This course will focus on the basic ability of Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking.
This course will focus on the basic ability of Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking.
What you’ll learn
- Introduction to Mandarin Chinese.
- Four tones + one tone.
- Pinyin mapped to English.
- Sentence structure & word orders.
- Words & the forms.
- Grammar in use.
Course Content
- Mandarin Speaking with Wu (Part 2) –> 9 lectures • 1hr 49min.
Requirements
This course will focus on the basic ability of Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking.
There is no Chinese writing in this course.
Target learners are as below:
Beginners starting from zero of Mandarin Chinese.
No requirements for age.
The learners speaking English.
The learners interested in Mandarin Chinese or Chinese culture.
The learners who would like to communicate with Chinese people for mutual learning, making friends or business.
Main contents are as below:
Introduction to Mandarin Chinese
Four tones + one tone
Pinyin mapped to English
Sentence structure & word orders
Words & the forms
Grammar in use
Starting from “Hello.”
“and” to connect two pronouns or nouns
“but” to indicate a different or opposite case
“not” to indicate a negative case
Yes or no questions
Wh-questions
Thank you & sorry
China & Chinese
Method of this course:
Using a natural way to learn Mandarin Chinese like a child.
Listening & speaking first (using Pinyin mapped to English).
Reading & writing second.
This course will work efficiently because of the reasons as below:
Systematic or logical (organized from easy to hard).
Topics and grammars are in use (saving time).
It starts with Pinyin only (for listening & speaking) rather than Chinese characters (for reading & writing) (easy and feasible way).
Pinyin is mapped to English pronunciations completely and correctly (easy for learning).