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• Exchange basic greetings.
• Create personal inquiries using 什么 and varying levels of politeness.
• Compose reciprocal questions with 呢.
• Formulate salutations using titles.
• Generate statements of fact using 是.
• Construct inquiries using statements and 吗.
• Memorize new vocabulary and correctly write the characters introduced in this lesson.
• Describe the naming scheme used by Chinese and contrast that with naming customs in the United States.
• Learn the pinyin and correct stroke order for the 15 characters introduced in lesson 1-2.
• Learn the new vocabulary introduced in lesson 1-2. You can practice with the online Table Building Activity.