Mandarin
Students from Year 3 to Year 6 participate in the Mandarin language program for 45 minutes per week. Students explore language structures and cultural similarities and differences between China and Australia through a variety of collaborative tasks. They develop basic conversational skills through role plays, short stories, songs and poems, vocabulary recognition games, and teacher/student discourse.
Through their study of the Mandarin language, students at Highgate Primary School develop an understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity in a global society.
Everyday Mandarin - měirì hànyǔ 每日汉语
Counting to 20 in Mandarin
1 一 yī
2 二 èr
3 三 sān
4 四 sì
5 五 wǔ
6 六 liù
7 七 qī
8 八 bā
9 九 jiǔ
10 十 shí
11 十一 shí yī
12 十二 shí èr
13 十三 shí sān
14 十四 shí sì
15 十五 shí wǔ
16 十六 shí liù
17 十七 shí qī
18 十八 shí bā
19 十九 shí jiǔ
20 二十 èr shí
Verbs
Listen - tīng 听
Say - shuō 说
Read - dú 读
Write - xiě 写
Eat - chī 吃
Drink - hē 喝
Social
Me - wǒ 我
We/Us - women 我们
You - nǐ 你
You (plural) - nǐmen 你们
He - tā 他
She - tā 她
Them/They - tāmen 他们
Hello - nǐhǎo 你好
Goodbye - zàijiàn 再见
Thank you - xièxie 谢谢
You're welcome - bù kèqi 不客气
Sorry - duìbuqí 对不起
Don't mention it - méi guānxi 没关系
Please - qǐng 请