Modern Chinese language (1)

This course mainly focuses on the basic knowledge and theories of the pronunciation, vocabulary, and Chinese characters of modern Mandarin Chinese. Through learning this course, learners can master the basic knowledge of phonetics, vocabulary, and characters in Modern Mandarin Chinese. This includes the ability to correctly pronounce and speak Mandarin, correctly write the stroke order and individual strokes of Chinese characters, and grasp semantic categories, semantic fields, and the relationship between context and word meanings. Additionally, learners can understand the cultural factors, cognitive elements, and thinking characteristics embedded in Mandarin Chinese phonetics, vocabulary, and characters, while appreciating the aesthetic beauty of the Chinese language; At the same time, you must have certain language research capabilities.

Syllabus

Introduction

0.1 Introduction
0.2 Modern Chinese dialects
0.3 How to learn modern Chinese language well? Introduction

Chapter I Phonetics

1.1 Overview of phonetics
1.2 Physiological and social attributes of phonetics
1.3 Phonetic units
1.4 voice tone
1.5 Syllable
1.6 Syllable "轻生", "儿化"
1.7 Tone change of “儿化”, “啊”
1.8 Consonant and initial consonant (pronunciation)
1.9 Consonant and initial consonant (pronunciation method)
1.10 Vowels and finals
1.11 Final structure analysis

Chapter II Chinese Characters

2.1 The nature of characters, world ancient characters, and the origin of Chinese characters
2.2 Characteristics and functions of Chinese characters
2.3 Shape of Chinese characters
2.4 Chinese character structure
2.5 Stroke order of Chinese characters
2.6 Chinese character creation methods
2.7 Analysis of Chinese character creation methods
2.8 Analysis of Chinese character creation methods (pictophonetic)