Daily Chinese Complete Course

Join my course and learn 90% of daily spoken Chinese! I taught this course to hundreds of my students between Feb and June 2020, in Shanghai, China, and it was a big success! I am sharing such a beautiful experience here on Udemy for you to improve your Chinese fast and easy too.

This is not a traditional course. It is informative and focuses on what you need, on the language that I speak on a daily basis as a Chinese native speaker.

• Who is your instructor:

Your instructor in this course is me: Lin Yan, a Chinese native speaker, an experienced copywriter and teacher, and the co-founder of Tingdong E-learning.

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• About me:

I am originally from Guangdong province 广东省 Guǎngdōng Shěng (formerly Canton), a coastal province of southeast China, borders Hong Kong and Macau. Its capital is Guangzhou. I have been living in Shanghai for ten years. Throughout my career life I have developed my own work style based on my principles of value and simplicity. I hope this is what you will feel while taking my course. All the time, you will find me on your side till you achieve your goal of speaking Chinese.

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• What is in the course?

1. Videos are the main content of the course. At the time being, there are 99 video lectures.

2. Every lecture has a PDF file attachment. It includes all the lecture notes in Chinese, Pinyin , English + Exercise. Organized in order from the beginning of the lecture to the end!

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Being a copywriter helps me know how important the language is to convey not just Information but also the mutual understanding between language speakers. This specific course is designed to teach you what Chinese people truly use in daily life.

Ideas are broken down into logical blocks to Improve your Chinese on a solid foundation.

You will know how to speak Chinese at the:

• Restaurant 餐厅

• Coffee shop 咖啡店

• Supermarket 超市

• Pharmacy 药店

• Hospital 医院

• Barbershop 理发店 ... etc.

And when you take a :

• Taxi 出租车

• Subway 地铁

• Bus 公共汽车

• Train 火车

• Plane 飞机

That is just the beginning, the course at this moment includes 99 lectures, and the examples above cover only the first 12 lectures!

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"I welcome you to my Chinese course at which you will be learning the language the way you can immediately practice in your daily life."

____ Lin Yan

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Every lesson covers a single idea, situation, or place. Briefly, you will learn to:

• Speak in a coffee shop, restaurant, hotel, pharmacy, hospital, barbershop, subway station, taxi, bus, airport, and train station.

• Book a table in the restaurant, a room in the hotel, rent a flat, open and close a bank account, send and receive money, and send and collect an express package.

• Speak about the weather, sport, picnic, travel, family, work, introduce yourself or someone, buy clothes and go to the supermarket.

• Describe things and places, size weight, volume, content, quantity, and price. as well as describing people's appearance and character, likes, and dislikes.

• Speak about your emotion, angry, happy, sad, shy, easy-going, patient, annoyed, tired of, and how to show sympathy and sorrow for someone or about something.

• Arrange an appointment, a place and time of the meeting, change or cancel the appointment, give an excuse, give a suggestion, and reply to a suggestion.

• Choose a restaurant, complain about a restaurant, order flowers, repair broken things, and deposIt stuff.

• Speak about eating habits, personal interests, Online shopping, going to a concert, going to the gym, learning yoga, daily habits, catching a cold, and going out.

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Taking my course is exactly the right decision to improve your Chinese up to 90% of daily spoken Chinese. Let's take a quick glance at what you are going to learn throughout the course:

• Lesson (1) 预订饭店 Book a restaurant: Book a table or room in the restaurant, determine the table size, fix the time, and choose the table location.

• Lesson (2) 在餐厅 At the restaurant: The food and drinks menu, ask about the popular dishes, say what you eat and don't eat, express how many you want of the same type, order the same dish or drink again, and pay the bill

• Lesson (3) 在咖啡店 At the coffee shop：Learn the Chinese names of popular coffee types, say what you want to drink, how many cups, what cup size, ask for sugar bag, creamer, straw, mixing stick .. etc, talk about sugar quantity and ask and answer related questions.

• Lesson (4) 在烘焙店 At the bakery shop：Several ways to say bakery shop in Chinese, and more vocabulary belongs to the bakery shop, ask where is, which one is ...? and what is in/on/inside ...? And about different types of cakes and their sizes.

• Lesson (5) 在超市 At the supermarket: Speak about imported and domestic products, vegetables and fruits, weight and price, and at the cashier desk.

• Lesson (6) 在药店 At the pharmacy：prescription and non-prescription drugs, how you feel, what you want to buy, which one is better, how many times to take the medicine and in relation to the daily meals.

• Lesson (7) 在医院 At the hospital ：The preview station, which floor, the clinic, see the doctor, do different tests, take the report, know how to take the medicine, and buy the medicine from the hospital pharmacy at the right window number.

• Lesson (8) 购物 Shopping：Shopping for clothes and shoes, talk about color and size, and ask for smaller or bigger sizes.

• Lesson (9) 理发店 Barbershop: Several ways to say barbershop in Chinese, shorten hair, cut the bangs, trim tails, dye hair,  get hair curled, and ask about the price.

• Lesson (10) 电影院 The cinema: movie types, choose the movie, buy movie tickets, choose the seat and row number, the projection room, buy popcorn, potato chips, ice cream, cola, water, and talk about size.

• Lesson (11A) 公共汽车 Bus: take a bus, on the bus, bus number, at the bus station, the nearest station. Ask where and which and give the answers.

• Lesson (11B) 地铁 Subway: take the subway, on the subway, subway lines, exchange lines. Ask where, which, how far, and how many.

• Lesson (12) 出租车 Taxi: Where you want to go, the name of the place, the intersection, or the street and number, give directions, say where to get off.

• Lesson (13) 火车站 Train station: Buy a ticket, how many, to where, what time, at the station, security check, waiting hall, ticket gate, change ticket gates, carriage and seat.

• Lesson (14) 飞机场 Airport: Airport, terminal number, flight, flight number, which flight, plane, where, take off, land, departure hall, boarding pass, check-in counter, check-in luggage, security check, and boarding gate number.

• Lesson (15) 预订酒店 book a hotel: Book a room, how many, when, how long, the kind of room, how much, with and without breakfast.

• Lesson (16) 在酒店 At the hotel: Ask for a room, available rooms, deposit, room rate, sending the baggage to the room, food, changing rooms, and check out.

• Lesson (17) 租房子 Rent a flat: At the agency, flat type, size, how many residents, requirements, location, sign the contract, the deposit, and payment method.

• Lesson (18) 打电话 Make a call: Phone types, make a call, receive a call, say sorry, hang up the phone, ask for the phone number.

• Lesson (19) 给某人打电话 Give someone a call: look for someone, call back later, call back in one hour, leave a message, make a wrong call, busy line, bad signal, the phone is about to power off.

• Lesson (20) 在银行-1 At the bank: open a bank account, saving account, deposit account, fill in forms, interest rate, deposit money, withdraw money, account balance.

• Lesson (21) 在银行-2 At the bank: money transfer, western union service, bank names, send or receive? Have a bank account? Wanted documents, remitter and payee, close a bank account, ATM machine, transfer and deposit money, card swallowed.

• Lesson (22) 接某人 Pick up someone：At the airport, train station, at school, parents home, offer a pickup, arriving soon.

• Lesson (23) 和某人见面 Meet someone：when, subway, will get late, by taxi, Ask for a call upon arrival, plan for the weekend, find each other

• Lesson (24) 国际快递 International delivery express：A package or document, What is the package? Where to send? Size and weight, packing info., delivery time, pickup.

• Lesson (25) 国内快递 Local delivery express：examples of popular local delivery companies in China, package info, price, contact info, changing contact info, receiving kuaidi different scenarios.

• Lesson (26) 尺寸和重量-1 Size and weight：size and weight units, examples for lengths, width, height, and thickness.

• Lesson (27) 尺寸和重量-2: Size and weight: Square meter, compare sizes, ask about size, cubic meter (CBM), ask about price per size, weight (pound, and kilo), and body weight.

• Lesson (28) 衣服 Clothes: names of different clothes, talk about clothes, like and dislike, give an opinion, and talk about size.

• Lesson (29) 食物 Food: Meals of the day, have you eaten? What did you eat? What to eat? I want ..., I don't know what to ..., I don't eat ..., Don't eat ..., this dish is ..., today's ... is ..., I like, I don't like ..., do you think ...? I think ..., let's go for ..., I haven't eaten ..., Do you want ...? I just want...

• Lesson (30) 自我介绍 Introduce myself: Introduce yourself opening statement, name, country, nationality, city, job, likes, and answer to the introduction.

• Lesson (31) 介绍某人 Introduce someone: Casual and formal, relationship, and more details.

• Lesson (32) 邀请 Invitation: Invite to home, birthday party, outside, accept and refuse.

• Lesson (33) 取消约会 Cancel an appointment：Apologize and why, reply to apology，change the time and give a reply, get late, arrive.

• Lesson (34) 支付 Do payment：Wechat, Alipay, cash, bank card, ask how to pay, payment methods you can, accept, cannot accept.

• Lesson (35) 天气 weather：talk about the weather, ask about the weather, examples for sunny, rainy, cloudy, and snowy.

• Lesson (36) 季节 Seasons：different ways to say the seasons in Chinese, ask about seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

• Lesson (37) 野餐 Picnic：Prepare for a picnic, ride a bicycle, sleep on the grass, fishing, tie the tent, have a walk, and go boating, clean up.

• Lesson (38) 运动 Sports：Do sports? What type? Running, basketball, walking, how good? Tennis, swimming.

• Lesson (39) 爬山 Mountain climbing：Planning, preparing, water, food, and a raincoat, how many people, how to go, mountain height, while climbing, about to reach the top, a good idea!

• Lesson (40) 旅游 Travelling：When? Where? Visas and passport, passport application time, visa application, with a tour group? Flight price, how long, weather.

• Lesson (41) 打扫 Cleaning：the ground, the whole house, wash clothes, wash dishes, and clean the bathroom.

• Lesson (42) 做饭 Cooking：cooking or asking a takeout? What to eat? How good at cooking? and like or dislike cooking.

• Lesson (43) The bills：Electricity bill, water bill, gas bill, internet bill, about the bills, how to pay, payment time, winter and summer, forgot to pay! Electricity and water meters.

• Lesson (45) 描述某人外貌 Describe someone's appearance：Hair color, hairstyle, face shape, eyes and eyelids, nose, lips, describe Lily's appearance.

• Lesson (46) 描述某人形象 Describe someone's image：Height, weight, age, and dressing.

• Lesson (47) 描述某人性格 Describe someone's character：Easy-going, patient, optimistic, lively, shy, and talkative.

• Lesson (48) 描述近况 Describe recent development：Doing great, not very good, better than before, Opened a small supermarket.

• Lesson (49) 家人 Family：Parents, siblings, marriage, and children.

• Lesson (50) 工作 Job：Look for a job, what kind of job, what is your job? Do you like your job? Change jobs.

• Lesson (51) 情绪 Emotion：Happy and dissatisfied.

• Lesson (52) 愤怒和好奇 Anger and curious：I am angry, Someone else is angry, disappointed, and curious.

• Lesson (53) 同情，担心， 和害怕 Sympathy, worry, and fear：Sympathy, worry, fear, hair stand on end, shake with fear, scared to death.

• Lesson (54) 厌烦和喜欢 Tired of and like：Tired of something, tired of someone, like, and dislike.

• Lesson (55) 谢意 Thank：Thank you, Thanks for someone's concern, reply.

• Lesson (56) 道歉 Apology：Sorry to someone, sorry for something, reply.

• Lesson (57) 询问 Ask：Inquire, agree, disagree.

As you have arrived here, this is the right time to hit the enroll-in button and tackle down your Chinese learning plan now! I am adding new video lessons to the course on a regular basis. You can think about this course as an endless source of Chinese learning. For example, yesterday I uploaded 20 new lectures at the end of the course!

See you in the course!