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你好, my friend. Perhaps you are an absolute beginner in Chinese language or have studied before, but now you have forgotten a lot, it's okay, this course is for absolute beginners who want to learn Mandarin Chinese well and in a fun way.
Each Section of this course will have Two Chapters and each chapter will have Five Videos:
Vocabulary Words
Writing Characters
Grammar
Dialogue
Speaking Practice
你好, my friend. Perhaps you are an absolute beginner in Chinese language or have studied before, but now you have forgotten a lot, it's okay, this course is for absolute beginners who want to learn Mandarin Chinese well and in a fun way.
Each Section of this course will have Two Chapters and each chapter will have Five Videos:
Vocabulary Words
Writing Characters
Grammar
Dialogue
Speaking Practice
Vocabulary Words. In this section, we will learn how to pronounce words correctly, we will learn their meanings and I will use these words in examples, we will make sentences.
Writing Characters. This exercise will also help us to remember characters better. This part is for those who like to write characters. But this is not necessary, in real life we will very rarely need to write characters by hand, since now many people type on smartphones and computers.
Grammar. Here I will explain in detail the different types of grammar with different examples. These grammars will also be applied in the Dialogue part of the same lesson. In this part, you can also improve your reading skills at the same time as we read the sentences.
Dialogues. Here we will read the texts of interesting stories, we will practice the words and grammar that we learned in the chapter. Here we will also listen to audio and watch video of the dialogues to better recognize the words. I recommend watching the video several times to better practice reading, listening and pronunciation.
Speaking Practice. I know it's not really easy to learn to speak the language through video lessons, so I tried to make our course as useful as possible for you, and added a series of videos to practice Speaking Chinese and improve your listening skills. Here I ask you a question in Chinese, you can stop the video and try to formulate the answer. And I will also give you a 'potential answer' so that you can know how to answer such a question. If it is not clear what I said, it's okay, at the end of the video I will show you the answers that I gave to those questions, and their translations into English.
At the end of each section, I also prepared Assignments for you to translate texts from English into Chinese, this will help you learn to think better in Chinese. In total there are in this course 40 Quizzes, 20 Assignments, 20 Listening Tests, as well as 2 Practice Reading Tests (in total, there will be 20 texts for Reading Practice), where you can test your knowledge and improve your skills.
At the beginning, I will teach very slowly, and over time, once you have a certain foundation of Chinese, I will gradually increase the pace of teaching, with each lesson I will teach faster and faster. I think that this is very important, given the fact that each student receives information differently, someone needs faster, and someone needs more slowly. But, my dear friend, at any time you can play the video faster by adjusting the speed, you will have such a function in the player.
I tried to create a course that will really help you learn Chinese well. But first I would like to give some useful tips and recommendations:
Please do not listen to those who say that you can learn Chinese with the pinyin system only. Why? Because you can learn from pinyin, but up to a certain point, then pinyin will not help, Chinese will not be entirely clear to you. If you go to China, you'll realize that in real life, pinyin won't be that important. If you want to learn Chinese well, it is very important to be friends with Chinese characters, and pinyin will be a great tool for learning characters, as well as working on our pronunciation, and we will use pinyin for this.
In this course, please take your time and work on each lesson of the course in detail, complete quizzes and be sure that you already recognize all the words and only then move on to the next lesson. Since all lessons are sequentially connected to each other, it is important to take your time and work on each lesson well so that the next lessons do not seem too difficult.
After completing all the lessons, you will be able to communicate freely on a lot of topics related to travel, university life, work, personal life, sports, family, shopping and many others. This course is perfect for people who are going to live in China.
Together we can do it, my dear friend. Let's start our journey. :)
• Learning Tones
• Learning about Initials and Finals of Pinyin System
• Practicing Tones and Pinyin
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• Course Introduction
• Learning 15 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 1, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 1 Part 1
• Exchange basic greetings
• Request a person’s last name and full name and provide your own
Learning 11 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 1, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 1 Part 2
• Determine whether someone is a teacher or a student
• Ascertain someone’s nationality
The Modal Verb 想 (xiǎng, want to; would like to)
Verb+Object as a Detachable Compound
Answer the teacher's questions, improve your listening and speaking level
Learning 21 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 2, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 2 Part 1
• Employ basic kinship terms
• Describe a family photo
Learning 17 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 2, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 2 Part 2
• Ask about someone’s profession
• Say some common professions
• Ask friends out to see a movie
• Set up plans for the weekend
Numbers from 0 to 99999999+
Learning 29 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 3, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 3 Part 1
• Tell and speak about time and dates
• Talk about one’s age and birthday
Learning 14 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 3, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 3 Part 2
Affirmative + Negative (A-not-A) Questions (I)
The adverb 还 (hái, also; in addition)
• Invite someone to dinner
• Arrange a dinner date
The Particle 了 (le) (I)
The Adverb 才 (cái, not until)
Learning 20 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 4, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 4 Part 1
Word Order in Chinese
Affirmative + Negative (A-not-A) Questions (II)
The Conjunction 那 (那么) (nà {me}, then; in that case)
去 (qù, to go) + Action
Questions with 好吗 (hǎo ma)
• Say and write the terms for basic personal hobbies
• Ask about someone’s hobbies
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 4, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 4 Part 2
The Preposition 给 (gěi)
The Modal Verb 要 (yào, will; be going to) (I)
The Adverb 别 (bié, don’t)
Learning 27 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 5, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 5 Part 1
一下 (yí xià) and 一点儿 ({yì} diǎnr) Moderating the Tone of Voice
Adjectives as Predicates (很 hěn)
The Preposition 在 (zài, at; in; on)
The Particle 吧 (ba)
• Welcome a visitor
• Introduce one person to another
• Compliment someone on his/her house
• Ask for beverages as a guest at someone else’s place
• Offer beverages to a visitor;
Learning 7 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 5, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 5 Part 2
• Briefly describe a visit to a friend’s place
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 6, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 6 Part 1
• Answer a phone call and initiate a phone conversation
• Set up an appointment with a teacher on the phone
Learning 12 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 6, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 6 Part 2
Time Expressions
The Modal Verb 得 (děi, must)
Directional Complements (I)
• Ask for a favor
• Ask someone to return your call
Learning 25 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 7, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 7 Part 1
Descriptive Complements (得 de) (I)
The Adverbs 太 (tài, too) and 真 (zhēn, really)
The Adverb 就 (jiù) (I)
Double Objects
Ordinal Numbers
有(一)点儿 (yǒu{yì}diǎnr, somewhat, rather; a little bit)
• Comment on one’s performance in an exam
• Comment on one’s character writing
• Talk about one’s experience in learning Chinese vocabulary and grammar
Learning 15 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 7, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 7 Part 2
怎么 (zěnme, how come) in Questions
The 的 (de) Structure (I)
The Use of Nouns and Pronouns in Continuous Discourse
• Talk about one’s study habits
• Remark on typical scenes from one’s language class
Learning 22 new vocabulary words and making sentences
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 8, Part 1
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 8 Part 1
The Position of 'Time-When' Expressions
The Adverb 就 (jiù) (II)
一边...一边... (yìbiān…yìbiān...)
Series of Verbs/Verb Phrases
The Particle 了 (le) (II)
The Particle 的 (de) (III)
The Adverb 正在 (zhèngzài, be doing…)
• Describe the routine of a student’s life on campus
• Write a simple diary entry
Be able to write the characters of the vocabulary of Lesson 8, Part 2
Test your knowledge about vocabulary words of Lesson 8 Part 2
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