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Chinese Language for Beginners : Pinyin Course
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Chinese Language for Beginners : Pinyin Course

Learn Chinese Pinyin, Master Chinese Tones, Chinese Speaking
Created byYiChi Learn Chinese
Last updated 7/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn to read Chinese Pinyin
  • Learn how to speak tones correctly
  • Understand & pronounce ALL Chinese characters in Pinyin.
  • Speak a standard Chinese pronunciation and lay a solid pronunciation foundation with Pinyin
  • Tips, tricks & drills to master tone pronunciation

Course content

8 sections • 81 lectures • 2h 43m total length

  • Introduction to Chinese2:09

    Chinese: Origins & Usage

    Yiyi gives a brief introduction about the Chinese language. What are the languages and dialects of China? What is Chinese Mandarin?

  • Chinese Characters & Pinyin (Speaking Chinese is Easy!)1:25

    Simple Explanation of the Basics of Chinese Language. 

    What are Chinese Characters and Pinyin?

  • Introduction to Pinyin3:38

    What Is Pinyin? What Are It's Components?

    Yiyi talks about the Pinyin system and explains what are initials, finals and tones in Chinese Mandarin. Learn all about the initials, finals and the 5 tones to understand the Pinyin system.

    Single Finals are also popularly called Simple Finals or Single vowel finals. In this course Yiyi will be using both interchangeably. In external, offline and online, resources you may come across either of the two when learning about Pinyin.

  • Intoduction to Pinyin : Tones4:47

    Yiyi explains the 5 tones which will help you understand and speak Chinese Mandarin.

  • Quiz 1

Requirements

  • No previous knowledge is required.
  • Everything you'll need to learn is right here in this course.
  • Remember - Practice Makes Perfect.

Description

This course provides everything about Pinyin, from Initials, Finals, Tones to tongue twisters and pronunciation tips. It helps you develop the skills to understand and speak Pinyin easily and set up a solid foundation for your future Chinese study.


What is Pinyin?

Pinyin is the representation of Chinese character and sounds with Roman Alphabet. Pinyin is an essential for learning how to speak, translate or type Mandarin. This course will create a strong foundation of Pinyin, that will help you easily learn more advanced words and sentences.


Why learn Pinyin now?


  • Pinyin makes it easy to translate Chinese characters into English words.

  • Speak Mandarin easier and faster than memorizing characters.

  • Pronounce Chinese tones with accuracy (and confidence!)

  • Teaches you the basics of conversational skills & most importantly gives you confidence!


Our course is carefully designed, planned and taught to help students engage, learn and practice and most importantly speak Chinese.  Structured design means less wasted time, more engagement, faster uptake, and better results.

You will learn the tones, consonants, and vowels (Initials and Finals) and sentence intonation of the Chinese Language step by step. You will understand tone pairs and rules on how certain tones work with others in syllables. You will find some tongue twisters for fun practice.

If you are a Beginner, speaking is essential and the sooner you start to practice pronunciation and learn the correct sounds and tones, the better.

Who this course is for:

  • Any English speaker who wants to learn Mandarin Chinese
  • Beginners or any Chinese learners who would like to have a clear and easy to understand speaking skill and good listening skills

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