#學漢語 Kids Learn Mandarin - Adults vs Kids 大人 vs 小孩 | Beginner Lesson 1.9 | Little Chinese Learners

xiǎo péng yǒu，kuài lái zhè lǐ lái dào zhōng wén de tiān dì tīng gù shì、wán yóu xì kuài kuài lè lè dì xué xí wǒ men yī qǐ lái nǔ lì hàn zì biàn dé hǎo róng yì zài zhè lǐ ，wǒ hé nǐ biān wán biān xué xiào xī xī xué xí xué xí zhōng wén， xué xí zhōng wén，hǎo yǒu qù！ xiǎo péng yǒu，nǐ men hǎo！ Welcome back to Little Chinese Learners. wǒ shì Cindy lǎo shī。 Thank you for submitting your homework. Let’s see some of the writing practice examples your classmates sent in! Look at these beautiful Chinese handwriting. I’m so proud of you! Since you've mastered the Chinese characters for dà and xiǎo let’s drop them into our learning jar! dà xiǎo So far, we've learned many animal names. lǎo shǔ gǒu mǎ zhū But what about us? Do you know what kind of animal we are? Are we shān yáng？ No…. Are we tù zǐ？ No…. That's right! Some of you said humans or persons! Let’s learn to say that in Mandarin. To say person in Chinese, we say rén rén rén Can you try it? rén Good job! rén Let’s write it. But to help us write this, let’s reveal a Mandarin Secret first! The hint of this secret is… pictures! Have you ever wondered where Mandarin words came from? A long long time ago, before people could write, they drew pictures. Over time, the pictures became simpler and simpler until they became the words we know of today. The Chinese characters formed this way are called xiàng xíng zì, or "picture characters". rén has been one of those characters. It started out with a picture of a person – with the head on top and two legs. Almost like he's walking. To write it, we start at the top. with the stroke that curves to the left. That gives us the person's "head" and "left leg"! Then, we draw another stroke that slants to the right to give us a "right leg" and that it. Now you try it. Great. We are all rén, but we are not all the same. Some of us are bigger. And some of us are smaller. Do you remember the words for big and small? That’s right. We used the words dà, xiǎo. How do you think we call “big people” in Chinese? If you guess dà rén, you are right! In Mandarin, we call grownups dà rén Big person. dà rén dà rén Now you try it! dà rén Great! dà rén Hmm… if we call grown-ups like me dà rén Do we call kids xiǎo rén? Nonono..., that's not right. xiǎo rén does not mean children. It actually means someone not very nice. For children, we use the special character hái. xiǎo hái Little child xiǎo hái xiǎo hái Now you try it! xiǎo hái Fantastic. xiǎo hái Now you can say dà rén and xiǎo hái in Chinese! So let’s play a game based on what you just learned. zhè shì xiǎo hái de。 zhè shì dà rén de 。 zhè shì xiǎo hái de。 zhè shì dà rén de 。 zhè shì xiǎo hái de。 zhè shì dà rén de 。 Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed the game. Now that we can say dà rén and xiǎo hái, it’s time to make some sentences. Let’s call out some words from our learning jar to help me out! Come on tiles, give me a sentence! wǒ shì xiǎo hái。 I am a child. wǒ shì xiǎo hái。 wǒ shì xiǎo hái。 Your turn. wǒ shì xiǎo hái。 You did it! wǒ shì xiǎo hái。 Now that works for you but I am a grownup. So to say "you are a grownup", we say nǐ shì dà rén。 You are a grownup. nǐ shì dà rén。 nǐ shì dà rén。 Now you try it! nǐ shì dà rén。 Fantastic! nǐ shì dà rén。 These are great sentences but what if I want to say… I am NOT a child. To say that, we need the character bù. To me, this character looks like a child shaking his head, and saying Uh-uh, NO WAY! And that’s what it means. bù means no. bù bù It’s got a fourth stomping tone just like the word No. bù Now you try it! bù Great! bù Now that is usual sound. But sometimes it would take on the second tone. bú just to make a sound smoother Let’s use it in some sentences and you will see what I mean. wǒ bù shì xiǎo hái。 I am not a child. wǒ bù shì gǒu。 I am not a dog. nǐ bù shì lǎo shǔ。 You are not a mouse. How do you say, "I’m not a horse"? wǒ bù shì mǎ。 What about… you are not a monkey. nǐ bù shì hóu zǐ。 Great! Now do you remember how we used the word de to tell people what belongs to us? zhè shì wǒ de。 This is mine. nà shì nǐ de。 That is yours. We can also use bù in these sentences. zhè bù shì wǒ de。 This is not mine. nà bù shì nǐ de。 That is not yours. I know that this is a little difficult. I've got a song to help you out. Let’s do some singing to practice what we’ve just learned. wǒ men shì xiǎo hái，wǒ men shì xiǎo hái rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái wǒ men shì xiǎo hái，wǒ men shì xiǎo hái rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái mā mā shì dà rén，bà bà shì dà rén nǐ men dōu bù shì xiǎo hái，qǐng bù yào jìn lái mā mā shì dà rén，bà bà shì dà rén nǐ men dōu bù shì xiǎo hái，qǐng bù yào jìn lái mā mā shì dà rén，bà bà shì dà rén nǐ men dōu bù shì xiǎo hái，qǐng bù yào jìn lái mā mā shì dà rén，bà bà shì dà rén nǐ men dōu bù shì xiǎo hái，qǐng bù yào jìn lái nǐ shì xiǎo hái ma？nǐ shì xiǎo hái ma？ rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái nǐ shì xiǎo hái ma？nǐ shì xiǎo hái ma？ rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái nǐ shì dà rén ma？nǐ shì dà rén ma？ rú guǒ nǐ yě shì dà rén，qǐng bù yào jìn lái nǐ shì dà rén ma？nǐ shì dà rén ma？ rú guǒ nǐ yě shì dà rén，qǐng bù yào jìn lái wǒ men shì xiǎo hái，wǒ men shì xiǎo hái rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái wǒ men shì xiǎo hái，wǒ men shì xiǎo hái rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī q jìn lái rú guǒ nǐ yě shì xiǎo hái，qǐng yī qǐ jìn lái nǐ shì xiǎo hái，wǒ bù shì xiǎo hái。 We can use bù in many ways. For example, if I ask you… do you want to sing the song again? You can say hǎo if you want to or you can say bù hǎo if you don’t want to. It’s a very important word so we better learn to write it! To write bù, we start with a flat line… just like yī. We write it from left to right. zuǒ dào yòu Next, we draw a slanted stroke... starting from the middle and going to the left. The third stroke is a straight line, right down the middle. And finally, we draw a shorter stroke to the right... and that's it! We've written bù with only four strokes! Now you try it! Whew, we learned quite a bit in this lesson. We learned to say xiǎo hái and dà rén. We learned to write rén and bù. Plus, we learned many different sentences using the words wǒ shì and wǒ bù shì. Let’s show off your learning first with some writing practice for rén and bù. Choose your favorite colors to trace each character and when you’re feeling confident, you can write the character on your own. For the second part of today’s homework, it’s time to read your second Chinese book! Download this book from the homework link and send me a recording of you reading this book out loud! As always, you can print this book out and add it to your home library of books! This was not an easy lesson, but I am so proud of you! Thank you for working so hard. Keep up the good work! wǒ men xià cì zài jiàn！