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Conversational Chinese for beginners

Conversational Chinese lessons for beginners

Course Summary

Conversational Chinese for beginners is designed for the beginners to improve their oral Chinese as well as writing and reading skills. It consists of two parts: highly useful conversational Chinese at the beginning of each class; basic written Chinese which emphasizes the basic strokes and rules of thumb for writing the Chinese simplified characters. You will learn about hundreds of single and compound characters, focusing on writing methods and composition structure.

Objectives:Conversational Chinese lessons for beginners

  • Learn the basic strokes and rules of thumb for writing Chinese characters;
  • Learn the common radicals of Chinese characters;
  • Learn the basic foundation blocks of Chinese characters.
  • Learn the basic words and expressions.

Course structure:

  • 20 lessons;
  • Total length: Approximately 20 hours;
  • 20 sets of relevant exercises and hundreds of characters;
  • Dialogue about daily life in China.

Useful Tips:

  • You can always learn basic Chinese writing on your own by visiting our award-winning Character Trace-Over™ tool absolutely FREE of charge. There are over 3000 basic Chinese characters for you to try, why not have a go!

Suggestions for learning:

  • Interact with the teacher to practice the dialogue and character in the class;
  • Practice the basic strokes of simplified characters;
  • Remember the language highlight and sentence structure by doing exercises;
  • Review the lessons by watching the playback;
  • Using tablet to practice Chinese character.

Lesson description

Lesson 1: Learn simple dialogues and expressions about how to say hello and introduce oneself in Chinese. The basic strokes: 横horizontal stroke, 竖vertical stroke, 撇left-falling stroke, 捺right-falling stroke.

Lesson 2: Learn simple dialogues and expressions about introducing oneself and other.

Lesson 3: Learn simple dialogue and basic expressions about Chinese figures. The use of “几”, “多少”, “一共” in sentence patterns.

Lesson 4: Learn simple dialogue and basic expressions about Chinese figures. The use of “哦” and “呢” in sentence patterns.

Lesson 5: Learn simple dialogues concerning “what is this”, attributive representing genitive case, and “是” sentence pattern.

Lesson 6: Review lesson 1 through 5, the positions of adverbs “还”, “都”, “也”, and adjective finite sentence, etc.

Lesson 7: Learn simple dialogue and basic expressions about Date. How to say year, month and day in Chinese.

Lesson 8: Learn simple dialogue and basic expressions about time. The use of “真” and “吧” in sentence patterns.

Lesson 9: Learn basic dialogues and expressions about positions including “请问”, prep. “从”, “离”, “往”, etc.

Lesson 10: Learn basic dialogues and expressions about purchasing, including the pronunciation of RMB, the use of “二” and “两”.

Prices

  • For each live lesson can go as low as US$11/hour*
  • Enjoy 20% off when you purchase the entire course

Registered users can also "Payback" your lesson after each class.


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Chinese Character Lesson 1

 

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