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Learn over 58% of simple Chinese daily conversation and adopt a genuine Chinese accent.
This course follows the natural process of learning a language, just like how we learnt our mother language, which is completely different from the traditional way of language learning.
We will play a dialogue spoken by two to three native speakers. Listen as much as possible, like a little baby, emerse your brain into the conversation, pay attention to the gestures and any other kind of visual content matches the sound you hear and try to guess the meaning.
Learn over 58% of simple Chinese daily conversation and adopt a genuine Chinese accent.
This course follows the natural process of learning a language, just like how we learnt our mother language, which is completely different from the traditional way of language learning.
We will play a dialogue spoken by two to three native speakers. Listen as much as possible, like a little baby, emerse your brain into the conversation, pay attention to the gestures and any other kind of visual content matches the sound you hear and try to guess the meaning.
play the conversation as often as possible, until you are able to understand the content and even able to predict what the next word sounds like.
The video dialogue will be followed by an explanation lecture, with pin yin, and every detail from the video dialogue. You can listen, repeat, and try to imitate the pronounciation of a word using shadowing technique ( repeat right after you hear a word or a sentence) you can record yourself and compare yourself with native speaker.
In the end, there will be vocabulary extension PPT with sound track.
After finishing this course, you will be able to communicate with native Chiense speakers with confidence, even speak with a genuine Chinese accent.
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This is an introduction of 3 teachers. after finishing this course, please come back again and find out what the speech means
There are four different tones in mandarin Chinese, each conveys a different meaning. This lecture gives a good example of how different tones of the same pronunciation carries different meanings.
1. Listen to this video without having to know the meaning, play this video for at least 3-5 times, familiarize yourself with the tones, rhythms and how the sounds matches the visual contents in this video.
2. Go to the explanation lecture, which is a detailed explanation of every word and sentences in the video conversation. you will find out what those words mean and try to practice your pronunciation using the shadowing technique, which is to repeat right after you hear a word or a sentence.
3. Watch the vocabulary extension videos to enlarge your vocabularies, and try to fit the new words you learnt into existing sentence structures provided in the lecture explanation.
How to say:" What do you plan to do on Friday?"
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Ideal starting point for those new to Mandarin.
Focuses on essential phrases for real-world daily interactions.
Emphasizes immersion, listening, and repetition for intuitive learning.
Highly effective for achieving a genuine Chinese accent through shadowing.
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