Huan1 ying2! Welcome to the first Mandarin lesson. This is Paul.
Chinese consider food is the number one important stuff in life. Who else doesn’t ?
Food is the basic needs of human being. So let’s talk about food in our first lesson.
1) min2   yi2 shi2 wei2 tian1
(  people  consider food as heaven )
2) chi1 fan4
(  eat    rice = have a meal )
3) can1 guan3
( meal house = restaurant )
4)  ji 1 ( chicken )
5) niu2 ( cow )
6) yu2 ( fish )
7) xia1 ( shrimp )
8) rou4 ( meat )   9) cai4 ( dish or vegie ) 10) zhu1 ( pig )

If you master the above words, you may know how to say these:

ji1 rou4 (chicken meat)
niu2 rou4 (beef)
zhu1 rou4 (pork )
yu2 rou4 (fish meat )

We’ll learn more next time. See you.