Suppose you have commanded Pinyin, and know how to look up Chinese word through online dictionary so far.
Now let's enjoy Chinese culture through one famous TV show: 西游记 （Journey to the west）.
Episode 1 (with Chinese subtitles) http://tv.sohu.com/20100909/n274829142.shtml
Episode 1 (with English subtitles) 5 parts:
http://youtu.be/r2YW9Ld6Jhk
http://youtu.be/OAhgclRqXRI
http://youtu.be/UHhP16BzE6E
http://youtu.be/C7iCAnDlwtM
http://youtu.be/xZrOdD0IOB8
第一集 猴王初问世 Episode 1 Monkey king was born
故事梗概 Story line
在东胜神州傲来国海滨的花果山顶有一块仙石，化出了一个石猴。这石猴灵敏聪慧，他交结群猴，在水帘洞找到安家的好所在。群猴尊石猴为美猴王。
美猴王为寻找长生不老的仙方，独自驾筏，漂洋过海，来到一所渔村。他在斜月三星洞拜见了菩提祖师。祖师为他取名孙悟空。从此悟空参禅悟道，学习武艺，掌握
了七十二般变化的本领。
There's a 花果山(flower&fruit mountain) in 傲来国(country name) located in 东胜神州 (Purvavideha, one of 4 continents in Buddhism legend). On top of the mountain one immortal stone gave birth to a monkey. This stone monkey is intelligent and agile, he made friends with other monkeys, and found a nice home in 水帘洞(Water Curtain Cave). Other monkeys honor him as 美猴王 (Handsome Monkey King). In order to find elixir to be immortal, 美猴王 set out on a raft alone, traveled over seas and oceans, and arrived at a fishing village. In Sideling Moon Three Star Cave (斜月三星洞) he visited and paid respect to 菩提祖师(Pipal Buddha). Master gave him a name - Sun Wukong. From then on, Wukong began to learn Zen and doctrines of Tao, practice Kongfu, and mastered 72 kinds of transformation.
Enjoy!
If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Chinese Language - web term '屌丝'
I assume you know Pinyin by now. You may begin to practice some sentence at http://www.chineselearner.com/speaking/, or other learning sites offering free and boring lessons.
Here I'm trying to assemble some interesting articles, so we can have fun during the learning process.
Today we learn a Chinese web term '屌丝', which I didn't understand till just now :)
屌丝的含义是很深刻的……代表了一类人群……这一类人的特征是: 屌丝们自称穷丑矮挫胖笨撸，自称见人就给人下跪，叫人爷爷。屌丝都没有女朋友，屌丝被人打了只能装死，屌丝能做的职业只有搬砖。屌丝似乎在宣称，反正我就是这么副吊样，再怎么差都无所谓了。可是当谈到情感时，屌丝常常是眼睛湿润。
Translation:
Diao si (Pinyin) has deep meaning. It represents a group of people with these characteristics: they profess they're poor, ugly, short, fat and clumsy. They kneel before anyone and everyone, calling grandpa. Diao si don't have girl friends. When get beaten, they can only play dead. The only job they can have is moving bricks. They seems to say, I'm this low anyway, how can I get any worse. But when it comes to talking about feelings, they usually wet their eyes.
Use
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/pinyin.html to get Pinyin of input text, and
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/annotation.html for text annotation.
Online dictionary at
http://www.nciku.com/.
If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.
Here I'm trying to assemble some interesting articles, so we can have fun during the learning process.
Today we learn a Chinese web term '屌丝', which I didn't understand till just now :)
屌丝的含义是很深刻的……代表了一类人群……这一类人的特征是: 屌丝们自称穷丑矮挫胖笨撸，自称见人就给人下跪，叫人爷爷。屌丝都没有女朋友，屌丝被人打了只能装死，屌丝能做的职业只有搬砖。屌丝似乎在宣称，反正我就是这么副吊样，再怎么差都无所谓了。可是当谈到情感时，屌丝常常是眼睛湿润。
Translation:
Diao si (Pinyin) has deep meaning. It represents a group of people with these characteristics: they profess they're poor, ugly, short, fat and clumsy. They kneel before anyone and everyone, calling grandpa. Diao si don't have girl friends. When get beaten, they can only play dead. The only job they can have is moving bricks. They seems to say, I'm this low anyway, how can I get any worse. But when it comes to talking about feelings, they usually wet their eyes.
Use
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/pinyin.html to get Pinyin of input text, and
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/annotation.html for text annotation.
Online dictionary at
http://www.nciku.com/.
If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Chinese Language - pronunciation system - Pinyin
Pinyin is the name of the pronunciation system for Chinese official language, e.g. Mandarin. It's the first step to learn Chinese language.
http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin.php or
http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/
gives you introduction of Pinyin alphabet, instant sound (when you move mouse over text), and Tones.
Short learning videos for Pinyin alphabet:
Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation (Better Chinese)
Chinese Pinyin in 6 Mins (kid's song version)
Suggested learning videos for Pinyin tones:
Chinese pronunciation Tips 5 - The Tones
If you don't think you can follow above videos, here are detailed ones from '7 days for Mandarin pronunciation':
http://youtu.be/EQAzioCGWdo (Vowels : Simple Vowels a, o, e, i, u)
http://youtu.be/NMUoZjVweVY (Initial Consonants : c, zh, ch, sh, r)
http://youtu.be/0Yav6Gs_lFA (Vowels : Simple Vowels a, o, e, i, u)
http://youtu.be/peqJQQl6_fU (Compound Vowels)
http://youtu.be/HICMfXS-WnA (Tone)
After you command the Pinyin alphabet and tones, we can move to reading simple words in the next session.
If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.
P.S. you're not alone :)
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzk1OTA1Mjg=.html
http://www.instantspeakchinese.com/pinyin.php or
http://www.chineselearner.com/pinyin/
gives you introduction of Pinyin alphabet, instant sound (when you move mouse over text), and Tones.
Short learning videos for Pinyin alphabet:
Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation (Better Chinese)
Chinese Pinyin in 6 Mins (kid's song version)
Suggested learning videos for Pinyin tones:
Chinese pronunciation Tips 5 - The Tones
If you don't think you can follow above videos, here are detailed ones from '7 days for Mandarin pronunciation':
http://youtu.be/EQAzioCGWdo (Vowels : Simple Vowels a, o, e, i, u)
http://youtu.be/NMUoZjVweVY (Initial Consonants : c, zh, ch, sh, r)
http://youtu.be/0Yav6Gs_lFA (Vowels : Simple Vowels a, o, e, i, u)
http://youtu.be/peqJQQl6_fU (Compound Vowels)
http://youtu.be/HICMfXS-WnA (Tone)
After you command the Pinyin alphabet and tones, we can move to reading simple words in the next session.
If you have questions, just put them in comments. I'll try my best to answer them.
For complete list of lessons, please visit http://daytodaychinese.net/Default.aspx?Level=1.
P.S. you're not alone :)
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzk1OTA1Mjg=.html
Sunday, October 30, 2011
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