Learn Mandarin Chinese Through Interesting Stories -HSK3

Learn to ask for directions to the subway station, use polite expressions when speaking to strangers, and navigate with landmarks and road terms in Mandarin.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 地, whose original meaning is the ground. The left half represents ground, the right half a snake, and it is pronounced dee dee.

Explore the Chinese character 场: its origin as flat ground for worship, its extension to flat open land, and its pronunciation xiang xiang xiang mo.

Learn mandarin through a story about a little girl by a window, with key words like window, look, and see, and grammar on bar constructions and zhong plus verb.

Explore the Chinese character哭 through a visual story of a man between two mouths, illustrating crying, and learn its meaning for the HSK3 Mandarin course.

Draw the Chinese character 望, whose original meaning is to look into the distance, and understand its connection to looking far away.

Explore whether beer is liquor through a humorous Mandarin story featuring a police check, drinking questions, and key terms like beer, liquor, and jing cha.

Explore how the character 味 conveys taste through a mouth-related left half and a right half meaning subtle, showing how the mouth can subtly distinguish taste.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 走, where the upper part suggests a person running and a single foot indicates walking; this is pronounced so and means to walk.

Follow a doctor and a fisherman as they discuss life, philosophy, and science to learn Mandarin through a story-driven dialogue for HSK3 learners.

Draw the Chinese character 渔 and learn its meaning of fishing through interesting stories from the course. The original meaning is fishing, and it is pronounced you.

Analyze how 船 combines a left-side boat with a right-side meaning of follow to depict traveling along a waterway, and note its pronunciation that 船 means boat.

Explore Mandarin through a lively story about hot pot, learning phrases for I, love, eat, what to eat, time, and how events unfold together, including flavor and dish preferences.

Explore the Chinese character 道, where the outer side means road and the middle means leader, revealing its guidance-related origin and its pronunciation tied to road, way, and taste.

Draw the Chinese character 火, which resembles fire, and learn that it is pronounced hua and means fire, with hot pot as context.

The lecture narrates good news versus bad news through a test score story, illustrating Chinese sentence structure and the rule of placing time and place before the main verb.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 及, explore its original meaning to catch up, and note pronunciation guidance along with the term bujega meaning to fail.

Investigate the character 交 by examining its glyph, shaped like crossed legs, and its original meaning to cross or be stuck, pronounced gyo.

Watch a story about a camel that escaped from the Jiangsu province zoo, and learn basic animal vocabulary and actions like walking, feeding, and returning the camel to the zoo.

Draw the Chinese character 安 and explore its meaning of stability, comfort, and safety, as a peaceful scene hints at its pronunciation 'un'.

Explore how the character 赶 originated as run, shows a person walking on land under the sun, and now also carries expulsion, pronounced gan gan, drive away.

Follow a boxer's restaurant misstep as a coat disappears and a lesson unfolds on passive voice, strengths, and weaknesses, framed by han zhong yao.

Learn the Chinese character 挂, meaning to hang, with the pronunciation gua. Discover how ancient ceremonies used a red jade harp to symbolize high placement and hanging.

Discover the Chinese character 动, meaning to move and to lift with force, its pronunciation dong, and its original sense of moving, with notes on exercise.

In story nine, brady's cup, learners practice chinese sentence order, interrogatives, and the ba construction while exploring cup, water, milk, and related vocabulary.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 装 by linking its lower bag-like part with clothing and its upper part indicating volume. The caption notes the pronunciation chuan, meaning to fill.

Learn how the Chinese character 富 conveys wealth and richness, with its pronunciation fu, and explore how this symbol relates to life and prosperity.

Learn how to say and give a gift in Mandarin through the story '送礼物', including giving a clock to a friend and related phrases about care and friendship.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 帽, which depicts a hat above the eye, and note that hats cover the head, even on items like pen caps.

Draw the simplified Chinese character 伞, illustrating the open surface, bracket, and handle. Learn its pronunciation sun yi and see the umbrella as equipment to protect from rain and sun.

Explore the story '快乐' to see how young people pursue happiness in everyday life. Learn Mandarin grammar and vocabulary, including sentence structure, time placement, and expressions for seeking happiness.

Learn how to draw the Chinese character 烦, tracing its meaning from fever and headache to distress and impatience, with the pronunciation noted as fun and its meaning as annoyance.

Explore the Chinese character 恼, meaning upset and headache, with its original sense of boredom and its current pronunciation, as part of learning Mandarin through interesting stories for HSK3.

Follow Zoey’s drunken story as she learns Chinese vocabulary for drinking, finishing meals, and family roles with Fujin (dad) and Yuasa (son), including conversations about policemen.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 醉 by using the left part resembling wine and the right part signaling exhaustion, with the pronunciation sui and the meaning to get drunk.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 瞧, pronounced xiao, and connect its eye-centered imagery to the meaning 'to see' and the idea of looking to avoid burning food.

Explore the story 二十年后 to see how time and reasons precede the main verb in Chinese, illustrated by a mom’s anger over homework and the family’s future expectations.

Explore the Chinese character 到, tracing its etymology from the arrival of the arrow plus men to its meaning arrive, and learn its pronunciation as dow, Tao.

Explore the Chinese character '却' by its left valley and right kneeling figure, signaling surrender and retreat when facing difficulties; the caption notes its pronunciation.

Explore how auspicious numbers shape Chinese culture, noting how even and odd numbers influence choices for room, phone, and license plate numbers, with popular digits like eight signifying luck.

Explore the Chinese character 肯, revealing its origin tied to the flesh attached to the bone and its pronunciation linked to cousin, which means affirmation.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 定 by combining the upper house with the lower square and stable, linking its shape to cessation, decision, and regulation, pronounced ding kun ding.

Explore talking about buying a car in Chinese, with numbers, yuan, and measure words, through a story about a man and a beggar bargaining for a car.

It shows how 车 evolved from a two-wheel carriage to a simplified one, and teaches its pronunciation and related terms, including 'Choo' for car and 'Xinkai' for bike.

Explore how the character 金 originated as a generic term for metal and a crucible signifying smelting, with later usage referring to gold, pronounced chin.

Discover yuan fen, predestination, and how opportunities shape two Chengdu residents who meet early, marry after years, and later travel to Qingdao together.

Learn to draw the Chinese character 岛, pronounce dao, and understand its meaning as island—the land surrounded by water.

Discover how a farmer uncovers cotton theft, identifies Xiaotao as the thief, invites neighbors to a dance party, and previews how Mike catches him in the next lesson.

In story18智捉小偷2, mike invites neighbors to a dance party, finds the thief among the crowd, and uses Mandarin vocabulary about face and cotton stains to reveal him.

Learn the Chinese character fu, pronounced fu, which depicts an upright man with a hairpin and signifies a husband; understand how the character represents adulthood and marriage in hanzi.

Explore the Chinese character 摸 through a story-driven lesson that links touch and stroke with the meaning to find or seek, helping learners grasp authentic Mandarin writing and pronunciation.