Welcome to the first Mandarin Chinese lesson for beginners, focusing on spoken language. This episode teaches essential greetings such as "hello," "how are you," "long time no see," and "goodbye," along with their usage. It also provides a crucial explanation of the four musical tones in Chinese, emphasizing their importance for clear communication, and concludes with practical conversation practice.
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Chinese musical tones convey differences in meaning. In this lesson I will teach you how to pronounce them correctly. You can practice Chinese pronunciation with me. Don’t worry, I guarantee, with my lessons you will master your Chinese pronunciation and tones very well. In order to download all 200+ lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets, please signup today!
More greetings and expressing basic needs in Chinese. Learn how to say ‘I want…’ or ‘I don’t want’ and a lot more! In order to download all 200+ lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets, please become a registered user.
Watch this video lesson and learn how to write numbers 1-10 in Mandarin Chinese as well as learn how to pronounce them. This lesson teachers some basics of Mandarin Chinese, and you will learn more in the following lessons. Please don’t forget to sign up in order to download the complete Chinese course with full PDF lesson transcripts and worksheets.
Introducing people. Where are you from and what’s your occupation? Phonetics rules and changes in Chinese tones. Get ALL 200+ Mp3 lessons with PDF transcripts by becoming a premium subscriber.
What’s your name? What’s your family name in Mandarin Chinese? Listen to this lesson and you will also learn a lot more! Download ALL 200+ lessons with full PDF lesson transcripts and worksheets after you signup and become a registered member.
This lesson will help you order your favorite Chinese food in Chinese. Order Chinese food in a Chinese restaurant with the help of this lesson. It contains a list of popular and delicious Chinese food suitable for our tastes. Don’t try to memorize the names of all dishes at this stage, however you can bring the lesson transcript with you to a Chinese restaurant and order what you want from the list. Signup to download all 200+ lessons with PDF transcripts.
Let’s review the key words in Mandarin Chinese, sentence patterns from previous lessons and learn new useful expressions. Signup to download this lessons review PDFs transcript and worksheets.
What’s your hobby? What do you like to do? Find out about your special hobby and how to call it in Mandarin Chinese. Signup and become registered member to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts.
How’s the weather today? Is it hot in summer in your country? Learn other phrases and vocabulary related to weather and seasons. Lesson’s vocabulary includes such words as ‘today’, ‘yesterday’, ‘tomorrow’, names of the months and numbers from 1 to 12. Learn about four seasons of the year: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and much more! Become a premium subscriber to download ALL 252+ audio lessons with full PDF lesson transcripts and worksheets.
This lesson will help you to make new acquaintances, learn how to exchange business cards in China and how to make a good first impression. You will learn other ways of asking a question and will have a chance to experiment with Chinese sentences by yourself. Please register to download ALL lessons with the PDFs.
In this lesson you will learn how to buy things and how to bargain in Mandarin Chinese, also you will learn more numbers and Chinese monetary units. At the end of the lesson there are answers to the worksheet of Lesson 10. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 252+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
In this lesson you will learn Chinese expressions about your home and things you can find in your home. You’ll be able to say all that in Mandarin. This lesson presents many new words, the main focus of this lesson is on sentence patterns: ” in…., at…. on…, under…..Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
Learn Chinese expressions about family, family members, etc. In the grammar section of this lesson, you will learn the “filler” words in Mandarin, to help you fill in the gap in your speech while you’re thinking. Please signup and become a registered member to download ALL 252+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts, worksheets and more!
In this lesson you will learn the calendar and time concepts in Chinese, you will be able to talk about year, month, week and date. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
Watch and listen to this dialogue in Mandarin Chinese. We tried to make it as natural as possible. This lesson covers greetings, introduction and other basic expressions you can learn in our first audio lessons. Subscribed listeners will have access to a full PDF transcript of this lesson with a vocabulary section.
Make a phone call and speak Mandarin Chinese! After studying this lesson, you will no longer be afraid to speak Chinese over the phone. Please signup and become a registered member to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets and additional situational dialogues
In this lesson we are going to learn about visiting friends, relatives, giving gifts and about Chinese drinking culture. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
Learn about taking a taxi and giving or asking for directions in Mandarin Chinese. You will learn all possible ways of giving directions instructions to a taxi driver with specific information about taking a taxi in Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan. You can also use the expressions from this lesson in other situations involving asking for or giving directions. Please signup and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts, worksheets and additional dial...
In this lesson we will mainly concentrate on some aspects of Chinese grammar, such as words expressing time as adverbials, prepositional phrase and optative verbs. Also, you will learn how to say that you can speak a little Chinese. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
Have you ever thought about traveling to China? If you do plan to travel there, you will probably need to know some useful expressions in Mandarin Chinese to help you get around, find a hotel, change money etc. Even in the best Chinese hotels not everyone speaks English and when you go outside to the street, chances are that nobody speaks English at all! Please signup and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts, worksheets, mobile apps and more...
We continue to learn words and phrases useful when you travel in China. The dialogues are based on real-life situations and the language that you hear in these dialogues can be used right away, it is the language that people actually speak. The dialogues are recorded several times, with English translation and then only in Chinese as a part of the conversation with a native Chinese speaker. Please signup and become a registered member to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts....
Sometimes you just don’t feel well, you have a cold, you are coughing and have a running nose. Learn how to say that you don’t feel well and want to see a doctor in Mandarin Chinese. Let the doctor take your temperature and prescribe traditional Chinese medicine for you. Please signup today and become a registered member to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts, worksheets and extra situational dialogues.
Learn in Chinese about playing sports and doing exercises. Are you a football (soccer) fan? From this lesson you will learn some general expressions about sport and physical exercises in Mandarin Chinese. This lesson’s vocabulary: health, body, exercise, names of different sports, playing different sports, working out in a gym, etc. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
This lesson is about asking “how old are you?” question in Chinese. There are different ways of asking the question “how old are you?” in Chinese, it depends on the age of the person you are talking to. Asking a child is different from asking a person of your age or an elderly person. Buy your friend a birthday cake and sing a “Happy Birthday Song” in Chinese! Find out what animal are you according to Chinese Lunar calendar, etc. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL ...
This lesson is devoted to dating and relationships. You will learn how to say ” I love you”, “I have feelings for you”, “love at first sight”, “you are my only one” and other expressions which may be useful when you converse with your future or current Chinese girlfriend (boyfriend) etc. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 276+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets.
In this lesson you will learn all the common colours and numbers in Mandarin Chinese. Please sign up and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 200+ audio lessons with full PDF transcripts, worksheets and calligraphy videos.
In this lesson we you will learn a popular song in Mandarin Chinese. Songs are very good for learning a foreign language, listening to them can improve your listening comprehension a lot. You will also learn other related vocabulary and sentence patterns. The song you will hear in this lesson has always been one of my favorite Chinese songs. It is really simple and easy to sing. Enjoy it. Please signup and become a registered subscriber to download ALL 270+ audio lessons with full PDF transcript...
This lesson will teach you some very common and useful vocabulary and sentence patterns used when working in China. You will learn office vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese and at the end of this lesson will be able to understand and say such sentences and phrases as “what’s your email address”, “did you receive my fax” or “my printer is broken”, etc. Full and detailed PDF lesson transcripts and worksheets are available for subscribed users.
