Name: Mandarin Chinese lesson: Beginner Reading #1 Agen 2017 @DianeNeubauer
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Mandarin Chinese lesson: Beginner Reading #1 Agen 2017

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2026-09-23 | Mandarin Chinese lesson: Beginner Reading #1 Agen 2017

Deer mama & baby: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-03-22 | Two deer visited at sunset today! I stepped out of the hen house, and there they were. At first I didn't even see them because I was looking at the beautiful sunset.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Amy Wants to Go to Australia: Beginning Chinese read-along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-03-20 | Transcript of the video: Use a pop-up dictionary browser extension (such as Zhongwen) to hover & check any characters or words below:

Amy 在 Massachusetts (MA).
在 MA, 现在天气有一点冷。
Amy 不喜欢有一点冷的天气。
Amy 喜欢有一点热的天气。
MA 现在有一点热吗？
不不不！在 MA, 现在有一点冷。现在 MA的天气不热。
Amy：“我喜欢有一点热的天气。”
“可是，现在MA天气有一点冷。”
“我不太喜欢有一点冷的天气。”
MA 的天气有一点冷，可是，澳大利亚的天气有一点热！
Amy 喜欢有一点热的天气。
Amy：“我想去。。。澳大利亚!”
✈
Amy 在澳大利亚了！
以前，澳大利亚的天气有一点热。
可是，现在天气太热了！

Amy：“我在澳大利亚了! 我去了澳大利亚. 可是，现在澳大利亚的天气太热了！AiYo…”
Amy 哭了。Amy 不太喜欢太热的天气。

Dragon Likes It Hot: Beginning Chinese read-along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-03-05 | Please pause, mute & predict, play at a slower speed, and make the most of YouTube controls to make this reading fit your pace best.
Transcript:
现在 Dragon 在德国。
Dragon 不在中国。
他不在 Iowa.
(Iowa 现在也太冷！)

在德国，现在有一点冷。
可是，Dragon 不喜欢冷。
Dragon 不太喜欢冷。

AoDaLiYa 冷吗？不不不！
现在 AoDaLiYa 不冷，现在 AoDaLiYa 很热！
Dragon 喜欢热！
Dragon 想去 Iowa 吗？
不不不，现在 Iowa 有一点冷。
Dragon 想去中国吗？
不，他想去。。。Florida！
现在 Florida 冷吗？
现在 Florida 很热！
Dragon 喜欢热。他喜欢 Florida!
他想去 Florida.

Eating Fresh Chicken Food: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-03-02 | I just poured new chicken feed into the feeder, and the birds were here for it. Watch the enthusiasm while hearing the word for "fresh," 新鲜, in context.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Little Dragon Wants to Go to Germany: Beginning Chinese Read-Along Video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-02-20 | Tutorial for using read-along videos: youtu.be/4acHV_HUl4E?si=vWRryIo-n4lMlZEO
Transcript of the text:
Dragon 在中国。
Diane在中国吗？
不！Diane 在 Iowa. Diane 不在中国。
Jim 在中国吗？
不！Jim 在 AoDaLiYa. Jim 不在中国。
Dragon 不在 Iowa.
他不在 AoDaLiYa.
他在中国。
Dragon 在中国，可是 Margit 不在中国。
Margit 在德国。
Dragon 在中国吗？
他在中国!
他在德国吗？
不不不，他在中国。
Dragon 想看 Margit.
可是，Margit 在德国。
Margit 不在中国。
Margit 在德国。
Dragon: “Margit，你在中国吗？我想看你！”
Margit: “Dragon！我想看你，
可是我不在中国。我在德国。”
Dragon: “我想看你，可是你不在中国。你想去中国吗？”
Margit: “En…. 我不想去中国。”
Dragon: “O, 我想去德国！你在德国。我想看你。我想去德国！我想去德国看你！”
他去了德国！
Margit 在德国。
Dragon 在德国了！
他看 Margit！
Margit 看了他！
Dragon：“Margit，我在德国。我在德国看你！”

This reading contains 12 or 13 unique words appear; about 445 characters. Words that appear include:
在：29 times
吗：6 times
中国：17 times
德国：14
不：14
他：8
你：10
我：12
可是：4
想：10
看：9
去：6

Year of the Dragon: Chinese read-along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-02-12 | 2024年：木青龙年
春节快乐！今年是龙年。
有人觉得龙年是特别吉利的一年，
因为龙是特别吉利的动物。
龙为什么吉利？
龙是很特别的动物。
龙会飞，飞得很高。
龙也是很厉害的动物。
老鼠很厉害吗？有一点厉害吧。
狗很厉害吗？也有一点厉害吧。
可是，龙厉害不厉害？
龙很厉害。
龙是很会成功的动物。
所以，有人觉得龙年特别吉利，很会发财的一年。

看看中国的龙：

龙年大吉！

Deer Poop: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-02-09 | In the last video, I showed the deer tracks through the yard. Today I discovered deer poop! Lots of it! Where deer go, so does their poop. And now it's on video on YouTube as a Chinese learning tool. Enjoy.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Spring Festival Eve Meal: Advanced Beginning Chinese read-along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-02-05 | 除夕的桌子
A Spring Festival Eve Table
Reading from Advanced Beginning Chinese class
Feb. 4, 2024
Diane Neubauer 杜雁子
我有春节的照片！
2024年， 2月 9号是除夕。
2024年 2月 10号是春节。
春节快乐！
在照片里，有九个人。
九个人都是大人。
在照片里，没有小孩子。
照片里的两个人老一点，可是照片里七个人不太老。
照片里也有一张桌子。
桌子是圆形的桌子。
在中国，有很多圆形的桌子。
他们可能在中国。
他们在家里。
他们在圆形的桌子吃饭。
桌子上有什么？有菜。
桌子上有很多菜。
桌子上有十道菜。
有鱼吗？不知道。
他们在吃中国菜。

Deer path in the yard: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-02-03 | Iowa's heavy snow in January is now melting in February 2024! That means we can see the tracks made by deer through our yard and out into the field & woods behind our yard.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Marianne the Chicken reads a book?: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2024-01-28 | See Marianne's response to the Australian classic children's book, Possum Magic.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Chicken arms?: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-12-25 | Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！My brother sent my chickens a gift -- chicken "arms" that fit around their neck so they look like they have arms. So far, the hens aren't having any of this arm wearing. But they do think the arms are interesting, and possibly edible. See them check out the arms in this video.

Note that in my talk, I mistakenly said 穿 instead of 戴 for the proper verb, but caught myself -- multiple times! 穿 is more for clothes or things you wear that are more than an accessory. 戴 is for 'wear' of things more like accessories: glasses, watches, scarves, and I expect chicken arms are something an adventuresome hen would 戴, not 穿.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Recipe for Stir-fried Spinach: Mandarin Chinese read along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-12-10 | Transcript:
清炒菠菜 Qing Style Stir-fried Spinach, based on the recipe in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=YRWN6seKz2w

做清炒菠菜的时候，第一：
1. 洗菠菜，洗姜，洗大蒜，洗葱。
2. 准备做菜的工具：锅、刀🔪、勺子🥄、调味品和油。
3. 切大蒜、姜、和葱。
4. 开炉，炉要很热，锅也要很热。怎么知道锅够不够热？放一点水，如果水很快没有，那时候，锅就够热了。
5. 锅热了以后，要加油。
6. 油热了以后，要放调味品。炒一下。
7. 然后，在锅里放菠菜。马上要炒一炒。不要炒太长时间。
8. 炒好了以后，要放一点盐。放盐以后，再炒一下。
9. 吃！

Recipe: Stir-fried, Julienned Potatoes Beginning Mandarin Chinese read along video

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-12-10 | Transcript:
土豆丝 Stir-fried, Julienned Potatoes aka "Potato Threads"
This recipe is approximately the same as the first recipe at this link: baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1611999260372424429 and also based on the stir-fried potatoes I ate in China.

怎么做土豆丝？你要一个大锅，一个大勺子🥄，和菜：土豆🥔、青椒、辣椒、和大蒜。你也要油和盐。

1. 切菜: 切土豆🥔，切青椒，切辣椒🌶。土豆、青椒、和辣椒都要切成丝。
2. 开炉。炉要很热，锅也要很热。
3. 锅在热的时候，要切大蒜。
4. 锅热了以后，放一勺油。
5. 油热了以后，放大蒜、花椒、和干(dry)辣椒。快快地炒一炒。
6. 放土豆丝。炒一炒。
7. 土豆丝快好了的时候(when almost ready），放青椒和生(raw) 辣椒。炒一炒。
8. 再炒一炒。炒好了的时候(when finished stir-frying），放盐。
9. 吃！

Bird Feeder: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-12-08 | We have a new bird feeder this year, and it's getting some attention from birds.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Marianne the Chicken on my shoulder: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-11-21 | Marianne loves getting on my shoulder -- it's her favorite way to be held.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Two teaching strategies: Jigsaw Read & Report and Volleyball Discussions

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-11-21 | I talk about two teaching strategies I've used in language teacher education, and how I think those strategies could be modified for language classrooms. I'm super interested in hearing from anyone who tries one or both of these, or who already does something similar in your teaching context. I'm really enjoying these strategies.

First strategy: Jigsaw Read & Report.
1. Everyone reads one section/has general familiarity with the topic of both subsequent readings.
2. Half of the class reads one section (or one story of two parallel stories/descriptions/short readings on the same topic). The other half of the class reads another section (or a different but parallel story/description/short reading on the same topic).
Once everyone has read:
3. Students meet for about 10 minutes to:
(Teacher ed context: complete the jigsaw read & report form with others who read the same section)
(Language class context: depends on their proficiency, either pick a number of sentences to tell the main points, or they work together to write a summary in a few sentences).
4. Groups then mix, and have about 15 minutes to talk with a mixed group about all sections of the reading.
- Take notes (using the read & report form) about the section you did not read;
- Ask questions to get more details & check your understanding;
- Each group finishes with a final task that sums up what both readings contained.

Second strategy: Volleyball Discussions
Half the class reads one item, and the other half of the class reads another. Again, both readings need somehow to be related or similar in theme. This strategy in a language classroom might work better with nonfiction texts where similar information is shared. Or, I could see this working well for two chapters in a novel in which one person is featured in one chapter, a different person is featured in a different chapter, and all students read all of the text but are only representing one chapter's content in the volleyball discussion.

How do we play?
1. Team meeting: each group discusses which points from their reading that they wish to share, and gets a sort of understanding of what they want to talk about, and who from their group might speak first. They could choose sentences from the text and/or write their own sentence about the points they want to share.

Round 1 begins:
2. Group 1 begins by choosing one key point from their reading. Group 1 members share briefly about that strategy. Group 2 listens & notes details.
3. Group 2 follows up by adding any points from their reading related to the same point, if included. Group 1 listens for any new information.
4. Group 1 & 2 members might have additional, brief follow up points to share before going on to round 2.

Round 2 begins:
5. Group 2 chooses another point from their reading, describing as Group 1 notes details.
6. Group 1 then responds with any additional details, caveats, or info from their reading. Group 2 & 1 members might have a few additional follow-up points here.
7. Group 1 then chooses another point, different students from the group share that out... and so on until time is up and/or no points are left undiscussed.

Noodles Joke: Chinese read-along video (Experienced class)

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-11-05 | Transcript of the full video text:
一个笑话：
如果要明白这个笑话，你要知道英文说的 “noodles”，中文有很多说法。
面条的意思是 wheat noodles.
方便面的意思是instant noodles (也是面做的)。
还有，粉丝是 glass noodles, 也可以说 bean thread noodles. 粉丝是绿豆做的。
好啊！可以开始讲笑话了！

有 “一个” 粉丝，它很不喜欢 “一个” 面条。
有一天，粉丝跟面条说：“我不喜欢你！下次见到你，我会打你！”
面条不要被粉丝打，所以，面条走了，不再去粉丝喜欢去的地方。
可是，第二天，粉丝在外面走路的时候，它看到了方便面。
看到方便面的时候，粉丝就很生气。
粉丝跑到方便面那里，开始打方便面！
方便面跟粉丝说，“怎么了！你怎么打我，我不认识你！”
粉丝跟方便面说，“啊？？！你不是烫过头发的面条吗？？”

Elevator: Suspenseful Mandarin Chinese read-along video Experienced level

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-10-30 | Transcript below. This story was based on the video 电梯 (youtu.be/eBSFl7woaps?si=AJ5zUGtAz6roBnUo) and written by WenJing Chiang, then modified by Diane Neubauer with involvement from Experienced Chinese class members in Oct. 2023. A somewhat simpler text based on the same story is in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=d00uBs7Po74

Transcript of the full video text:
很晚了！她还没有回家。她今天加班。她一直到晚上11：55还在上班。

但是十一点五十五分了，她可以回家了。她很累。

她一个人走到电梯那里。她按了下楼的按钮，等了，就走进了电梯。

在电梯里，她按了一楼的按钮。她坐电梯下楼。在电梯里，她玩手机，看朋友发的短信。

在十四楼，电梯停了。她没按十四楼的按钮。她觉得有一点奇怪。

门开了，门关了。但是没有人进来。

十四楼，十三楼，十二楼，十一楼，十楼。在十楼，电梯停了，门又开了！

可是她没按十楼的按钮。奇怪啊！为什么电梯在十楼又停了？她不知道。

她看了看外面，说：“有人吗？”可是没有人。门关了。
电梯开始下楼。她下楼，她想去一楼。但是，电梯在六楼停了！

她没按六楼的按钮！怎么了？电梯怎么在六楼又停了？她开始害怕。
门开了。她看电梯外面，说：有人吗？有人吗？她有一点害怕！可是，没有人。

在六楼，有一个人影，但是她没看到。
可是，她还很害怕！有人在她后面！

有人的手摸摸她的肩膀 (touched her shoulder)。
这个人跟她说：“我要下电梯！”

她太害怕了，说，“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！”

Elevator: Suspenseful read-along video in Mandarin Chinese, advanced beginning level

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-10-30 | You can use pop-up tools like Zhongwen add-on to your browser, hover & check any unfamiliar characters or words below. This story was based on the video 电梯 (youtu.be/eBSFl7woaps?si=AJ5zUGtAz6roBnUo) and written by WenJing Chiang, then modified by Diane Neubauer with involvement from Experienced Chinese class members in Oct. 2023. At the end of the video, I talk (in English) about some character components in some words that appear. A somewhat more advanced text based on the same story is in this video: youtu.be/qwIjO70c0zI

很晚了！她不在家，因为她在工作。
十一点五十五分了，她做好了。
她要走了，要回家了。
她一个人走到电梯那里。
她按了按钮。电梯来了，她坐电梯下去。
她在电梯里面，她坐电梯下楼。
在电梯里，她玩手机。
门开了，门关了。但是没有人进来。
十四楼，十三楼，十二楼，十一楼，十楼。
电梯停了，门开了！可是没有人。
她看了看外面，说：有人吗？
可是没有人。门关了。
她下楼，她想去一楼。
但是，电梯在六楼停了！
门开了。她看外面，说：有人吗？有人吗？她有一点害怕！
可是，没有人。
在六楼，有一个人影，但是她没看到。

可是，她很害怕！有人在她后面！
有人的手摸摸她的肩膀 (touched her shoulder)。
这个人跟她说：“我要下电梯！”
她太害怕了，说，“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！”

Comprehension-Based Chinese ebook introduction

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-10-04 | An introduction & peek inside the ebook, Comprehension-Based Chinese, published by Cheng & Tsui (2023). This book is like a recipe book for language teachers with strategies to develop students' overall proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, with guidance on classroom expectations, creating and finding reading materials that can help reduce students' need for memorization of characters, frequently-asked questions, and additional resources. The ebook has links to videos that show the strategies discussed.

Purchase here: cheng-tsui.publishercart.com/product/comprehension-based-chinese-ebook

After purchase, you will receive an email with login information for the FluencyLink website, where the ebook is available to read online.

More info:
Phone: 1-617-988-2400
Fax: 1-617-426-3669
Cheng & Tsui Company
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Comprehension-Based Chinese aims to provide a simple process for instructors to begin or to expand their comprehension-based, communicative language teaching strategies for Mandarin Chinese. The strategies in this book focus on helping students to connect meaning to the sounds of Chinese through first hearing it in interesting contexts and then reading that newly familiar language. Through this process, students naturally acquire grammar, pronunciation, and word usage. Over time, students naturally grow in their ability to speak and write. This book addresses the how and why comprehension-based teaching strategies can help students to develop proficiency and literacy. Teachers using this book may also be working from textbook content and seeking to ensure more comprehensible input as a focus of their teaching or may use this book to begin a transition away from exclusively textbook-based instruction.
Features:
● A variety of strategies and activities are suggested based on the student group’s preferences and different teachers’ own styles
● The Frequently Asked Questions section includes suggestions on how to address issues most Chinese teachers experience
● Video examples of activities
● Solutions for both in-person and online instruction
● An explanation of classroom expectations
● Images and tables help facilitate learning

Diane Neubauer, PhD, teacher educator, Mandarin Chinese teacher, & language education researcher.
Website: sites.google.com/view/dianen/home

Adolescent deer from my window: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-30 | I saw this adolescent deer at least four times from my office window today! This deer ended up continuing to point its butt at my camera for several minutes after I stopped recording this video, too.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Baby Deer: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-21 | Some baby deer and their mom have been coming to visit our yard recently! And deer are curious about seeing humans with chickens. The babies came in fairly close to see what we were doing in the chicken yard. This video has two clips put together from different days the baby deer visited.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Minimalist Packing: Beginning-ish Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-10 | In this video, I show and describe how I packed for a 10-day trip recently in France & Iceland. There's an English language video with a lot more detail -- this is in Chinese, and aimed at Novice Mid and up learners.

Minimalist Packing (video in English)

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-10 | By request, I'm sharing what was in my bag on a recent 10-day trip to France and Iceland from the US. I show brands (when relevant) & how everything easily fit into a backpack.

There's a much shorter, Chinese language video about what I packed aimed at Novice Mid-ish Chinese language learners as well.

Chicken Friends: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-02 | Back in Iowa, Cleo & Fanny are each nearly 13 years old, and FanFan now has arthritic problems in her legs. Cleo helps take care of her.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Guess where I am: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-08-02 | I recently had a brief stay in a country I've never been before. It was an amazing place! It has a lot of volcanic rock -- and in fact, right now, an active volcano (火山 huo SHAN). Can you figure out my location before I tell you at the end?

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, often with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎使用这些视频做教材，给学生看。目标：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！可以暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。

Bumblebee: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-06-18 | A bumblebee on milkweed flowers! When it flies, you can hear it buzz.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Baby birds in a nest: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-06-08 | Once again this year, a family of swallows has made a nest above our bedroom window! The babies are growing & since filming this, the bird that was flapping and wriggling has apparently flown out of the nest for the first time. You might also hear Marianne the chicken talking in the background (not on camera, but she was watching, too).

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

At the Car Wash: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-06-02 | Get a free car wash, they said. It'll be fun, they said! I decided not to cut the section with the staff yelling at me for not putting my car in the correct place! But if you want to skip that English section, it's from 2:41 when she knocks on my window until 3:46 when I laugh after she's walked away.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Grandmas gardenias: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-05-28 | I visited my grandma's house in Louisiana in this video. My grandma's yard has been a favorite place to visit since I was a small child. It is gardenia blooming season now -- too bad that video cannot include smells, because they are wonderful flowers. This is my same grandma from 2 read-along videos about her marrying first one, decades later the other, of her sweethearts from her youth:
Beginning- youtu.be/knAxaDMEvCU
Somewhat more complex- youtube.com/watch?v=lbSpv9E4it8

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Loud Bees: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-05-13 | Bees! Lots of bees! I could hear them from inside the house, they were so loud. Here they are on video.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Hard Rain: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-05-09 | It was raining so hard the chickens wouldn't go outside!

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Baby Geese: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-05-06 | Cute, fuzzy baby geese and their parents at a park with a lake.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

My older hen, Fanny: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-04-08 | I'm back in Iowa, and Fanny the chicken is very happy to see me. I'm picking her favorite bits from the lawn and feeding her while she finds it awkward to bend over (due to arthritic conditions in her hips; she's on medication now & improving). I hope I'm not spoiling her.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Hawaii Chickens (again!): Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-04-06 | While driving to a hiking trail, I got to see another little chicken family by the side of the road. They were beautiful, but shy!

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Soothing waves

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-04-04 | Soothing waves. That's it, that's the video.

Filmed at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawai`i, March 29, 2023.

Wild chickens in Hawaii: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-04-04 | Watch me track down a family of 3 chickens in a park in Honolulu, Hawaii! Even when I travel I'm looking for chickens, and Hawaii has many wild ones.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Pigeons: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-04-04 | I went to Hawaii, and I made you all a video about pigeons?! Yes, I did. There's one about tracking some wild chickens, too (coming soon).

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Marianne laid an egg: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-03-26 | Marianne (and two other hens) have started laying eggs again! They take a break in the winter, more because of less light than because of cold weather. And they like to pick places other than the nest boxes -- but today Marianne really outdid herself with a surprising place to lay her egg.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Robins out the window: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-03-19 | Robins have returned to Iowa! These two cute birds flew into a tree because I spooked them while filming, but still there was time for a brief Chinese learning video description.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Marianne the hen finding worms: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-03-12 | Marianne doesn't care about weather when there are worms to be found & eaten outside! She was the only hen staying outside in the rain.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Snow and Chickens: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-02-23 | What do the hens think of the snow? Are they interested in going outside?

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Ducks have returned: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-02-19 | It's easy to hear them, but hard to see them all in the video! There were hundreds of ducks flying very high overhead, coming back from wintering further south.

The very next day after recording these birds, we had a heavy snowfall. I hope they're okay with their decision to come back into the area!

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Invitation to Chinese language classes online (Feb. - May 2023)

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-02-16 | If you're on this channel, you may be a Chinese language learner! I have a few spaces in my online Chinese language classes & wanted to invite viewers to consider joining one. See the video (or my About page on the channel) for how to contact me about that.

Surprised by an early spring: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-02-13 | The chickens and I went to check the garden today, Feb. 12. I was surprised to see baby lettuce growing already (I'm in gardening Zone 5)! But I was not surprised that one of the hens, Fanny Price, wanted to be held rather than eat lettuce. She's my sweetheart. When your chicken asks you to hold her, you really should pick her up and hold her.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Chickens, hands, and claws: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-02-08 | Marianne & Cleo came outside on a cold day!

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

Below Freezing: Beginning Mandarin Chinese listening

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching 2023-01-31 | The weather got colder! But little birds still walk around outside -- this video shows how I know that.

Playlist of beginning-level Mandarin Chinese videos, mostly with our hens: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrbO0PFku40RAVqnUaBivyT

中文老师们：欢迎您们跟学生使用这些视频。我打算继续拍更多。目标是：越听越懂，因为一个视频里出现的单词下个视频大概又会出现。接起来，希望有足够重复，学生能不知不觉地习得更多中文！暂停视频，重复听，放慢速在YouTube都很方便也有帮助。以后，打算加一些阅读材料的视频。

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