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Theme-based, progressive and easy to follow Mandarin Chinese Lessons.
40 Podcasts:
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Lesson 189. Benefits of Drinking Green Tea.
Learn various names of green tea in Mandarin Chinese and about benefits of drinking green tea from the situational dialog of this lesson.
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Lesson 001. Greetings in Chinese.
There are several ways of saying hello in Chinese. Learn how to greet people you meet for the first time and people you have not seen for a long time. You can start learning Mandarin from this lesson. In order to download all 100+ lessons with full PDF transcripts and worksheets, please become a registered [...]
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Lesson 001. PDF Transcript (Read First).
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Lesson 002. Pronunciation Basics. Chinese Tones.
Tones in Chinese 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.
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Lesson 003. More Greetings and Expressing Needs in Chinese
More greetings and expressing basic needs in Chinese. Learn how to say ‘I want…’ or ‘I don’t want’ and a lot more!
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Lesson 004. Introducing People. Nationalities and Occupations.
Introducing people. Where are you from and what’s your occupation? Phonetics rules and changes in Chinese tones.
Lesson 004. Extras.
Addition to Lesson Four. Review Chinese Tones.
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Lesson 005. What’s your name? What’s your family name?
What’s your name? What’s your family name in Mandarin Chinese?
Listen to this lesson and you will also learn a lot more!
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Lesson 006. Chinese food is good to eat!
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 [...]
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Lesson 007. Let’s Review!
Let’s review the key words and sentence patterns from the previous lessons and learn new useful expressions.
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Lesson 008. Let’s talk about hobbies.
What’s your hobby? What do you like to do? Find out about your special hobby and how to call it in Mandarin Chinese.
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Lesson 009. Weather and Seasons.
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!
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Lesson 010. Meeting New People. Name cards in China.
This lesson will help you to make new acquaintances, learn how to exchange name 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.
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Lesson 011. Buying and Bargaining in Chinese.
In this lesson you will learn how to buy things and how to bargain in 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.
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Lesson 012. Home sweet home.
In this lesson you will learn about your home and about things you can find in your home. You’ll be able to say all that in Chinese. This lesson presents many new words, the main focus of this lesson is on sentence patterns: ” in…., at…. on…, under…..
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Lesson 013. My Family.
Learn about a family, family members, etc. In the grammar section, you will learn the “filler” words in Chinese, which will help you to fill the gap in your speech while you’re thinking.
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Lesson 014. Calendar and Time.
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.
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Lesson 015. Making Phone Calls.
Make a phone call and speak Chinese. After studying this lesson, you will no longer be afraid to speak Chinese on the phone.
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Lesson 016. Visiting friends, giving gifts, drinking culture.
In this lesson we are going to talk about visiting
friends and relatives, giving gifts and about
Chinese drinking culture.
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Lesson 017. Taxi Ride. Giving directions.
In this lesson we are talking about taking a taxi ride and about giving or asking for directions in Mandarin Chinese. You will learn all possible ways of giving direction 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 [...]
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Lesson 018. I can speak a little Chinese.
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.
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Lesson 019. Traveling in China (Part 1)
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, [...]
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Lesson 020. Traveling in China (Part 2)
We continue to learn words and phrases useful when you travel in China. The dialogs are based on some real life situations and the language that you hear in these dialogs can be used directly, it is the language that people actually speak. The dialogs are recorded several times, with English translation and only in [...]
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Lesson 021. I don’t feel well. Visit to a doctor.
Sometimes you 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 that you want to see a doctor. Let the doctor take your temperature and prescribe traditional Chinese medicine for you.
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Lesson 022. Sport and Exercise. I’m a football fan.
Learn in Chinese about playing sports and doing excercises. Are you a football 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.
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Lesson 023. How Old Are You? Happy Birthday!
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 [...]
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Lesson 024. Dating and Relationships.
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.
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Lesson 025. Colors and Numbers. Review.
In this lesson we will learn all common colors and numbers in Mandarin Chinese.
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Lesson 026. Sing and Learn. Sweety Sweet.
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 [...]
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Lesson 027. Working in China. Office Vocabulary.
This lesson will teach you some very common and useful vocabulary and sentence patterns used when you work 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 [...]
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Lesson 028. Renting an apartment in China.
Renting an apartment in China. Find and rent an apartment you like in Shanghai, ask how big is your future apartment, how much is the rent and what district of the city it is located.
After learning this lesson, you will be able to use Mandarin Chinese to find your own apartment in China.
The structure of [...]
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Lesson 029. In Chinese Supermarket.
Learn practical and useful vocabulary about buying food in a supermarket in China. Learn names of the food products that we cannot live without, like bread, butter, milk, yoghurt, cheese, eggs, meat etc. Living in China can be tough if you can’t find the food you are used to. And after all, it’s much safer [...]
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Lesson 030. Review. Directions and Location.
This is a review lesson(but of course, with some new vocabulary). Let’s review phrases related to showing the direction and location in Mandarin Chinese and such directional verbs as lai2(to come) and qu4(to go).
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Lesson 031. How does it taste or smell?
Tastes, smells, flavors in Mandarin Chinese. How does it taste? How does it smell? etc.
Lesson PDF transcripts include extra grammar information, not available in the audio version.
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Lesson 032. Household Duties in Mandarin.
Ask an a yi( a housekeeper in Mandarin Chinese) to do the household duties. Everything you need about household duties in Mandarin Chinese is in this lesson. Feel free to download and subscribe for lesson PDF transcript.
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Lesson 033. Listen and Sing Along. Grammar Update.
Another great song in Mandarin Chinese to improve your listening comprehension.
Learn new vocabulary, listen and practice to sing along.
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Video Extension One. Introducing Yourself.
Watch and listen to this dialog 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 my first audio lessons. Subscribed listeners will have access to a full PDF transcript of this lesson with a vocabulary section. Download and watch [...]
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Lesson 034. Doing business in China
Business in China. Order products from a factory in China in Mandarin Chinese.
If you plan to do business with China and will order products manufactured in China, you will find this lesson quite useful.
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Video Extension Two. How to bargain in Mandarin Chinese.
Watch and learn how to buy and bargain in Mandarin Chinese. This is a video dialog of lesson 35.
This lesson is based on the vocabulary of the previous audio lessons with some new words and expressions. Subscribed users will receive a complete PDF lesson transcript for this video episode together with lesson 35 with English [...]
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Lesson 035. How to bargain in Mandarin Chinese
Bargaining in China is important, it’s a part of the culture here. Review how to buy things and also learn new useful phrases from this lesson.
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Lesson 036. Coming to China. Visa and Tickets.
The first thing you will need to get before coming to China is a Chinese visa. Learn about what types of visas are there, how to apply for a visa and make sure you do not expire your visa. Find out what will happen if your visa is expired.
Book your plane tickets, either one-way or [...]
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Lesson 037. Holidays and Vacations.
Holidays and Vacations. What holidays (festivals) are there in China and what people do during these holidays? Have a nice a holiday! Have a nice weekend! Middle Autumn Festival and moon cakes, Chinese New Year and Dragon Boat Festival. Learn about these traditional Chinese holidays and much more. In the situational dialogs you will hear [...]
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Lesson 038. Investment in China
Investing in China. This lesson is about making an investment in Shanghai, but it’s not limited to it, everyone will find a lot of useful stuff in this lesson, used for daily conversation in Mandarin Chinese.
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Lesson 039. Computers and Internet.
Vocabulary and expressions in Mandarin Chinese related to using a computer and Internet. Working with files and folders, chatting in Chinese with your buddies on MSN. Your computer has crashed! Tell your Chinese online friend that you need to restart your computer and that you will be back online in a moment.
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Lesson 040. Can You Repair It?
This lesson will teach you the expressions in Mandarin Chinese used when you need to have your things fixed.
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Lesson 041. Opening a bank account in China.
This lesson models the real situation of opening a bank account in Mainland China.
You will learn the words and expressions in Mandarin Chinese and will be able to speak Mandarin Chinese to a bank clerk in China and open a bank account. It’s a very comprehensive lesson with many new and useful expressions.
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Lesson 042. Teaching Mandarin Chinese.
From this lesson you will learn the words and expressions in Mandarin Chinese related to teaching and education. As usual, this lesson starts with the new vocabulary followed by situational dialog and grammar notes.
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Lesson 043. Chinese Traditional Art.
Learn about Chinese Art, Chinese traditional paintings. Find out what’s the difference between traditional Chinese paintings and western oil paintings. Chinese calligraphy.
Situational dialogs in this lesson are read several times, with pauses in necessary places for you to repeat them.
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Lesson 044. Driving in China
Learn about driving in China and about getting a Chinese driving license.
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Lesson 045. Visiting a Hospital.
See a doctor in China and visit a Chinese hospital. This lesson will teach you the names of some common diseases and the names of the departments in a Chinese hospital. In case of emergency, it’s important to know how to call an ambulance in China.
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Lesson 046. Baby talk in Mandarin Chinese.
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