Learn Mandarin Chinese Through Interesting Stories -HSK2

Learn to say inside and seating in this cinema story, using verbs 坐 and 站, returning to one's seat, and the idea of not taking the wrong seat.

Explore the character 影, where the left part signals sunlight and the right signals shadow; blocked sunlight forms a shadow. It is pronounced ying, meaning shadow, and related to movie.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 分, tracing its original meaning of cutting something into two halves, its pronunciation fin, and its usage to denote minutes.

Story 2 点外卖 follows a busy doctor who orders takeout with a mobile phone after work, finding it convenient and cheap, then eats meals like dumplings and noodles.

Draw the character 饭 by connecting the left-side vessel with food to the right-side repetition meaning; practice depicting eating, chewing, and swallowing as continuous actions, and note the pronunciation 'fun'.

Analyze the character guan: its left half represents a hotel that housed officials, while the right half represents the pronunciation of the word original; the meaning is hotel, pronounced guan.

Follow a husband, wife, and child as they drive home, face a broken elevator, and climb the stairs together while singing, practicing 回家, 开车, 一起, 走楼梯, and 一边唱歌一边走.

Learn the Chinese character 电, originally meaning lightning, showing rain above and lightning across the sky, and remember its pronunciation den as it represents electricity.

Draw the Chinese character 梯 by its tree-like shape representing wood and its right half denoting order, with the original meaning as a letter pronounced te.

Follow a boy and a girl taking a walk in the park, discussing 今天晚上的天气 and 有点冷, and exploring Chinese grammar such as 看了看, 把, and 以为.

Master the Chinese character 散 in Mandarin by drawing the character and grasping its original meaning of dispersing, as explained through a holistic approach and its pronunciation.

Draw the Chinese character 步 and understand its meaning as step, using the caption's note that it is pronounced as boot.

Learn the Mandarin word 口渴 (thirsty) and the characters for mouth and water, then explore 把 constructions and a story about a doctor forgetting a sponge during surgery.

Explore drawing the Chinese character 渴 by tracing the water radical on the left and the right component that expresses thirst, linking dry water to the concept of invisible thirst.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 身, tracing its origin as a pregnant figure and its extended meanings of body and self, pronounced shin, with shante meaning body.

This story follows my good friend 陈陈 from primary through middle school to university, as he moves to Hangzhou for work and I go to Shanghai, yet we still meet.

Learn how the character 海 represents the sea, with the left half symbolizing water and other parts representing mother and men, illustrating the sea as the mother of water.

Learn to draw the character 来 and follow its origins from wheat to calm, with its pronunciation and a listed meaning.

A shop presents three parrots for 300, 500, and 800 yuan; the first can say many words, the second can talk and dance, and the third is the boss.

Explore how the land grows everything and the shape of holding soil with both hands, highlighting bay as an Asian currency and symbol of wealth, pronounced goy, and expensive.

Learn to draw the chinese character 舞, whose shape resembles a woman dancing with an oxtail in her hand, and know its pronunciation oo keo dance.

Learn mandarin through story 8 '小狗和小猫' for HSK2 as a puppy meets a friend's kitten, sees it first, second, and third time, then walks over to play and become friends.

Draw the Chinese character 害, showing a house above a mouth, to convey harm and injury from talking at home. It is pronounced high and connected to being afraid.

Draw the Chinese character 怕 by linking the left heart shape to fear and the right side's emptiness to a blank heart when afraid, and practice pa (pà).

Explain a story about 签名, where the teacher asks everyone to have their parents sign the math test paper at home, and 小明 asks his dad to sign.

Explore how bamboo slips show a signature painting, where the lower part signifies all and vouchers require signing or painting. Note the pronunciation: chin chin ming, sign name.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 闭, which depicts a door closed by a ledge between two doors. Understand that it means close and is pronounced.

A woman in a shop sees two identical earrings with different prices, thinks the price is wrong, buys the cheaper pair, and exits happily as clerks comment.

Draw the Chinese character 耳, connect its form to the ear concept, and learn its pronunciation described as ah ah.

Draw the Chinese character 环 by visualizing a circle shaped jade object and a person admiring a ring on the chest.

this lesson narrates ten fruits, shows eating four and six outside, and explains four plus six equals ten, with 那么 meaning 'so' and phrases like 在/里面/外面 for Chinese word order.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 水, with a middle meander for water flow and dots for droplets; the ancient form also means river and is pronounced shui, meaning water.

Explore the character 果, shaped like a tree bearing fruit, and its pronunciation is gore schwager fruit.

A mother signs up her son for a swimming class to learn swimming; on the first day at the pool, he practices for two hours and enjoys playing with water.

Draw the Chinese character 玩, focusing on the left jade-like component that signals play with jade; the caption notes its pronunciation as one one and mentions 'devil'.

Learn how the Chinese character 饱 expresses fullness, with the left side for eating and the right indicating a full stomach; the original meaning is to eat enough, bol chapa.

Explore story 13 '妻子的歌声' as a wife's singing drives the plot while introducing Mandarin grammar like 一唱歌就…, 到阳台去, and the phrases 你不喜欢我的歌声吗, 我喜欢你的歌声, 并没有打你.

Draw the Chinese character 离, guided by a scene of a large bird ensnared by a long-handled net, and learn its pronunciation li li kai, meaning leave.

Draw the Chinese character 声 by exploring its lively meaning through imagery of hammering ancient instruments and singing, and practice its pronunciation.

Analyze the Chinese character 漂 by pairing the left water radical with the right component to express floating on water and the rise of flame, illustrating its original meaning.

Explore a mandarin short story about planning an afternoon: go to the cinema, call a good friend, and shop for a white dress at the mall for herself.

Learn the Chinese character 亮, meaning bright, and how high or a table in a bright place conveys brightness, with the caption noting meaning and that 亮 is pronounced Leia.

A father urges his son to be grateful for his mother's daily care—cooking, washing, sending him to school, and earning money to provide.

Explore the Chinese character 恩, where the heart and a person symbolize kindness from the heart and closeness that strengthens mutual feelings, conveying gratitude.

Draw the character 送 by combining left action and right fire, while noting how ancient people cherished fire and expressed friendship by giving gifts, pronounced som som li wu som.

Explore 应酬, or social engagement, in Chinese through a father-son dialogue about making a phone call, telling and asking about meaning, and preparing for social obligations.

Explore the Chinese character 酬, whose left wine-jar and right water-and-land shape expresses stopping after the host toasts the guest again, with reward and social engagement pronounced Chul Bo Chul.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 前 and connect its meaning to front, as the story about a foot on a ship signals moving forward.

In the office, everyone talks about their kids. A new coworker says I have a very perfect son who does not smoke or drink and goes to bed early.

Discover the original meaning of beauty in the Chinese character 美, and how the glyph depicts a person dressed beautifully with horns or feathers, pronounced mei.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 事 and connect its meaning to hunting imagery, general things, pronunciation, and the idea of searching things.