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 - yī 一
2 - èr 二
3 - sān 三
4 - sì 四
5 - wǔ 五
6 - liù 六
7 - qī 七
8 - bā 八
9 - jiǔ 九
10 - shí 十
11 - shí yī 十一
12 - shí èr 十二
13 - shí sān 十三
14 - shí sì 十四
15 - shí wǔ 十五
16 - shí liù 十六
17 - shí qī 十七
18 - shí bā 十八
19 - shí jiǔ 十九
20 - èr shí 二十
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 - wǒ men 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