The document provides Chinese language lessons on basic sentence patterns for introductions. It includes sample dialogues where one person asks for another's surname, given name, or the name of a third person. Pinyin and character versions of the sentences are given with English translations. The lessons cover asking for and giving names in Chinese.

1. Chinese Link Lesson 2
Sentence patterns
Nín guì xìng?
您贵姓？
Joanne Chen
IVC Chinese instructor
2014

2. Lesson 2 Sentence patterns
Textbook page 19
A. qǐng wèn, nín guì xìng?
A. (May I ask your surname?)
B. wǒ xìng Lǐ. (My last name is Li)
A. nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? (What is your name?)
B. wǒ jiào Wú Xǐaoměi. (I am called Wu Xiaomei)
A. tā shì shéi? (Who is she?)
B. tā shì Yú Yīng. (She is Yu Ying)

3. L.2 Sentences patterns in Characters
A：请问，您贵姓？
B：我姓李。
A：你叫什么名字？
B：我叫吴小美。
A：她是谁？
B：她是于英。

4. A. qǐng wèn, nín guì xìng?
(May I ask your last name?)
B. wǒ xìng Lǐ.
(My last name Li)

5. A. nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?
(What is your name?)
B. wǒ jiào Wú Xǐaoměi.
(My name is Wu xiaomei.)

6. A. tā shì shéi?
(Who is she?)
B. tā shì Yú Yīng.
(She is Yu Ying)

7. A. tā shì shéi?
B. tā shì Yú Yīng.
• A. tā shì shéi?