WDCTS-TCML (Washington D.C. Taiwanese School -Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning) Conversation Class Note - Oct 1, 2023

 

1 . I am impressed about everyone’s active participation in reviewing “self-Introduction” by speaking correctly in tones at least two sentences about yourself.  I am proud of your speaking confidently without any fear.  Kudos to you all.  You all deserved the “Moon Cakes” from Teacher Wu.

1)         1) Steven (葛艾倫): I am Steven.  I am a bit tired now because I woke up early to take my daughter, Jen-Jen, to play soccer.  It’s not American Football.  My wife is Taiwanese who came to America when she was two years old.  Her father, my father-in-law, was from Taichung.  Her grandfather was from Changhua.

2)         2) Anna (洋安娜): I am Anna, I am Armenian.  This is my second-year learning Mandarin.  I was out last week because I took my son, 18 years old, to visit Boston.  He would like to go to Harvard and MIT.  But we encourage him to follow his own character traits and interests.  We would not like to draw a line for him to follow.  We went to Boston Fine Arts Museum that has so many Chinese poems.  I still remember the famous poem of his I learned from last year, 《靜夜思》Quiet night thought》.  It’s poetic and nostalgic. Steven (葛艾倫): shared a picture of Li-Bai "Admiring the water-fall" from the museum. 

3)         3) Ricco (熊大東):  My name is Darrel Ricco.  I Chinese name is Bear East.  I love playing tennis.  I also like poems.  My favorite one is 《登鸛雀樓 – Climbing the White Stork Tower》. I study Mandarin at “acclaimed Harvard in Taiwan – National Taiwan University.” 

4)         4) Amy (李愛美):  My name is Amy.  I am American, but my parents are from Vietnam.  I have received my master’s degree from National Taiwan University.  I like the school very much.

5)         5) Sasha (蔡下雪):  My name is Sasha.  I am from Ukraine.  If my wife went abroad to study at Harvard, then I wouldn’t be able to meet and get married to her.  I did have an opportunity to make a presentation at a symposium in National Taiwan University.

2. We demonstrated enthusiastically the role playing in group discussion to share the learning and cultural experience.  We reviewed the homework from last week “Color identification from each continent.”

1) Sasha (蔡下雪):  The Ukraine’s country flag is blue and yellow. 

2) Janice (the teacher吳老師):  I will take two weeks break on December 17, 2023 and January 7, 2024 to take my two grandchildren, 10 and 7 years old,  to find grandparent’s roots in Taiwan. – visiting the elementary schools and libraries.

3) Anna (洋安娜):  I learned with you – it’s different from the roots – it’s homophone – They sound the same but are different in meaning or words.  Learning mandarin is so interesting!

4) Steven (葛艾倫): playing as “Teaching assistant” to help correct Ann’s sentence word order and meaning of the second-year learning Mandarin.  – it’s ordinal numbers as prefixes and adjectives.

3. We reviewed three oceans – The Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and The Indian Oceans.

4. We studied why is the Pacific Ocean called as “TaiPing?”

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5. We studied “Taiping Rebellion 1899-1901” and “Boxer Protocol signed” in Qing Dynasty , 1901

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https://youtu.be/Cco4p5TX0UQ?si=02VAnvYnewMfBWaP (55 Days at Peking - [English Version song] (1963 film) 2:38 minutes

 

6. We reviewed homework from last week ‘The Globe.” 

Appearance, shape  Law, etiquette law, moral standard "Apparatus for measuring, drawing, and experimenting" 外觀、形狀 法律、禮法、道德規範 “供測量、繪圖、實驗用的器具”

The Homework for October 1, 2023 is to write three sentences from each word.  The reason is some of you are still not too familiar with Yi word.  Some of you have already done the following – Good job!

1)     Sasha (蔡下雪):   I know the geography – 我學了地理。

2)     Steven (葛艾倫):  The subway in DC. DC地鐵

3)     Anna (洋安娜):  The Metro in DC. DC Metro.

4)     Sasha (蔡下雪):   I took the subway in New York to go to school. 我在紐約搭地鐵去學校。

7. Please check your emails with my corrections to your oral recording homework of last two weeks.  Sasha (蔡下雪):  and Anna (洋安娜): Good job!

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 1. 今天, 最令我讚賞的是，每個人都積極參與複習“自我介紹”，用正確的口音至少介紹兩句話自我介紹。 我為你們沒有一點害怕、充滿自信地講話而感到自豪。 向你們所有人表示高興。 你們都值得吳老師送你的「月餅」。

    1）史蒂文（葛艾倫）：我是史蒂文。 我現在有點累了，因為我很早就起床帶我的女兒珍珍去踢足球。 這不是美式足球。 我的妻子是台灣人，兩歲時來到美國。 她的父親，也就是我的岳父，是台中人。 她的祖父是彰化人。

    2）安娜（洋安娜）：我是安娜，我是亞美尼亞人。 這是我學習國語的第二年。 上週我出去了，因為我帶著我 18 歲的兒子去波士頓旅遊。 他想去哈佛大學和麻省理工學院。 但我們鼓勵他遵循自己的性格和興趣。 我們不想為他劃一條界線。 我們去了波士頓美術館，那裡有很多中國詩歌。 我還記得去年學過的他的名詩《詩人李白-靜夜思》。 非常詩意和懷舊。

    3) Ricco (熊大東): 我叫Darrel Ricco。 我中文名字叫熊大東。 我喜歡打網球。 我也喜歡詩。 我最喜歡的是《登鸛雀樓》。 我在「台灣著名的哈佛大學——國立台灣大學」學習華語。     

    4）Amy（李愛美）：我叫Amy。 我是美國人，但是我的父母來自越南。 我從獲得國立台灣大學獲得碩士學位。 我非常喜歡這個學校。

    5）蔡下雪：我叫Sasha。 我來自烏克蘭。 如果我太太當年出國去哈佛念書，我就無法和她見面結婚了。 我確實有機會在國立台灣大學的研討會上發表演講。

2. 我們大家在班上討論中, 熱情地展現角色扮演，分享學習和文化經驗。 我們複習了上週的作業「各大洲的顏色辨識」。

    1）蔡下雪：烏克蘭國旗是藍色和黃色。

    2）Janice（吳老師）：我將在2023年12月17日和2024年1月7日休假兩個禮拜. 我要帶著10歲和7歲的兩個孫子去台灣尋找祖父母的根。 – 參觀小學和圖書館。

    3）洋安娜：我“跟”你學華語——它和字 “根”不同——是同音字——它們聽起來一樣，但意思或單字不同。學中文真有意思!

    4）葛艾倫：扮演“助教”，幫助糾正洋安娜 “第二年”的句子詞序和意義。 – 它是作為前綴和形容詞的序數。

3. 我們復習了三大洋—太平洋、大西洋和印度洋。

4.我們討論了為什麼太平洋被稱為「太平」？

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太平洋麥哲倫海峽 為什麼它被稱為太平洋?

5. 我們討論了清朝1901年的“太平天國運動1899-1901”和“簽訂的庚子議定書”

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https://youtu.be/Cco4p5TX0UQ?si=02VAnvYnewMfBWaP（北京55天 - [英文版歌曲]（1963年電影）2:38分鐘

6. 我們複習了上週《地球儀》的作業。

2023 年 10 月 1 日的家庭作業是每個單字寫三個句子。 原因是你們有些人對 “儀” 字還不太熟悉。 你們中有些人已經寫了幾句作業—非常好！

    1) 蔡下雪：我知道地理。

    2）葛艾倫：DC的地鐵。

       3) 洋安娜：華盛頓的地鐵 (Metro)。

    4）蔡下雪：我在紐約搭地鐵去學校。

7. 蔡下雪： 洋安娜：請檢查您的電子郵件，我已經更正了你們過去兩週講話錄音作業。 蔡下雪： 洋安娜： 說得很好！

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1. Jīntiān, zuì lìng wǒ zànshǎng de shì, měi gèrén dōu jījí cānyù fùxí “zìwǒ jièshào”, yòng zhèngquè de kǒuyīn zhìshǎo jièshào liǎng jù huà zìwǒ jièshào. Wǒ wèi nǐmen méiyǒu yīdiǎn hàipà, chōngmǎn zìxìn de jiǎnghuà ér gǎndào zìháo. Xiàng nǐmen suǒyǒu rén biǎoshì gāoxìng. Nǐmen dōu zhídé wú lǎoshī sòng nǐ de `yuèbǐng'.

    1) Steven (葛艾倫): Wǒ shì shǐ dì wén. Wǒ xiànzài yǒudiǎn lèile, yīnwèi wǒ hěn zǎo jiù qǐchuáng dài wǒ de nǚ'ér zhēn zhēn qù tī zúqiú. Zhè bùshì měishì zúqiú. Wǒ de qīzi shì táiwān rén, liǎng suì shí lái dào měiguó. Tā de fùqīn, yě jiùshì wǒ de yuèfù, shì táizhōng rén. Tā de zǔfù shì zhānghuà rén.

    2) Anna (洋安娜): Wǒ shì ānnà, wǒ shì yàměiníyǎ rén. Zhè shì wǒ xuéxí guóyǔ de dì èr nián. Shàng zhōu wǒ chūqùle, yīnwèi wǒ dàizhe wǒ 18 suì de érzi qù bōshìdùn lǚyóu. Tā xiǎng qù hāfó dàxué hé má shěng lǐgōng xuéyuàn. Dàn wǒmen gǔlì tā zūnxún zìjǐ dì xìnggé hé xìngqù. Wǒmen bùxiǎng wèi tā huà yītiáo jièxiàn. Wǒmen qùle bōshìdùn měishùguǎn, nàlǐ yǒu hěnduō zhōngguó shīgē. Wǒ hái jìdé qùnián xuéguò de tā de míng shī “shīrén lǐbái-jìng yè sī”. Fēicháng shīyì hé huáijiù.

    3) Ricco (熊大東):   Wǒ jiào Darrel Ricco. Wǒ zhōngwén míngzì jiào xióng dàdōng. Wǒ xǐhuān dǎ wǎngqiú. Wǒ yě xǐhuān shī. Wǒ zuì xǐhuān de shì “dēng guàn què lóu”. Wǒ zài `táiwān zhùmíng de hāfó dàxué——guólì táiwān dàxué'xuéxí huáyǔ.        

    4) Amy (李愛美):   Wǒ jiào Amy. Wǒ shì měiguó rén, dànshì wǒ de fùmǔ láizì yuènán. Wǒ cóng huòdé guólì táiwān dàxué huòdé shuòshì xuéwèi. Wǒ fēicháng xǐhuān zhège xuéxiào.

    5) Sasha (蔡下雪):   Wǒ jiào Sasha. Wǒ láizì wūkèlán. Rúguǒ wǒ tàitài dāngnián chūguó qù hāfó niànshū, wǒ jiù wúfǎ hé tā jiànmiàn jiéhūnle. Wǒ quèshí yǒu jīhuì zài guólì táiwān dàxué de yántǎo huì shàng fābiǎo yǎnjiǎng.

2. Wǒmen dàjiā zài bān shàng tǎolùn zhōng, rèqíng de zhǎnxiàn juésè bànyǎn, fēnxiǎng xuéxí hé wénhuà jīngyàn. Wǒmen fùxíle shàng zhōu de zuòyè `gè dàzhōu de yánsè biànshì'.

    1) 蔡下雪: Wūkèlán guóqí shì lán sè hé huángsè.

    2) Janice（吳老師）: Wǒ jiàng zài 2023 nián 12 yuè 17 rì hé 2024 nián 1 yuè 7 rì xiūjià liǎng gè lǐbài. Wǒ yào dàizhe 10 suì hé 7 suì de liǎng gè sūnzi qù táiwān xúnzhǎo zǔfùmǔ de gēn. – Cānguān xiǎoxué hé túshū guǎn.

    3) 洋安娜: Wǒ “gēn” nǐ xué huáyǔ——tā hé zì “gēn” bùtóng——shì tóngyīn zì——tāmen tīng qǐlái yīyàng, dàn yìsi huò dānzì bùtóng.  Xué zhōngwén zhēn yǒuyìsi!

    4) 葛艾倫: Bànyǎn “zhùjiào”, bāngzhù jiūzhèng yáng ānnà “Dì èr nián” de jù zǐ cíxù hé yìyì. – Tā shì zuòwéi qiánzhuì hé xíngróngcí de xùshù.

3. Wǒmen fùxíle sān dàyáng—tàipíngyáng, dàxīyáng hé yìndùyáng.

4. Wǒmen tǎolùnle wèishéme tàipíngyáng bèi chēng wèi `tàipíng'?

Tàipíngyáng màizhélún hǎixiá wèishéme tā bèi chēng wèi tàipíngyáng?

5. Wǒmen tǎolùnle qīngcháo 1901 nián de “tàipíngtiānguó yùndòng 1899-1901” hé “    qiāndìng de gēng zi yìdìngshū”

    yìhétuán_pànluàn_gēng zi_péicháng

    https://Youtu.Be/Cco4p5TX0UQ?Si=02VAnvYnewMfBWaP(běijīng 55 tiān - [yīngwén bǎn     gēqǔ](1963 nián diànyǐng)2:38 Fēnzhōng

6. Wǒmen fùxíle shàng zhōu “dìqiúyí” de zuòyè.

2023 Nián 10 yuè 1 rì de jiātíng zuòyè shì měi gè dānzì xiě sān gè jùzi. Yuányīn shì nǐmen yǒuxiē rén duì “yí” zì hái bù tài shúxī. Nǐmen zhōng yǒuxiē rén yǐjīng xiěle jǐ jù zuòyè—fēicháng hǎo!

    1) 蔡下雪: Wǒ zhīdào dìlǐ.

    2) 葛艾倫: DC dì dìtiě.

    3) 洋安娜: Huáshèngdùn dì dìtiě.

    4) 蔡下雪: Wǒ zài niǔyuē dā dìtiě qù xuéxiào.

7. Cài xià xuě: Yáng ānnà: Qǐng jiǎnchá nín de diànzǐ yóujiàn, wǒ yǐjīng gēngzhèngle nǐmen guòqù liǎng zhōu jiǎnghuà lùyīn zuòyè. Cài xià xuě: Yáng ānnà: Fēicháng hǎo!

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