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Mandarin Speaking Part 1 (The Logical Way)
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Mandarin Speaking Part 1 (The Logical Way)

This course will focus on the basic ability of Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking.
Created byLogical Way
Last updated 12/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Introduction to Mandarin Chinese
  • Four tones + one tone
  • Pinyin mapped to English
  • Sentence structure & word orders
  • Words & the forms
  • Grammar in use
  • Starting from “Hello.”

Course content

1 section7 lectures57m total length
  • Introduction17:36
  • 2 Hello.3:27
  • 3 Four tones + one tone11:16

    Explore how four tones plus a neutral tone shape Mandarin pronunciation, with English stress comparisons and examples like ma to convey different meanings.

  • 4 I’m a worker.9:26
  • 5 “and” to connect two pronouns or nouns4:30
  • 6 We are all workers.8:09

    Learn to say we are all workers in Mandarin, mastering pronoun plurality, correct pronunciation of key terms, and placing adverbs before the verb for natural grammar.

  • 7 “but” to indicate a different or opposite case3:03

Requirements

  • The learners speaking English.

Description

This course will focus on the basic ability of Mandarin Chinese listening and speaking.

There is no Chinese writing in this course.


Target learners are as below:

Beginners starting from zero of Mandarin Chinese.

No requirements for age.

The learners speaking English.

The learners interested in Mandarin Chinese or Chinese culture.

The learners who would like to communicate with Chinese people for mutual learning, making friends or business.


Main contents are as below:

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese

Four tones + one tone

Pinyin mapped to English

Sentence structure & word orders

Words & the forms

Grammar in use

Starting from “Hello.”

“and” to connect two pronouns or nouns

“but” to indicate a different or opposite case

“not” to indicate a negative case

Yes or no questions

Wh-questions

Thank you & sorry

China & Chinese


Method of this course:

Using a natural way to learn Mandarin Chinese like a child.

Listening & speaking first (using Pinyin mapped to English).

Reading & writing second.


This course will work efficiently because of the reasons as below:

Systematic or logical (organized from easy to hard).

Topics and grammars are in use (saving time).

It starts with Pinyin only (for listening & speaking) rather than Chinese characters (for reading & writing) (easy and feasible way).

Pinyin is mapped to English pronunciations completely and correctly (easy for learning).

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners starting from zero of Mandarin Chinese.
  • No requirements for age.
  • The learners speaking English.
  • The learners interested in Mandarin Chinese or Chinese culture.
  • The learners who would like to communicate with Chinese people for mutual learning, making friends or business.