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你好Chris,

这是你的课表(ke4biao3-- lesson list). Hope you like those lessons.

Week 1

1. Newbie - The First Tone
2. Newbie - The Second Tone
3. Newbie - The Third Tone
4. Newbie - The Fourth Tone
5 . Newbie - The Neutral Tone

Week 2

1. Newbie - What is this called?
2. Newbie - What Character?
3. Newbie - Useful Phrases #1
4. Newbie - How Long in China
5. Newbie - What's tomorrow?

Week 3

1. Newbie - Please speak slowly
2. Newbie - Useful Phrases #2
3. Newbie - What time is it?
4. Newbie - Months
5. Newbie - Working Hours

Week 4

1. Newbie - Working Hours
2. Newbie - Have you eaten?
3. Newbie - Giving an Example
4. Newbie - Something to Do Tomorrow
5. Newbie - Where are you going?

你好 Helen,

那个课很好 :)

谢谢，

Chris

你好 Helen!

Those lessons look great! I already listened to the "Please speak slowly" lesson, though, so maybe we can switch that with another?

Also, Is it alright if I also additionally do some of the Pinyin program lessons this week to help with my pronunciation?

谢谢

Chris

Sure! How about "Can you speak Chinese" lesson instead?

Sounds good! :D

你好 Helen!

I forgot that I am going to a friend's house for dinner on Thursday night. Could we move our meeting time to the early afternoon or the morning? As long as it's before 5 PM EST, it should be okay.

Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience!

你好 Chris,

Sorry for the late reply.

4:15pm  Thursday your time, which is 4:15am my time would work for me.

Talk soon,

Helen

That sounds great. Once again, I'm sorry to have to change the time, but thanks for responding. :) See you then.

你好 Helen,

I was just wondering how you thought our lesson went yesterday. Is there anything in particular I should try to focus on or learn better?

As always I enjoyed talking to you. Thanks!

你好Chris,

As I said this morning, your pronunciation is pretty good. and now you've already known the basic sentence structures and some of differences from English. I would suggest you enlarge your vacabulary and try to make more sentences with the words you know. You may write down your sentences and then post them here, so that I could check it for you, if you like.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

周末愉快 zhou1mo4 yu2kuai4 --- Have a nice weekend!

Best,

Helen

你好 Helen! I hope you had a great holiday.

I've been very busy studying for a very important test I will be taking this Saturday. I haven't been able to follow our lesson plan entirely, so I won't have listened to all the lessons this week. Is it alright if we just talk about grammar again during our lesson on Thursday, like we did before? I'll be sure to catch up with the podcasts after that.

Thanks!

谢谢！ I really had a great holiday and just came back in Shanghai.

好的，没问题！（no problem）

Will talk to you at 7:20PM today, your time.

 :)

你好 Helen!

对不起, but I will not be able to make Thursday's lesson. I will be volunteering at a food bank (something that offers food to people without a lot of money) for most of the day. Is it possible to move our lesson to some time on Friday? Any time Friday should be okay for me.

I'm sorry for letting you know on short notice again. My schedule has been a bit crazy these past couple weeks.

Thanks!

你好Chris!

I am sorry, but we dont work on your Friday (Saturday here). Maybe we can move it to next week and try to do some extra minutes instead?

What do you think? (or how about some time your Sunday night ?)

Please let me know!

谢谢！

Helen

Unfortunately I'm also busy Sunday nights. Maybe next week would be better then?

Thanks for being so understanding. :)

谢谢你！

好的，那下个星期"见"吧！^^

Helen

 你好 Chris,

Hope you had a great 周末!

（周末zhou1mo4=weekend）

Sorry, I just realized I forgot to give you the new lessons earlier. Here you go:

Week 1   

1.    Newbie - Please speak slowly

2.    Newbie - Counting Coins

3.    Newbie - Asking for Help

4.    Newbie - It's broken

5 .    Newbie - Upset


Week 2   

1.    Newbie - What's up?

2.    Newbie - Being Seated in a Restaurant

3.    Newbie - Simple Toasts

4.    Newbie - Really Good Food

5.    Newbie - I'm really full!


Week 3   

1.    Newbie - Are You Tired?

2.    Newbie - Speaking and Writing

3.    Newbie - Best Friends

4.    Newbie - Seeing Somebody to the Door

5.    Newbie - Handsome Boy


Week 4   

1.    Newbie - Surfing the Internet

2.    Newbie - Sending Emails

3.    Newbie - Chatting Online

4.    Newbie - Downloading Music

5.    Newbie - Internet Cafe Rates

Hope you 喜欢这些（zhe4xie1=these）课！

星期四“见”！

Helen

Below is new lesson list for you, hope you enjoy these lessons:

Week 1   

1.    Newbie - What time is it?

2.    Newbie - What are you doing?

3.    Newbie - Something to Do Tomorrow

4.    Newbie - Time to Go

5 .    Newbie Where Did You Go?


Week 2   

1.    Newbie - Can you Speak Chinese?

2.    Newbie - Have you eaten?

3.    Newbie - Giving an Example

4.    Newbie - Where's the bathroom?

5.    Newbie - Where Do You Live?


Week 3   

1.    Newbie - I like beef

2.    Newbie - Asking for a Phone Number

3.    Newbie - She went out

4.    Newbie - When will he return?

5.    Newbie - Who is that?


Week 4   

1.    Newbie - Introducing a Friend

2.    Newbie - What's Your Surname?

3.    Newbie - I'm hungry!

4.    Newbie - Black or Green Tea

5.    Newbie - Thirsty for Water