Growing up with Chinese
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Growing up with Chinese is a scheduled 100-episode series on CCTV-News, China Central Television
's English channel, starting from August 2, 2010 each 15-min in length. It is aired from Monday to Sunday at 17:15 and 0:15 BJT. On Monday and Thursday it airs new lessons and rebroadcast on the other days. The show teaches 3 short phrases each lesson, aiming to teach children and teenagers Chinese
. The show is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to Chinese as Ai Hua (爱华), whilst the dramatic sequences star Alec Odahara (Tian Yuanhao, 田原皓) and Wang Haocheng (王浩丞) with Azi (阿孜) supporting.
In early April of 2011, it was announced by CCTV-News that "Growing up with Chinese" would cease broadcasting as of April 10, 2011 for reasons that were not made public. Later that same month, it was announced that the show was scheduled to continue broadcasting shortly with planned releases scheduled for early May but were not released online until late June. Lessons 41 - 50 are now online and can be viewed but have not yet been added to the lesson navigation page. A current total of 40 lessons are available for viewing at CCTV's website while lessons 41 - 50 can be found at the main page for Growing up with Chinese..
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
's English channel, starting from August 2, 2010 each 15-min in length. It is aired from Monday to Sunday at 17:15 and 0:15 BJT. On Monday and Thursday it airs new lessons and rebroadcast on the other days. The show teaches 3 short phrases each lesson, aiming to teach children and teenagers Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
. The show is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to Chinese as Ai Hua (爱华), whilst the dramatic sequences star Alec Odahara (Tian Yuanhao, 田原皓) and Wang Haocheng (王浩丞) with Azi (阿孜) supporting.
In early April of 2011, it was announced by CCTV-News that "Growing up with Chinese" would cease broadcasting as of April 10, 2011 for reasons that were not made public. Later that same month, it was announced that the show was scheduled to continue broadcasting shortly with planned releases scheduled for early May but were not released online until late June. Lessons 41 - 50 are now online and can be viewed but have not yet been added to the lesson navigation page. A current total of 40 lessons are available for viewing at CCTV's website while lessons 41 - 50 can be found at the main page for Growing up with Chinese..
Lessons on the CCTV Page
- Lesson 1: Greetings
- Lesson 2: Thanks
- Lesson 3: Name
- Lesson 4: Age
- Lesson 5: Simple Enquiries
- Lesson 6: Nationality
- Lesson 7: Time
- Lesson 8: Having Dinner
- Lesson 9: Family
- Lesson 10: Dates
- Lesson 11: Getting Out of Bed
- Lesson 12: Playing American Football
- Lesson 13: Breakfast
- Lesson 14: Directions
- Lesson 15: Buying Fruits
- Lesson 16: Making a Phone Call
- Lesson 17: Transportation
- Lesson 18: Apologizing
- Lesson 19: Talking About Pets
- Lesson 20: Homework and Courses
- Lesson 21: Parent-Teacher Conference
- Lesson 22: Weather
- Lesson 23: Weather 2
- Lesson 24: Shopping
- Lesson 25: Shopping 2
- Lesson 26: Houhai
- Lesson 28: Boat-rowing
- Lesson 29: Eating fast food
- Lesson 30: Dragon Boat Festival
- Lesson 31: Learning to play American football
- Lesson 32: Interests
- Lesson 33: Playing Computer Games
- Lesson 34: Listening to music
- Lesson 35: Sending emails
- Lesson 36: Compliments
- Lesson 37: Complaints
- Lesson 38: Planned Outings
- Lesson 39: Nan Luo Gan Xiang Street
- Lesson 40: Beijing Snacks (Part 1)
Lessons 41 - 50
- Lesson 41: Beijing Snacks (Part 2)
- Lesson 42: Uncle Calls
- Lesson 43: Entertaining Visitors
- Lesson 44: Lost and Found
- Lesson 45: Antique Market (Part 1)
- Lesson 46: Antique Market (Part 2)
- Lesson 47: Booking Tickets
- Lesson 48: Farewell
- Lesson 49: Invitation
- Lesson 50: Ancient Chinese Lesson
Useful Tools
- Pinyin conventor, transfer Chinese character to Chinese Pinyin
- Pronunciation Guide, getting pronunciation with pronunciation chart
See also
- Easy Chinese 轻松汉语
- Chinese Studio
- Happy Journey Across China 万里海疆快乐行
- Travel in Chinese 旅游汉语
- Sports Chinese 体育汉语
- Communicate in Chinese 交际汉语
- Special Chinese 慢速汉语