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JC2A Final Project

2009-08-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

JC2 A Final Project 15%

旅游中国

The Final project will be about a travel plan to an interesting city in China.

You need to consider the following parts when you plan your trip.

1. Introducing this city (Name, location, history, why it is famous?......)

2. Suggest tourism places in the city and explain why people should visit it.

You can use images to help you in this part.

3. Make a budget plan. Find out the cost of travel fee from Sydney Australia to that city as well as local transportation fee in that city (train, bus, ferry, airplane costs). You also need to consider accommodation fees and food fees. List all the cost as using points like

4. Give suggestions of the best way to travel to that city according to your budget plans

and your tourism places suggestions.

5. Post it to your Chinese blog no late than the 19/09/2009.

Useful Chinese resources

2009-06-14T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hi, I have found a few useful Chinese tones study tools. If anyone is interested, have a try as it is really fun!

For practicing tones
1.

SpeakGoodChinese (program for training tone pronunciation, see discussion). You can download and record your voice in this program, it will tell you how well your tones are.
Start from Pinyin: Alphabet of Pinyin (with .wav audio)
Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation Guide (no audio)
Pinyin Practice (B)
Romanization Explained
Pinyin Wiki

If you would like to find out more useful tools for improving your Chinese, click here

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=9739

You can also go to
http://www.yunxue.cn/game.php?action=search&subject=chengyu, there's a lot of flash cartoons about studying Chengyu in Chinese.

Term 2 Chinese blog

2009-06-08T21:41:00.000-07:00

Thanks everyone for doing a fantastic job of blogging in term 1.

In this term, we are going to keep writing our blogs.

The new requirements are:

1. In this term, each of you need to post 4 blogs in Chinese by week 10 which is the 4th of July, 2009.

2. At least one blog has to cover a topic we learned and discussed in class.

3. The others can be anything related to your daily life and studies.

4. Year 7 & 8 students need to write at least 100 characters in each blog.

Year 9 & 10 students need to write at least 150 characters in each blog.

5. Each student has to make valuable comments on at least one other student's blog.

(There will be 1 extra mark for those who make valuable comments on their peers' work).

Enjoy Blogging in term 2!

天下无贼

2009-04-03T18:35:00.000-07:00

A World Without Thieves (天下无贼;pinyin: Tiānxià Wú Zéi) is an award-winning Chinese action / drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You and Li Bingbing. The plot is centered around a naïve village boy who does not believe in the existence of thieves. Returning home on board a train with his work savings of ¥60,000 in cash, he soon becomes the target of many thieves. The film explores the theme of the fundamental human goodness and also addresses humorously the issue of rampant thievery on public transport in Mainland China. (sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Without_Thieves)

今天我们一起看了天下无贼的电影，希望同学们都喜欢。上面是wikipedia里关于天下无贼的介绍，如果你有兴趣，可以去DVD SHOP 买这个电影看。

我们来猜猜最后发生了什么。(Let's guess what happened in the end)

1. 你觉得小叶(The girl with Uncle Lee)是警察吗？(Do you think Xiao Ye is a policewoman too?)
2. 傻根的钱最后丢了没有？(Did Root lose his money in the end?)

How to install Chinese on Windows

2009-03-27T22:01:00.000-07:00

1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
(If the Control Panel is in "Category view") Select "Date, Time, Language and Regional options."
2. Open the "Regional and Language Options" icon.
3. Choose the "Languages" tab, and ensure the "Install files for East Asian languages" is checked, as per the screenshot below:

4. Click the "Details" button to open the "Text services and input languages" dialog.
5. If "Chinese" is not listed in the "Installed Services" box, click "Add".
6. If you can't find "Chinese" in the installed services box, you need to download the software at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx This is a free software from microsoft . Click download Global IME for Office XP
7. In the "Input Language" list, choose "Chinese (PRC)". The "Keyboard layout" should default to "Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0". Click "Ok" on both dialogs to return to the "Regional and Language Options".
8. Click "Ok", you will probably need to insert your Windows CD for the files to be installed.
9. The language bar should now have appeared in the bottom right of the taskbar. It should default to English - "EN".
10. Click on the "EN" button to show the available languages:

11. By changing the language to "CH", you can now type in Pinyin. You can change the current language by pressing "ALT" + "SHIFT" on your keyboard.

Resource: http://www.fozza.com/zhongwen/guides/text-windows.php

For Mac Computer users, please check http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120063

and choose "简体中文"

Hope it helps.

Create your blog: Requirements and Instructions

2009-03-13T03:27:00.000-07:00

Requirements:

1. At least 5 blog entries by 09, May 2009

2. The first blog should be on the topic of "Spring Festival". Year 7 & 8 students need to write at least 80 Chinese characters. Year 9 & 10 students need to write at least 120 Chinese characters.

3. The other blogs can be on any topics related to students' daily life and/or topics covered in class. Year 7 & 8 students need to writeat least 80 characters in each blog. Year 9 & 10 students need to write at least 120 characters per blog.

4. Each student has to make comments on at least one other student's blog. Please exchange your blog address with your peers.

5. All students have to send their blog address to Miss Jiang at vivian_jm@hotmail.com no later than 22/03/2009.

Instructions for creating a blog on blogger:

Step 1: Go to http://www.blogger.com/, choose "create your blog now"

Step 2: Create New account, setup your password and your display name

Step 3: Name your blog. Also please write something describing your blog in this step.

Step 4: Choose a template for your blog

Step 5: Start writng your blog!

6. Check http://www.slideshare.net/Marcus9000/how-to-use-blogger, this is a slideshow which tells you how to use blogger.

Also, please check this link http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=13005 to find out how to type Pinyin in word documents.

For those who can't type Chinese characters on their computer, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx This is a piece of free software from Microsoft. Click download Global IME for Office XP , you'll be able to type Chinese on your PC soon.

Have fun!

If you want to add other students to your blogroll, simply go to "add page elements" on blogger, and choose add tools, there will be a blog roll tool. You can add other students' blog addresses and check their blogs regularly (see below).

to my girls!

2008-09-24T02:49:00.000-07:00

亲爱的同学们，

I just wanted to say, thanks for all of you who gave me a wonderful time in Beverly Hills and thanks for this great 北京欢迎你 present! I uploaded it on this blog and I really think it was a great piece of work!

I wish all of you the best of luck and enjoy your Chinese studies in the future! You are my favorite students in my 5 week's of practicum and I'll never forget you girls! Hope I'll get a chance to see all of you again soon.

For your Chinese blog, I wish you can keep on posting to it in the future. It is a fun piece of work and it is always good to share your feelings with your friends, and sometimes with your teacher. Hope we can keep in touch using blog or email or msn. :)

Good luck and best wishes!

Love

Vivian Jiang

汉语桥Video

2008-09-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

Hi girls,

Check here. This is from the 汉语桥(Chinese Bridge) 演讲比赛(Speech contest)。The contestant is singing 北京欢迎你 which is one of the main promotion songs for Beijing Olympic. It is very good. If you like this song, we can try to learn it in our next class!

The 'eight don't asks' of the Olympics

2008-09-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

Posters are appearing around Beijing guiding locals about how to interact with the (few) foreigners coming for the Summer Games.

The posters instruct residents on the “eight don’t asks” when chatting with foreign guests. Here’s a rough translation, courtesy of the Peaceful Rise blog:

Don’t ask about income or expenses,
don’t ask about age,
don’t ask about love life or marriage,
don’t ask about health,
don’t ask about someone’s home or address,
don’t ask about personal experience,
don’t ask about religious beliefs or political views,
don’t ask what someone does.

So what is one to ask? Maybe the relative merits of fencing versus marathon swimming?

Now, for the foreigners out there, here’s the No. 1 dud question to ask a Chinese person. It’s a question that will draw a blank, non-comprehending stare:

“Hey, pal, tell me about your president. Is he doing a good job?”

Artical sourced from www.yahoo.com

奥运期间的“八不问”
1. 不问收入支出。
2. 不问年龄大小。
3. 不问恋爱婚姻。
4. 不问身体健康。
5. 不问家庭住址。
6. 不问个人经历。
7. 不问信仰政见。
8. 不问所忙何事。

sourced from : www.baidu.com