Chinese street Street Chinese for a child visiting a friend: hello and goodbye at the gate, the four tones, thank you and sorry, yes and no, names and ages, counting to a hundred and lucky numbers, colours, the family, dinner at a friend's house. The lessons are in English about Chinese words.
The questions of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 481 questions, every question and option parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: the course at school .
1 Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate 15 questions · «nee HOW means how are you, like english how» Which is right? 2 The four tones: same sound, different meaning 15 questions · «ming says ask for táng at the shop, it means soup innit» What happens if you do? 3 Thank you, sorry, excuse me 14 questions · «xiexie is like zee-zee right, sounds like cheese» Which is right? 4 Yes and no there is no single word — 15 questions · «just say yes, it's shì for everything» Which is right? 5 Names and "how old are you?" 15 questions · «ask his nan nǐ jǐ suì le, it's how you ask age» What is wrong? 6 Counting 1 to 10, on one hand 14 questions · «ming's showing me a gun with his fingers, rude!!» He was counting. What number? 7 Counting to 100 and lucky numbers 15 questions · «12 is èrshí, 2 tens innit» Which is right? 8 Colours 15 questions · «get ming's dad a green hat for his birthday, he likes green» What is wrong? 9 Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters 15 questions · «ming's sister calls him gēge not Ming, weird» Why? 10 Grandparents, aunties and uncles how families address elders — 15 questions · «ming's nan on his mum's side, I called her nǎinai, everyone laughed» Why? 11 Dinner at the friend's house 15 questions · «ming's mum shouted chī fàn le but i was mid game so i waited» What should you have done? 12 Tasty! Spicy! I'm full! 16 questions · «the soup's hǎo chī» says your friend. What's the tiny slip? 13 In the playground: come on, your turn! 15 questions · «ming yelled jiāyóu at me on sports day, I don't need petrol??» What did he mean? 14 Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! 15 questions · Ming throws cloth, you throw scissors. Who wins? 15 School words 15 questions · «my mate says chinese kids call teachers by first name like Mr Dave lol» Is he right? 16 Happy, angry, bored, scared 15 questions · my mate says "qì sǐ wǒ le" means someone actually died. right? 17 Hungry, tired, shy, excited 15 questions · my mate said "wǒ é le" with his voice going up and Lín cracked up. why? 18 The body 15 questions · my cousin says jītuǐ is a body part, chicken's leg so it's your leg. right? 19 Animals and "what animal are you?" 15 questions · lol Lín's a Rat in the zodiac, that's an insult innit? 20 Weather and what Granny says to wear 15 questions · my friend says "xià yú le" with a rising yú means it's raining. right? 21 Today, tomorrow, now, later 15 questions · my mate thinks míngtiān means "morning" cos "míng" sounds like morning. right? 22 Days of the week, the clock, birthdays 15 questions · my mate reckons Sunday is xīngqīqī, week-seven, cos it's the 7th day. right? 23 Friendly teasing when it's fun and when it stings — 16 questions · Lín's mate calls a kid in Year 2 who can't read yet "bèndàn" in front of everyone. Friendly teasing? 24 Words that hurt what they mean, never to be said — 15 questions · my mate says if u learn the rude words u can shout them back, fair's fair. right? 25 Spring Festival Chinese New Year — 15 questions · my friend says Chinese New Year is on 1 Jan like ours but they just party more. right? 26 Red envelopes and New Year wishes 15 questions · my mate says u should rip the hóngbāo open straight away and say "ooh how much". good manners? 27 Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays 16 questions · my mate wished Lín's family "happy Qingming!!" with a big grin. good idea? 28 At the friend's home: what to say to the parents 15 questions · «didn't say hi to his parents, went straight to the PlayStation, it's fine right?» Is it fine? 29 Talking to the friend's grandparents 15 questions · «his nan said I got fat?! that's so rude» How should you take nǐ pàng le? 30 Street chatter: wow, really?, cool! 15 questions · «my mate says āiyā only means you're angry» Is he right? 31 Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★ 15 questions · ★★★ Ollie from Leeds goes «mate, 33 is just sānsān innit». What is right? 32 Olympiad: measure words and characters as pictures ★★★ 15 questions · ★★★ Josh from Bristol goes «gurt easy, ge works for everything, so yí ge shū». What would a Chinese friend u… ← previous Chemistrynext → English↑ back to the questions This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/