Archive for April, 2006
Hi there,
Thank you for visiting learnchinesepod.com. My name is Yao and am the founder of this pod cast. I started teaching Mandarin Chinese since 1999 in Shanghai and currently giving Chinese in New York City. Not long time ago, I discovered Podcasting and amazed by it’s philosophy and popularity(Along with Steve Job’s famous and cute iPOD!!)
I have successful teaching experience and published Mandarin Chinese related book. My objective is to develop the best podcasting material to support worldwide Mandarin learners. I don’t want to repeat the advantage of learning languages through podcasting… as if you are here reading this posting, you should well be aware of this.
We are still in the experimental period and critically need your feedback. We would love to hear any of your opinions, suggestions and/or ideas.
We also need volunteers joining this great project in various aspect such as web development, marketing research. Please let us know if you are interested.
April 11th, 2006
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…
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April 24th, 2006
Learn Beginner Chinese 4
What is that? – N 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.
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April 24th, 2006
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.
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April 24th, 2006
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!
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Learn Beginner Chinese 2 [14:55m]:
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April 24th, 2006
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…
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Learn Beginner Chinese 1 [22:52m]:
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April 24th, 2006
April 15th, 2006