Chinese Quizzes and Chinese Trivia. MYLO: a new way to learn languages. Chinesewmike. CCTV Learn Chinese. Learn Chinese CRI ENGLISH. Zhongwen Red - Free Mandarin Lessons. Chinese Lesson Online. About Our Progressive Chinese Course ChineseLearnOnline.com is an online course in Mandarin Chinese for absolute beginners to intermediate students.
Our Mandarin Chinese course uses a progressive immersion technique that is unlike any other course out there. The beginning of the course is conducted entirely in English. English explanations are gradually replaced with Chinese that has been taught. This means that you’re constantly reviewing the vocabulary taught in earlier lessons. A tonal language likes Chinese requires a LOT of listening practice that books cannot give you. In a class, you have to divide your time with other students. CLO has two key advantages over many of the other podcasts out there: Many podcasts use a theme based approach. Many podcast courses out there teach in discrete levels. Day Day Up Chinese! In this first lesson we will learn the pronouns, the verb "to be", and the occupations "student", "teacher", and "businessperson".
After all, aren't we a little bit of all three? The simple sentence pattern of pronoun + be + complement is a a quick and easy way to convey information about people - "He is an American", "They are students", "She is my coworker" etc. Once you get in the basic form, it's simply a matter of plugging in additional vocabulary (which we will do in later lessons). 1.01 Pronouns Notes: He and she have the same pronunciation in Mandarin, tā; in the written language they are differentiated by their characters, 他 for he and 她 for she. 1.02 Pronouns and the verb "to be" Notes: The verb to be 是 shì does not decline, that is to say that its form stays the same no matter who is performing the action. 1.03 Pronouns, the verb "to be", and the noun complement "student" Vocabulary point: 学 xué is, on its own, a verb that means to study. 1.06 You cheeky monkey!
Notes: Exercises. Learn Chinese - Grammar and Vocabulary. Chinese Lessons Chinese is the official language of over 1,1 billion people and, as a mother tongue, it is the most spoken language in the world.
With regard to its classification, it is considered an isolated language, though it is the most important one within the Sino-Tibetan superfamily. Chinese is the language of the Han people, the majority ethnic group of China. Modern Standard Chinese is known as "Putonghua" (General Language) in mainland China, and as "Guoyu" (National Language) in Taiwan (Mandarin in English). Like most related languages it is monosyllabic, has very little inflection, and is tonal, assigning to words a distinctive relative pitch or pitch contour.
Spoken Chinese comprises many regional varieties. The earliest Chinese characters were pictographs, such as a crescent for the moon, or a circle with a dot in the center to represent the sun. We hope the lessons above helped you learn Chinese. Online English Chinese Dictionary, Learn Chinese.