The FSI Chinese Money Module (MON) will provide you with the skills needed to exchange money, make simple purchases, and discuss your purchases in Chinese.Before starting this module, you must take and pass the BIO Criterion Test. Prerequisites to units 4 and 5 of this module are audios 5 and 6, Numbers resource module and audios 3 and 4, Time and Dates resource module.
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this
FSI Chinese Money Module, the student should be able
1. Comprehend the numbers 1 through 99,999, including those numbers used in money expressions, and say them in Chinese when given English equivalents.
2. Give the English eouivalent for any Chinese sentence in the MON Target Lists.
3. Say any Chinese sentence in the MON Target Lists when used with its English equivalent.
4. Give the Chinese names, when given the English, for fifteen items to be bought.
5. Say that he wants to make a purchase, find out if the item is sold, ask to see it, find out the price, ask to see other similar items, and either make the purchase or say he does not want to buy the item.
6. Talk in Chinese about the items he bought, the quantity he bought, the size and color of the items, and the price (cost)including a comparison of his purchases with other items, size and color of the items, and the price (cost) including a comparison of his purchases with other items of his purchases with other items.
7. Ask for change (specific denominations). Say he wants to change money into local currency, find out where to change it, ask what the current exchange rate is, and complete the exchange using cash or traveler's checks.
You can find the other volumes of the FSI Chinese Basic course here:
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 1
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 2
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 4
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 5
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 6
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 7
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 8
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FSI Chinese - Standard Basic Course - Volume 9
Chinese is a group of related but in many cases mutually unintelligible language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language.
The varieties of Chinese are usually described by native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, but linguists note that they are as diverse as a language family. The internal diversity of Chinese has been likened to that of the Romance languages, but may be even more varied. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin (about 960 million), followed by Wu (80 million), Yue (70 million) and Min (70 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility. All varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic.
Chinese Mandarin is spoken in: China
Chinese Mandarin is also called: Beifang Fangyan, Guanhua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Hoton, Huayu, Hui, Hui-Zu, Hytad, Kuoyu, Mandarin, Northern Chinese, Putonghua, Qotong, Standard Chinese, Xui
