example:
    n ho (hello)

    Introduction

    Chinese English Notes


    n ho Hello
    nn ho Hello (more formal)
    w jio _____ My name is ______
    xi xie Thank you
    b k q Youre welcome
    zi jin Good bye
    du b q Sorry
    mi gun xi Its ok
    lng Zero
    y One
    r Two
    sn Three
    s Four
    w Five
    li Six
    q Seven
    b Eight
    ji Nine
    sh Ten
    sh y Eleven = ten + one
    sh r Twelve = ten + two
    And so on

    r sh Twenty = two ten


    sn sh Thirty = three ten
    And so on
    bi Hundred
    y bi One hundred
    ling bi Two hundred
    nin Year
    yu Month
    ho/ r Day
    r lng y li nin ji yu sh w September 15th 2016
    ho/ r Literal translation: Two zero one
    six year nine month fifteen day

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