The Chinese language is simple to learn, really! In this first episode, Yao explains in details why it is so.
In this episode, you will also learn how to say some very simple things in Chinese such as basic greetings, self-introductions:
hello, I am xxx.
You are xxx(name).
This is a computer.
This is a pen.
This is a table, a chair.
etc…
1 comment November 14th, 2010
I drink tea
Wǒ hē chá
In this lesson, Yao and Kevin will be learning together learning a very useful word – to drink in Chinese. We will be also learning how to say several common drinks in Chinese, such as tea, coffee and water. Have fun!
1 comment October 11th, 2010
This is my book
Zhè shì wǒde shū.
We are going to teach you how to express persessive in Chinese: my book, your chair, my tea, your coffee etc. The key word is “de”, similar to the French “de” and Spanish “de”. The possessive is fairly straight forward in Chinese, it can be expressed by a simple formula: Pronoun + de + object.
October 11th, 2010
She is Evelyn and she is a nurse.
Tā shì Evelyn, tā shì hùshi.
We learned two pronouns in the previous lessons: I (wǒ) and you(nǐ). We are going to teach you how to say he and she in Chinese. We will also learn several interesting words about profession such as teacher, student, doctor, and nurse.
Have fun!
October 11th, 2010
Learn Beginner Chinese 6
Is that a watch? – Nà shìbúshi shǒubiǎo?
We are going to learn how to say cup, watch and telephone in Chinese. We learned how to say “this” in Chinese already and I am certain by now you must be very comfortable using it. So in this session’s learnchinesepod we would not bring it up again to bombard your ear, we are going to discover “nà” – the brother of “zhè”.
October 11th, 2010
Learn Beginner Chinese 5
What do you eat? – Nǐ chī shénme?
In this session’s learnchinesepod, we teach you how to eat! No, just kidding! You will be learning how to say “ I eat…” , “do you eat…?”, “what do you eat?” in Chinese. We will also serve you a very rich dinner if you can order them in Chinese: chicken, beef, pork, rice etc…
October 11th, 2010
Learn Beginner Chinese 4
What is that? – Nà shì shénme?
You have learned so far two different way to ask questions:
1) with “ma” – Yes-or-No question
2) with “shìbúshì” structure
Questions are important and they are key to our daily conversation since not only you can obtain information from other person, you can also show your interest!
We are going to teach you another very useful way to ask questions using “shénme”. This episode is important, because the three new words we are going to learn appear frequently into any conversation.
October 11th, 2010
In this session, you will be learning another way to ask yes-or-no questions in Chinese; it’s not as straightforward as the question formed with a “ma” ending (learned in the previous episode). But you can surely master it by following the instructor closely when you are listening to the sound file. Make sure you can say out the sentences loudly along with the recording.
October 11th, 2010
After a quick review, in this class you will be learning how to ask yes-or-no questions?! Don’t be scared, it’s really a piece of cake. If you are smart enough to turn on your computer and find learnchinesepod.com and download this document. I promise it wouldn’t take you more than 2 minutes to master the skill!
October 11th, 2010
If you are learning Chinese, no matter if you are an beginner or an advanced student, you shall be aware of paramount importance of the Chinese Pinyin. Good knowledge in Chinese Pinyin can greatly help you express yourself more clearly, it can also help you in archiving better listening comprehension. Here is a list of great resources that we compiled for you, have fun!
- Pinyin : A great collection of Chinese Pinyin Quiz to testing your listening comprehension of Pinyin and Chinese Pinyin tones. It’s fun, highly recommended!
- Pinyin Table: An Interactive Pinyin Table, you can find all Chinese Pinyin and hear Pinyin sound and tones.
- Chinese Pinyin Chinesepinyin.org has a great tool to convert Pinyin and teaching you how to type Pinyin. You can also find some Chinese lyrics, for free!
- Chinese chat http://chat.quickmandarin.com is a great online Pinyin chat tool, you don’t need to register, don’t to give E-mail address or names, just go and start to chat in Pinyin. Sometime you may need to be lucky to find someone to chat with. But mostly are Chinese learners there and even Chinese native speakers… but all Chat use Pinyin
- Online Chinese dictionary Ocdict.com is an amazingly simple to use online Chinese dictionary, it’s not only great for beginners but also a very advanced dictionary for native speakers. Just type in whatever in your mind, it can be a Pinyin like (wo, wo3, zhong1guo2, zhong), an English word or even a Chinese character, this Chinese dictionary lists you all the matching entries without even a click… nice…
- Quick Mandarin Library Here you can find a collection of great learn Chinese textbooks. You can find beginner Chinese textbooks, advanced Chinese textbooks, and Chinese character textbooks and more, all produced by Quick Mandarin, the best place to learn Chinese.
- Chinese Characters If you are learning Chinese characters, you will find this Visual Dictionary very entertaining. Over 6000 characters are nicely ordered (by frequency of use) in a beautiful interface, you can easily navigate through and hear the sound of each character and even see the English translation… This is also a great tool to gauge how many Chinese characters you actually know.
September 28th, 2010
