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Business Mandarin MMS Semester - 1
Faculty: Dr. Varnana SarkarGNVS Institute of Management
The Great Wall of China
Why learn Chinese?
China and the World1/5th of the world's population lives in ChinaCountries with large overseas Chinese populations include Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia. Most countries have a Chinatown in the city. This picture was taken by a photographer in Chinatown in Singapore.
Chinese equivalents
India and China
Made in China
Made in China
Global Village – A Flat World
• Using Skype, calling China costs a few cents per minute.
• As Thomas Friedman has written, the world is becoming flat so communication, ideas, and goods are traveling faster and faster between countries including the US and China
• Over 16,000 US companies sell products in China
Who speaks Chinese?
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is fluent in Mandarin Chinese
Who Speaks Chinese?The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner studied Chinese and attended Beijing University is also fluent in Chinese.
Who Speaks Chinese?The former Utah Governor, Ambassador to China, and Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese (he learned it as a missionary in Taiwan and has an adopted child from China).
Millionaires in China
Why study Chinese
• Chinese is the fastest growing Foreign Language being taught in US schools
• Mandarin Chinese is the most used language on the Internet
Why Study Chinese as a Management Student
• Survival - Mayor Daly's quote: “We want to give our young people opportunities to advance ... and [Chinese] is a great opportunity to survive in today's economy.’’
• Many companies are expanding their business to China and many others are establishing business relationships with Chinese companies.
Management Student’s reasons for learning Chinese
• I have Chinese clients. • Learning Chinese will help me understand what
they are thinking and hopefully get more clients.
• I am doing China-related industrial research. Most materials are written in Chinese.
• Very few Indians can speak Chinese, if I can, I will have an edge over others, perhaps ask for a better salary
Growth of Chinese Language Learning Programmes
Business Mandarin
What’s it all about?
What is the difference?
Chinese• Consists of dialects -
Mandarin (most widely spoken) and Cantonese. Al Hakka, Wu, Gan, Ping, Jin, Xiang, etc.
• Mandarin IS Chinese, but Chinese is not just Mandarin, Chinese has more dialects
Mandarin• Official group of related
dialects of China• It is ‘putonghua’ or
Standard Chinese or Simplified Chinese
• National Standard Language of China
Origin of Mandarin
• From Hindi ‘mantri’, from Sanskrit ‘mantrin’ meaning ‘minister’
• Originally meant as language of the official of the Chinese Empire
• Chinese name ‘Guanhua’• Jesuit Missionaries of 16th century called it
Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà (官话 /官話 ), or "language of the officials"
Jesuit missionaries of 16th Century
Subgroups of Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
How to speak Mandarin
The Basics of Mandarin
The Four Tones of Chinese language
• baK• ba• ba• ba• http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=laXqwR9hfJo
New Words
• nǐ hǎoHello你好
• nín hǎoHello (polite form) 您好
• wǒ shì …I am…我是
New Words
• maquestion particle嗎
• nequestion particle呢
• yěalso也
New Words
• xiān shengMister; sir先生
• mángbusy忙
• hěnvery很
Chinese Numbers
Dialogue 1
• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do!• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do!
New Words
• ni – you• hao – good, well• kou – mouth• bai – white• hei – black, dark• gei – to give• lai – to come
Dialogue
• Nĭ hăo!• How do you do! (singular)• Nimen hao!• How do you do (plural)• Mang ma?• Are you busy?• Hen mang.• Yes, I am.
New Words
• nimen – you (plural)• mang – busy• ma – an interrogative particle• hen – very• nan – difficult• kan – to look, to have a look• leng – cold• dong – to understand• heiban - blackboard
Dialogue - Revision
• Ni hao! (Hello! How are you?)• Ni hao! (Hello! How are you?)• Ni mang ma? (Are you busy?)• Hen mang. Ni mang bu mang? (Very busy. Are you busy or not busy?)• Bu mang. (Not busy)
Dialogue
• Nan ma? (Is it difficult)• Bu nan. (Not difficult)• Dong le ma? (Do you understand?)• Dong le (Yes, I/we do)
Revision Quiz• Write the English word for the following:• 1. hen nan• 2. nimen • 3. kan• 4. dong• 5. heiban• 6. lai• 7. gei• 8. kou• 9. bai• 10. hei• 11. mang• 12. nan
Dialogue 1
• A: Nǐ hǎo, wǒ shì Yǎ Xīn. B: Yǎ Xīn nǐ hǎo. Wǒ xìng Chén, jiào Chén Zhōng Xīng. A: Chén xiān sheng, nǐ hěn máng ma? B: Hěn máng. Nǐ ne? A: Wǒ yě máng.
• A: Hello, I am Ya Xin. B: Hello Ya Xin. My family name is Chen. My full name is Chen Zong Xing. A: Mr. Chen, are you busy? B: Very busy, and you? A: I am also busy.
VERBSEnglish Chinese English Chinese
Is (to be, permanent state) Shì to arrive Dàodáto be (location ‘at’ going at some place) Zài to owe, ought to,
must Yīnggāi
to have (to possess) Yǒu to put Fàngzhì
to do Zuò to place Fàngzhì
to make Shǐ to believe Xiāngxìn
to be able to (can) Nénggòu to speak/talk Fāyán/Shuō
to say/tell Shuō/Gàosu to read Yuèdú
to go Qù to sleep Shuìjiào
to see Kàn to understand Liǎojiě
to give Gěi to find Zhǎodào
to eat Chī to call Dǎ diànhuà
to know (info) Zhīdào to come Lái
to want Xiǎng yào
shēntĭ- health
• Nǐ hǎo!• (How do you do!)• Nǐ hǎo!• (How do you do!)• Nǐ shēntĭ hǎo ma? • (How is your health?/ How are you?)• Hěn hǎo, xièxie.• (Fine, thank you.)
Nice to meet you
• Wŏ hĕn gāoxìng rènshi nĭ (wŏ-I am, hĕn-very) gāoxìng- happy, rènshi- to know, nĭ -YOU)
• Nice to meet you.• Wŏ yĕ hĕn gāoxìng rènshi nĭ (wŏ- I am, yĕ –also, hĕn- very, gāoxìng- happy, rènshi- to know, nĭ - you)• Nice to meet you too!
Hate - Hèn
verb
恨 hate, regret
讨厌 hate
怨恨 hate
恶 hate, detest, loathe
忌恨 hate
恼恨 hate, resent, detest
瘅 hate, condemn
厌恨 hate, detest, abhor, extremely dislike, disgust, find insufferable
腻烦 hate, sick of, be bored, loathe
怼 hate, dislike
Hate - Hèn恶心 hate, loathe
疾 hate, abhor
憝 hate, dislike
恚恨 abhor, feel bitter, execrate, detest, hate, be in a bad temper
柸 bear grudge, hate
noun
怼 hate, dislike
Numbers 11-2011 shí yī 十一12 shí èr 十二13 shí sān 十三14 shí sì 十四15 shí wǔ 十五16 shí liù 十六17 shí qī 十七18 shí bā 十八19 shí jiǔ 十九20 èr shí 二十
Numbers 21-3021 èr shí yī 二十一22 èr shí èr 二十二etc
30 sān shí 三十40 sì shí 四十50 wǔ shí 五十60 liù shí 六十70 qī shí 七十80 bā shí 八十90 jiǔ shí 九十
Numbers 100-1000100 yì bǎi 一百101 yì bǎi líng yī 一百零一102 yì bǎi líng èr 一百零二etc
1000 yì qiān 一千1001 yì qiān líng yī 一千零一etc
10,000 yì wàn 一萬
What are you studying?• A: Nǐ xuéxí shénme ?• (What are you studying?)• B: Wǒ xuéxí Hànyǔ.• (I am studying Chinese.)• A: Tā xuéxí shénme?• (What is he studying?)• B: Tā yě xuéxí Hànyǔ.• (He is also studying Chinese.)• A: Hànyǔ nán ma?• (Is Chinese difficult?)• B: Hànyǔ bù nán.• (No, it isn’t.)
What are you doing?• Nǐ zuò shénme ne? (What are you doing?)• Wǒ xiě Hànzì ne. ( I am writing Chinese characters.)• Tā zuò shénme ne? (What is she doing?)• Tā niàn shēngcí ne. (She is reading aloud new words)• Tāmen zuò shénme ne? (What are they doing?)• Tāmen tīng lùyīn ne.(They are listening to the audio recording.)
Is this/ is that?• Zhè shì shū ma?• (Is this a book?)• Zhè shì shū.• (This is a book)• Nà shì bào ma? • (Is that a newspaper?)• Nà shì bào.• (That is a newspaper.)• Nà shì shénme?• (What is that?)• Nà shì huàbào.• (That is a pictorial.)
New wordsWhat is this?
• Zhè – this
What is this?
• Shū – book
What is this?
• Nà – that
What is this?
• Bào / Bàozhǐ – newspaper
What is this?
• Huàbào - pictorial
Days of the week
Day in English Chinese PinyinMonday xīngqīyīTuesday xīngqīèr
Wednesday xīngqīsānThursday xīngqīsì
Friday xīngqīwŭSaturday xīngqīliùSunday xīngqītiān