Learn Chinese Language: Everyday & Business Chinese BEGINNER

Master everyday Mandarin greetings by time of day and formality, including ni hao and nin hao, and learn how to say pleased to meet you to a group.

Learn to greet in Chinese and ask 'how are you?' using ni hao and ni hao ma, with guidance on pronouncing ma lightly to avoid an embarrassing moment.

Master how to greet people by professional titles such as doctor, professor, teacher, supervisor, and manager in everyday and business Chinese, with careful pronunciation and tone to avoid miscommunication.

Learn how to address people in Chinese by using formal, family, and career titles, practice greetings with Mr., Ms., Mrs., and the surname, and avoid shouting.

Learn to greet others in Chinese using community titles like uncle and auntie, big brother and sister, and practice ni hao salutations with surnames such as Liu and Zhang Yi.

Learn everyday and business Chinese vocabulary for professions, including accountant, architect, artist, engineer, chef, driver, farmer, fireman, lecturer, musician, nurse, pilot, police, postman, professor, sailor, scientist, security, waiter, and more.

Learn to construct Mandarin sentences to introduce yourself by profession, saying 'I am a doctor,' 'he is a doctor,' and 'they are engineers' with consistent pronunciation.

Translate English job titles into Chinese and practice key professions, such as businessman, engineer, accountant, police, and waiter, during an assessment.

Learn Mandarin pronouns, including I, you, he, she, and it, and use the plural marker men to form we, you all, and they, with notes on gendered group writing.

Engage in a pronouns assessment that tests vocabulary through multiple-choice questions, choosing the correct forms for I vs me, she, he, them, and we vs us.

Learn the basics of Chinese numbers from 0 to 10 and practice counting from zero to ten with clear pronunciation.

Explore the Mandarin numbers 11–19 for beginners by applying the ten plus pattern, from eleven to nineteen, with practice on pronouncing ten plus digits and recognizing the sequence.

Learn how Mandarin numbers from 20 to 100 are formed using ten as the base, with patterns like two times ten for 20 and 30 to 90 and 100.

Learn to form numbers 21–99 in Mandarin by reading tens and units, using the base-ten structure, and practice reading examples from 21 through 50.

Learn to read and construct numbers in Mandarin from 100 upward by mastering the Chinese counting units and powers of ten, especially ten thousand, and compare with English decimal groupings.

Learn rules of zero in Chinese numbers. Read numbers as they are, end at the last nonzero digit, and use ling once when multiple zeros occur, as in 10,005.

Learn to tell dates in Mandarin Chinese by saying the year, then the month, then the day, reading numbers as written and noting double-digit versus single-digit days.

Learn to tell minutes in Mandarin Chinese using digital time. Read times like 12:10 and 5:10, omitting the minutes word and adding zero for single-digit minutes.

Learn to tell time in Chinese by practicing numbers 1 to 12 and saying hours on the dot with o'clock, including liang din zhong for 2:00 and tone changes.

Learn to express minutes and seconds in Mandarin Chinese, with practice on time expressions and numbers, including common phrases like 12:00 and 4 p.m.

Learn to say the days of the week in Chinese by numbering from day one to day six; Sunday has a name such as sing cheatin or sing te syncytin.

Discover how months are expressed in Chinese by numbering rather than names, and learn lunar calendar festivals like Chinese New Year, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi, and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Master Chinese parts of the day by naming morning, midday, afternoon, evening, and night, with time examples like 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Learn to talk about yesterday, today, and tomorrow in Chinese, including how to ask for the date and identify days like Sunday with practical date examples.

Learn to tell time in Mandarin using quarter past, half past, and quarter to, using the previous hour plus three quarters with example times like 1:15 and quarter to two.

Practice Chinese date terminology through a series of multiple-choice questions that test days of the week, today, yesterday, next week, and date expressions.

Learn a simple mandarin food ordering dialogue using a question-and-answer style. Practice saying what you would like to eat, I would like to eat, and how to say that one.

Learn basic Chinese phrases for ordering drinks in a simple question-and-answer conversation, including what would you like to drink and I would like to drink green tea or coffee.

Learn essential mandarin daily activity vocabulary with pronunciation tips and sentence construction, covering eating, drinking water, going to work, reading, showering, sleeping, and other everyday actions.

Learn the subject–verb structure used in everyday Chinese, with examples like I am writing, I am dancing, I am drinking water, and I am taking a photo, plus negative forms.

Complete an everyday activities assessment in beginner Chinese, with questions on sleep, going to work, singing or watching a movie, smoking, and surfing the internet or taking a photo.

Learn everyday Chinese vocabulary for stores and buildings, including airport, bank, cinema, hospital, library, office building, post office, police station, restaurant, subway station, supermarket, hotel, university, and more.

Learn how to form Mandarin sentences to say I want to go to a store or building, with subject changes and the nearest-location question for places.

Practice vocabulary for stores and buildings through a timed assessment with multiple choice questions, identifying correct terms for hospital, hotel, factory, library, and restaurant.

Learn to express emotions in Mandarin Chinese, practice asking how you are and what's going on, and use basic emotional vocabulary like happy, sad, nervous, and surprised.

Learn to talk about emotions in Chinese with sentence-level structures, describing happiness, annoyance, and depression, using tone changes to convey nuance for individuals and groups.

Translate common emotion words from English to Chinese in an assessment, practicing happy, disappointed, angry, excited, and I am fine for beginner everyday and business Chinese.

Learn Chinese immediate family vocabulary by naming father, mother, elder and younger brothers and sisters, and practice basic pronunciation, including 'ma' for mother and how to address family members.

Explore basic Chinese terms for family members, including husband, wife, son, and daughter, and learn how to address family members in Chinese.

Explore Chinese kinship terms for cousins, distinguishing elder and younger relatives from paternal and maternal sides, noting surname differences and tone changes.

Explore my father's side of the family in Chinese, including grandfather, grandmother nai nai, elder and younger uncles papaw and suso, and my father's sister addressed as goo goo.

Learn Chinese family vocabulary by naming relatives on the mother's side, including grandfather, grandmother, mother's brothers and sisters, and how to address them with juju uncle and ye ye.

Learn how to refer to in-laws and grandchildren in Chinese, including terms for daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter when a child marries.

Translate and provide the correct term in Chinese for family relations such as husband, elder sister, grandfather, uncle, and daughter through an assessment.

Learn Chinese directions vocabulary, covering left, right, front, back, up, down, and middle, with simple memory aids and examples to build everyday navigation phrases.

Explore how to form simple Chinese directions with a three-word sentence pattern, using words for direction, front, and walk, to express go forward, turn left, or turn right.

Identify the directions of flashing lights in Chinese during an assessment, practicing left, right, front, back, and middle responses.

Learn essential Mandarin vocabulary for clothing and accessories, from yi wu yi fu to hats, shirts, jackets, and shoes, plus luggage terms and how to express ownership.

Learn to form basic shopping sentences in Mandarin, saying I want to buy items like clothes and jeans, using yao and measure words for quantities.

Explore Chinese measure words, especially the universal classifier ge for people or objects, and apply the tone-change rule when using yi. Practice with ren and liang in real examples.

This lecture covers Mandarin measure words for clothing, furniture, and luggage, focusing on the clothing classifier and how to count items like shirts, jeans, skirts, hats, and pairs of shoes.

Master the beginner Chinese vocabulary for asking how much is it, learn tone changes for the third tone, the general measure word ge, and money phrases.

Learn to ask for prices in Chinese at stores, using 'how much is this' and 'how much is that' to the boss, and build sentences to specify monetary value.

Learn the Mandarin Chinese color vocabulary, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, brown, gray, and pink.

Learn to ask for colors in Chinese using 'What colours does it come in?', point to 'this one', and note the Mandarin has or have usage 'yo'.

Explore how to describe clothing colors in Chinese, using red and black examples, identify color adjectives, the red in color usage, and appropriate measure words for tops, bottoms, and pairs.

Learn to express I want in Mandarin Chinese and build color-based phrases, such as I want one black colored jeans and two red colored shirts.

Learn to express size in Mandarin Chinese using essential vocabulary for size, big, small, and a little bit, with memory cues including body language to remember big.

Learn how to ask 'are there any' in Mandarin Chinese, using yǒu for have and méi yǒu for not have, with questions ending in ma.

Learn to say bigger and smaller sizes in Chinese, and use I want a bigger size or I want a smaller size in everyday and business Chinese.

Learn a new expression to say something is too big or too small in beginner Chinese, using gesture-based examples like pointing at items to express excess.

Learn how to ask where is the nearest ATM or bank in Mandarin Chinese, using the vocabulary for nearest and a simple location-question structure.

Learn to discuss payment methods in beginner Chinese, using card and cash vocabulary, the plural you form, and yes‑no questions with ma to ask about card or cash payments.

learn to compliment someone in mandarin by combining very with adjectives like beautiful and handsome, and practice sentences such as this is very beautiful and you are very handsome.

Learn to express liking and disliking in Mandarin, using phrases for I like this and I don't like this, and note the tone changes that clarify meaning.

Master using 是 for identity in Chinese to state names and occupations, with examples like I am Jocelyn and Karen is a teacher.

Explore svo and sbo sentence structures in Mandarin, with I eat rice and you drink tea, and note yao for wants, yo for one, and man for plural.

Master the simple Chinese this/that grammar by identifying objects like green tea and coffee, using 'this is' and pointing to the far object to answer what is that.

Explore the differences between 哪个, 哪儿, and 那, including how they express where and which one, and how rapid speech leads to abbreviated forms and varied pronunciation in everyday Chinese.