Character Flash Cards

hey class,

please find a lovely website for providing us with pre-made flash cards for learning characters in Integrated Chinese. It's organized by lessons.

You can find the link on the right side of this blog.

1)My goal is to be able to communicate in chinese.


2)I want to be able to speak chinese fluently and write a great majority even though it might take time to learn. i'll have to start studying and finally do my homework ><
SORRY Mr. Lin.


3)I wouldn't mind if we could slow down just a bit and focus more on communicating with eachother more. and have u see if were doing ok.

- Tony Padron

Homework

1)My goal is to understand more when people speak in Chinese.


2)I want to improve speaking Chinese and memorizing more characters
to be able to briefly communicate with the Chinese friends.


3) I wish we can watch more Chinese movie this semester.

Juyeon Kim ~

Next semester expectations

1) what are your goals for this semester?
I would like to become alot more fluent in mandarin and to learn more characters.
2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?
I will make sure that i fallow stroke order and turn in all homeworks.
3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?
I would like Mr. Lin to show us another movie and to make Mandarin a little more lively.

-Chad Salter

New Semester, New Beginning

1) what are your goals for this semester?
My goals for this semester are to learn more words/grammer, writing quicker, and speak quicker.

2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?
I won't miss anymore classes. I'll study all the words, not just the required ones.

3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?
I would like to do more speaking as in full long dialogues, so I can get better at speaking. Also maybe more extra sessions like the ones during study hall, but also after school.

-Chris Falzone

1) what are your goals for this semester?
to get a b or higher in the class
2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?
study more often and harder than ever before
3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?
focus on pronunciation, and say some sentences a little more slowly

- Ryan Dibble

All around..goals

1) what are your goals for this semester?:
A)Get better grades and learn more Chineseeee (mandarin)
2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?:
A) Not be as lazy
3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?:
Let us watch Chinese movies

RJ
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My Goals For The New Year

1. This year my goal is to perfect my characters and improve my grade. I hope to learn and recognize as many characters as possible so that I can finally understand what my roommate and her friends are talking about when ever they all come over.

2. To improve my grade I plan on talking to as many Chinese speaking students as possible and practice all my characters so that I will not forget any strokes.

3. I would like Lin Laoshi to have more fun activities to participate in class so it will be more fun. I would also like to suggest that we have a get together and cook some Chinese food and learn a some of the culture through the food because of the importance of food in Chinese culture.

Danielle

improvment

In this semester of Chinese class i would like to learn to recognize more characters, i think now i am much better at the pinyin and hearing and recognizing the character rather than seeing and recognizing. I would also like to just be able to pronounce each character so it doesn't have such an accent to it. The best way i could practice these are to just study the book more and also use the pinyin talker to help my pronunciation.

Goals huh~

1) What are your goals for this semester?
Learn more characters and try to use more and more words to try and learn as much as I possibly can. =)

2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?
Spend more time on the tests checking over my work.

3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?
Go over more words, not just from the book but words you would use in everyday life.

~Stefan

Kris Daoud

The one thing i need to improve in is writing characters. I know all the vocabulary and i can recognize the words and what they mean, it's just writing the characters. To improve my grade i need to practice writing the characters. I would want Mr. Lin to go over the writing of characters more and practice learning them.

Lauren Brochinsky

ok so my goal for this semester is to get good grades and stay focused and actually retain my mandarin.
To improve I plan on making sure I do all my homework and study for the tests and quizes.
And I think Mr. Lin should have us play games in Chinese!!!!!!!!!

new semester...

1) what are your goals for this semester? to become better at listening comprehension.
2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese? try to take the time to and talk to more chinese students so that i can work on my speaking... i've been told that my speaking is really quite bad.
3) What would you like Mr. Lin to do more or less for you?
work more on pernonsiation and say sentences slower so that i can work on understanding what is being asked. and eventually hopefully be able to understand listening parts of tests (the sentence ones)
-Eve Sussman

新年, 新行动/New Actions

Please post your answers to the following questions.

1)What are your goals for the spring semester?
2) What will you do differently to improve your grade and Chinese?
3) What would you like 林老师 to do more or less for you?
4) any other comments?

A hippy website for learning Chinese

www.popupChinese.com

It's a very cool website with many lessons on daily life situational conversations.
Please check this out. It has videos and podcasts.

Winter Break

Over winter break, my family came over and we were celebrating Christmas and i told my aunt and uncle who lived in Singapore and Hong Kong for 6 years, that i took mandarin and they said oh really? They asked me if i can recite the numbers and ask how are you and different kinds of phrases. They were impressed.

Chinese Winter Break

Over the winter break,I went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. They had an exhibit that was inside an actual Chinese house. The tour explained the use of different rooms and how the family lived and how the lifestyle change during the 20th century. I enjoyed learning about Chinese culture on a visual level.

chinese over my break

Over my break i watched a few chinese movies, Kung Fu Hustle among others was my favorite. Evem though it had subtitles it was quite enjoyable. My favorite part was the ending battle scene when the hero uses buddhist palm. I think the whole movie was hilarious!

- Ryan Dibble

Wo de jia qi

During my break there were a few chinese related things. I was at the mall getting christmas presents for my family and i overheard a group of people speaking chinese. i knew it was chinese since they started the conversation saying ni hao. Also during break i taught some my friends how to say a few things in chinese. I also listened to some chinese music, and showed it to my friends too.

-Chris Falzone

breakkk

When break started it was planned that i was going to be playing in A basketball tournament with the Basketball team. However, due to poor weather we were forced to stay overnight at Ca for an extra night. Since dinner was not being served we went to a Chinese restaurant up the street. While we were at the restaurant there was a waitress that everybody was really curious to how old she was, so i dident hesitate to ask her in Chinese. Everyone was incredibly impressed and i went on to tell them all how i took mandrain.

-Austin

Wo de...break!

Over my break I was with a lot of my friends. We were talking about what subjects we were taking in school when I mentioned that I take Chinese. Their mouths dropped open "Chinese?!" they all shouted. They asked me if i could say something. I get this question a lot and i always say the same thing. Qing ba niu nai de gay wo (sorry for the spelling), or please pass the milk.

~Joy~

Over the Winter Break

During the Winter Break, I did not meet any Chinese people who I can try to speak Chinese but I had friends who speak Chinese as native speakers and know lots of characters. I told them what I know and they corrected me some pronounciation. They also told me how to talk about the weather.

Juyeon Kim

My Break

During the break my chinese friend had his birthday party and we went bowling in East Haven. on the way i started writing chinese characters and asking him to correct them if i was wrong. and we also spoke chinese, =D.
i learned how to say Girlfriend in chinese, i THINK it's NU PEN YUO (i dont know the pinyin lol)
~Tony

Chinese activities over break

Over my break I was able to stay active in chinese by practicing with native speakers. I was able to practice three times at different Asian restaurants. I was lucky to a have a chinese waiter all three times and I started by asking "ni3 shi1 zongguoren ma?" Each time they said yes and said "wow, you speak mandarin" and I would say "wo3 shi1 xuesheng." Each waiter was very excited and pleased to learn that I was learning thier language.
-Chad Salter

Chinese related things over break

Over break i visited my relatives who are chinese and had various chinese dishes for new years and christmas. I also watched a movie with chinese subtitles and it was cool to actually recognize some of the characters, even if it was only two or three per subtitle change. I also spoke a little chinese with my relatives and was surprised to learn that my cousins knew a little chinese and could have a conversation with me, even though it was only simple questions and answers.

~Stefan

Chinese related over Xmass Break

I went to london and while i was there i went by the chinatown there. The chinatown in London has almost no one actually living there, except one district where there are a few residents. We ate lunch there, and went to a party that was being held in honor of the owner of a restaurant's daughter.
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RJ

My Break

So over break I only had one thing that related to Mandarin. I was playing this game, and in the game I had to open this box that had Chinese symbols on it. I was so excited that I knew some of the symbols it made me so happy! Haha so basically I love our class <3

-Laurennnnnn

Things I did over break related to Mandarin

First, I really didn't think that I had any exposure to Mandarin, but then I realized that I used it for a requirement for a scout badge (citizenship in the world). I had Chinese food, counted in Mandarin to my 4-year old cousin (which didn't work out so well, she counted in french), and watched a Jackie Chan movie. Okay, I did use my Mandarin this break.

Elliot

so over my break two things related back to chinese... one is more comical then the other. on Christmas day my and my family did the very Jewish thing and went to a movie and chinese. in the chinese restaurant i was looking at there hanging wall drawing trying to figure out what it said.... unfortunately it was all in traditional script and i couldn't figure it out. it was a bummer that's for sure. NOW for my funny story: so on new years day my cousin and i wanted to take a picture of us making the symbols 2009 out of are hands, as you can figure we didn't have enough fingers to make the nine at the end so i told her to make the chinese symbol for nine. it was really funny because looking at the picture now she had her hand facing the opposite direction( towards her body). it probably would sound funnier in person but it made me laugh. I LOVE this class. it always keeps me entertained.
-Eve Sussman

My Holiday

During my Holiday I went to go get my nails done and the lady who was doing my nails was Chinese so I started talking to her ans asking her little things. She seemed pretty surprised that I actually knew something and she even started to help me and tried to teach me the four different tones. Also while in the airplane on my way back to JFK there were two Chinese ladies sitting in the seat in front of me and I tried to understand what the were saying (even thought I was eavesdropping) and I also tried see if I could recognize the different characters on the airplane brochure. Chinese is so much FUN!I am so happy I can now say I can speak a little bit of Chinese YAY!

Danielle Chin

新年快乐, anything Chinese?

Please post here anything or any activity you engaged in over the break that has something to do with the learning of Chinese. It could be a Chinese joke you heard from a friend, a new word you learned, Chinese news you read, a Chinese movie, or some review work you did for this class and etc.