The Newbie Course

Pre-Unit

How to use ChinesePod

1.

Learning about Levels

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2.

All about the lesson content

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3.

Personalizing ChinesePod

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4.

Ways of using ChinesePod

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5

Introduction to Pinyin

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Week 1

Getting started - Greetings and Introductions

1.

What's your name?

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2.

Good morning

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3.

What's up?

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4.

Long Time No See

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5.

Pinyin: Sections 1-2

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Week 2

Places

1.

Getting Nationalities Straight

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2.

Where do you live?

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3.

Do you like China?

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4.

Where is the bathroom

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5.

Pinyin: Sections 3-4

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Week 3

Numbers and Time

1.

Days of the week

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2.

Months

0864

3.

What time is it?

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4.

Asking for a phone number

0597

5.

Pinyin: Section 4: R

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Week 4

Jobs

1.

Business Cards

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2.

What's Your Job?

1226

3.

What is your job?

0927

4.

Explaining Your Occupation

0077

5.

Pinyin: Sections 5-6

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Week 5

Family

1.

How many people are in your family?

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2.

Son or Daughter

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3.

Identifying family members.

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4.

All in the family.

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5.

Pinyin: Sections 7-8

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Week 6

Getting Around

1.

Transportation

0186

2.

Taxi to the Airport

1287

3.

Buying Train Tickets

0103

4.

Catch the Train

1035

5.

Pinyin: Section 9

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Week 7

Shopping

1.

Just Looking

0465

2.

I want to buy this one

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3.

Do you want a map?

1150

4.

Too expensive

0209

5.

Pinyin: Section 10

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Week 8

Food

1.

Trip to the vegetable market

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2.

Ordering Noodles

0852

3.

How do you take your coffee?

0631

4.

What will it be?

0935

5.

Really good food.

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6

Pinyin: Sections 11-12

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Week 9

Travel

1.

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn

0067

2.

Finding a Cheap Hostel

0184

3.

Hotel Essentials

0242

4.

Lost Luggage

0226

5.

Pinyin: Sections 13-14

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Week 10

School

1.

Guess what I'm learning

0047

2.

Student or Teacher

1182

3.

Speaking and Writing

0667

4.

I have class

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5.

Pinyin: Section 15

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Week 11

Hobbies

1.

What are your hobbies?

0052

2.

Surfing the internet

0092

3.

Weekend Warriors

0046

4.

What are you doing?

0372

5.

Pinyin: Section 16

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Week 12

Health

1.

Are you OK?

0687

2.

Do you have a cold?

1039

3.

Stomach Trouble

0229

4.

Allergies

0165

5.

Pinyin: The Final R Sound

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