All about Yao Laoshi

IShanghai

Education: Fùdàn Dàxué

2006 2009 2010

What you will NOT have -

• Conjugations• Tenses• Articles• Plurals• Gender• Spelling• Complicated pronunciations• No declinations of adjectives by number or gender• No inversion (fixed sentence patterns)

What you will have -

• Tones• Reading characters

• Writing characters

• wǒ I/me - nǐ you

- TĀ he/she

•Shì am/is/are/be

•bÚ Shì no; am/is/are/be not

•…ma? yes/no question?

•hǎo good

•nǐhǎo hello

•náN háI boy

• nǚ háI girl

• lǎo SHĪ teacher

• xuÉ SHĒNG student

我是Ms. Yao，我不是 Yao Ming。我是女孩，我不是男孩。 Yao Ming不是女孩， Yao Ming是男孩。我是Wisconsin的老师，我是 New Berlin West的老师，我是 Eisenhower的老师。 Yao Ming不是 Texas的老师，他不是Houston的老师，他不是Houston Rockets的老师。Yao Ming不是老师。Ms. Yao是 Yao老师。