Mainstream+Mandarin+Group-+Nick+de+gùshì

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**-- Trial Speech** ||= **Comment** ||= ** 二零一一年八月二十二日--Nick的故事 **
 * = **名字** ||= **二零一一年六月八日**
 * （Nick de gùshì） ** ||= ** Comment ** ||
 * ===**Zhào Lǎoshī**===

**赵老师**
||  ||   || media type="custom" key="10395548" || Please listen to my sample recording and practice the words you are uncertain about. ||
 * < Bó Yībèi

博 一贝
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Isabella Buettner- missing hamburger.wma" width="108" height="108" || Bó Yībèi, you have done a good job reading/speaking the first three lines in this story. Then you tend to ignore the pauses and punctuations in the rest sentences. Just like reading in English, you read it out by words or phrases. Only pause when you have completely spoken one full word/phrase out. Do not drag the last part of the previous word into the beginning part of the next word. Read it a few more times and record it again.-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Kē Mànshā

柯 曼莎
||< media type="custom" key="9704048" width="70" height="70" || Kē Mànshā, this is an excellent piece of trial work! Perfect grammar! Can you try to make another video with your own voiced recorded? Give it a try!-- Zhao Laoshi ||< media type="file" key="Samantha Carey- Nick's Story.mp3" width="216" height="18" || Kē Mànshā, your pronunciation is very clear and your speech is fluent. Pay attention to some characters' tones, for example "liang (two)" is 3rd tone instead of 2nd tone. I hope we could avoid late homework in the future- can you take care of this?-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Dé Yīshā

德 伊莎
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Isabella Delaney- Nick story.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Dé Yīshā, your pronunciation of words are very clear and your story telling is very fluent. Try to work on your tones in the future and see if it sounds differently. Good job!-- Zhao Laoshi You sound really good Bella! its all very clear and we can understand what your saying. Your pronuciatioin is really good as well, keep up the good work-- Catya That was so good Bella! It was really easy to understand and your articulation is exellent! - Milla! Bella, this is an excellent recording. We can easily understand everything that you say,and you pronounced everything correctly. You had all of your pauses in exactly the right places which was fantastic! -Katherine Good job Bella! great pronunciation - Maggie This was well recorded as your sense of fluency and pronunciation was great! -Melissa This was a really good recording, it was eay to follow, you spoke really fluently and had pauses when a sentence ended. Also your prononciation(sorry i can't spell) was really clear and good :) <3 Jacqui  Bella that was so good it was really clear and you stopped at all the punctuation! Good job! - Bella B  Your pronounciation was amazing! your tones were well organised, great story telling <3 - eliza ||
 * < Dǒng Mànzhēn

董 曼珍
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Maggie Dunn-nick story.wma" width="108" height="108" || Dǒng Mànzhēn, you have fluently repeated this story and your pronunciation of the words is excellent! From your reading, I can see that you have well mastered the meaning of this story line and the meaning of all vocabulary words. Well done!-- Zhao Laoshi Maggie that's really good your pronunciation is excellent and your tones are so good. It is so clear to understand. Good job Mags :) - Isabella ||
 * < Ài Bólán

艾 柏兰
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="ai bolan - nicks story.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Ài Bólán, you pause at the right spots where you complete expressing a comparatively indepent meaning. In the future, try to work on combine words into bigger units, for example, instead of saying "yizhi...baimao", you can say "yizhibaimao." Besides, you should pay attention to some words' pronunciation. For instance, you should practice "shengqi (angry)", "baimao" and "xianzai (now)". Please ask me if you don't know how to pronounce them properly. Good effort! -- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Féng Sīní

冯 思霓
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Stephanie- nick story.mp3" width="216" height="18" || Féng Sīní, your first half of the story was fluently and accurately read. Well done!Then you have some words that were not well pronounced, for exmaple, "xianzai (now)," "zhuozi (table)," "liang (two)," etc. Please listen to my sample recording on the top of this page for a few times and compare it with your own recording. Then practice the ones that you have pronounced incorrectly previously.-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Fāng Lālā

方 拉拉
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Isabella Fortunato- Nick.mp3" width="216" height="18" || Fāng Lālā, your pronunciation is very clear and most of your tones are good. Use your hands to direct your tones following the physical curves of the four tones when you practice them in the future. "Grab" pronounces as "zhua" instead of "zhuai." Feel the difference! Very good work!-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Zhān Mǐlán

詹 米兰
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Nick Milla.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Zhān Mǐlán, your reading/speaking is very fluent and your pronunciation of the words is very good! Pay attention to the tones in your future speaking works. Also, make sure that you pause or stop when you reach the punctuation. Good work!-- Zhao Laoshi Your story recording is awesome! I could follow the story easily and you spoke clearly. You sounded really fluent! Well done Milla, it is really good!! -Bella D. Milla you spoke really clearly and all of your words and phrases were really understandable. You had excellent pronunciation for your story. You made the story very whole and smooth because you spoke very fluently -Katherine It was really clear and easy to follow! Really good :) -Maggie Milla you sounded amazing! it was really clar and very easy to understang. good job :) -- Catya Milla - you sounded really clear and spoke fluently. it was very easy to understand and you had really good pronounciation. (sorry i can't spell) - ^:) <3 Jacqui Mila, you sounded sooo incredibly good, it was really clear and I could understand every word you said great job! Bella B  Milla, this is really really good! Your proounciation is amazing and you had excellent fluency :) - Bronte ||
 * < Hā Jiélín

哈 洁琳
||< media type="custom" key="9717204" width="70" height="70" || That was not bad at all Hā Jiélín! You learned how to type in Chinese on your own! Can you find out Spain's Pinyin and remake your English sentence i  n the video into a Chinese one?=) Try it!--  Zhao Laoshi ||< media type="file" key="Nick Jacqui.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Hā Jiélín, your pronunciation is excellent and your speaking is very clear and sound. You also make reasonable pauses bewteen phrases that represent different bits of meaning. Good job! I suggest that you work on the tones in your future speaking works.-- Zhao Laoshi You recording is reallly good Jaqui! You spoke very clearly, and it was really easy to follow your story because you put good emphasis on the prahses in the story. Well done!!- Bella D.  That was really great Jacqui! Your pronunciation was really good and you paused in the right places which made it obvious when a sentence had ended which was exellent!!!! - Milla!! That is a really good recording Jacqui. You pronounced all the words and phrases really well and everything was totally easy to understand. You were very fluent in the way that you spoke through the whole story-Katherine Really good Jaqui! it was really well done -Maggie Jaqui you sounded great! i could understand everything you were saying and it helped because you paused and we knew the end of the sentence. well done :) -- Catya This sounded great! I liked how your clear pronunciation in each word. Well done. -Melissa  Mila how can you sound that good!! it sounded so good, I understood everything and I thought that everything you said was spoken really well!! Awesome job Bella B  That was really good Jacqui I could understand it all. Your tones are also really good. Keep up the good work Jacqui :) - Isabella || 周 开娅 ||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Catya.wma" width="92" height="92" || Zhōu Kāiyà, your pronunciation is outstanding, and most amazingly, your tones are near native! Very impressive piece of work! Keep up your good work!-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Zhōu Kāiyà
 * < Guān Sèlín

关 瑟琳
||<  ||<   ||< media type="file" key="Nick story 2.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Guān Sèlín, your reading is fluent and most of your words are clearly pronounced. Pay attention to the pronunciation of a few words such as "zhuozi" and the tones of some characters such as "liang (two)" and "baimao" etc. I suggest that you use your hands to guide you with your tones when you practice your speaking in the future. Follow the physical curves of the tones and ask your voice to align with the direction of these tones. Good effort!-- Zhao Laoshi This sounds really fluent Katherine! Your pronounciation is really good and your story is easy to follow because you have good pauses.Well Done!- Bella D. Good job on this recording, it was clear as your articulation was at a well standard! -Mel Good Work Katherine, your pronounication was really good and you paused which mad ethe story easy to follow! :) <3 Jacqui That was really good Katherine!!! You were reallu fluent and you had very good pronounciation!!! - Milla!! ||
 * < Mài Ānzhuō

麦 安卓
||< http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=4596397&height=267&width=200 ||<  ||<   || Your pronunciation of single words is very good, however, you need to pay more attention to the intonation and the rhythm of the sentences. Basically, separate the language into smaller chunks, either in words or phrases. For example, "Xianzai/, Nick/meiyou/sange Hanbaobao/, tayou/liange Hanbaobao."- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Mò Ǎilì

莫 霭莉
||< media type="custom" key="9701184" width="70" height="70" || Good try Mò Ǎilì! Try to record your voice with a microphone. In that case, it will be your real voice talking in the video! -- Zhao Laoshi ||< media type="file" key="Nick chinese story.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Mò Ǎilì, congrats on telling the whole story smoothly and nicely. Good effort! Your tones sound good. You just need to pay attention to some words' pronunciations, such as "zhuozi (table)" "le (indicating past tense)." In addition, you used "yi zhi" as the measure word for "nanhair". In fact, "zhi" is the measure for animals. You may say"yi zhi mao (a cat)" or "yi zhi gou (a dog)". Human beings cannot be measured by "zhi". LOL I have recorded this story on my own and have attached it on the top of this class. Please listen to it and fix your speaking errors. Again, good work and keep it up!-- Zhao Laoshi ||
 * < Qín Suǒfēi

秦 索菲
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 * < Chén Mànlí

陈 曼璃
||< media type="custom" key="9703954" width="70" height="70" media type="custom" key="10247851" width="70" height="70" || That was a nice start Manli! Use a microphone to record your sentences. See how your real talking matches the video!-- Zhao Laoshi ||< media type="file" key="nick.mp3" width="240" height="20" || Chén Mànlí, your tones are very good, very Chinese-like. Good work on that! You only need to pay attention to the pronunciation of a few individual words, such as "Meiguo," "zhua" (grab) and "xianzai (now)." You should try to speak up more in our future lessons to let your talent in recognizing subtle difference between tones have its place.-- Zhao Laoshi Melissa! you sounded so good! Your tones were excellent and your pronounciation was incredible, if I didnt know you I could have thought chinese was your first language :) - bronte Great job melissa!! Your pronounciation was great except for a few words but otherwise you were amazing <3 - Eliza || 安妮 ||   ||   || media type="custom" key="10307235" || Ān Ní, your fluency of this recording work is outstanding. You have also read it with emotions and feelings which is important for language learning- to feel the language through tones and intonations. I suggest that you use your hands to direct your tones along their physical curves when you practice the reading and pronouncing in the future. Great work!-- Zhao Laoshi  Good job Antonia it was clear to understand your pronunciation is so good and your tones are really good as well. - Isabella  Fantastic Job Annie, you are a very good story teller! I could understand what you were saying and you made it exciting through your usage of tones. This was excellent :) - Bronte Good story telling! YOUR PRONOUNCIATION WAS AWESOME! i could clearly understard all your words - eliza ||
 * Ān Ní