After the “What Can You Do” lesson, you will know: 1. How to say “Can you + ability” in Chinese. Ask your friends if they can “teach” you something or “learn” something from you. Degree compliment – How to use the word to modify a verb. How to say “How is it” in Mandarin.
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Top 5 Recommended Books for Chinese Beginners
posted at 2011-06-21 01:25 Dan

For Chinese beginners, a good text book can be as important as a good teacher. From a good text book about Chinese learning, the Chinese beginners can not only learn Chinese in a more exact way, but also learn Chinese in a more effective way. The following 5 books are very popular among Chinese beginners.

Designed for Chinese beginners, this book includes all the basic words of Chinese language and various simple patterns of sentence. All the basic knowledge of Chinese are described clearly in pinyin. By using this book, the learners can improve their ability of spoken Chinese quickly.

The main purpose of this book is to help the learners tolearn Chinese through grammar and culture. It contains 40 lessons, in each lesson the reader will find a lively and authentic dialogue that includes the most common and useful expressions for daily conversation.

From the title of this book, you may have guessed that it will be a book which can be helpful for you practice of spoken Chinese. Based on such purpose, this book will help learners to learn to speak Chinese in a short time. All the sentences and dialogues in it are simple, but they will be useful for your life in China.

Reading and Writing Chinese: A Guide to the Chinese Writing System

Containing about 4500 characters, this book can be the best choice for Chinese beginners who want to learn Chinese characters. With exact pronunciation, lively definition and derivation, it will make the process of characters learning more interesting and easier.

It is a good reference book for beginners. It contains about 5,000 characters, with which the beginners can use in their daily communication. It also offers exact pronunciation and definition of each word. It is also convenient for learners to bring it with themselves.

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What’s the Best Way to Start Learning Chinese?

Step 1: Determine if Learning Mandarin Chinese is Right for You

Let’s face it, learning Chinese is not for everybody and it requires investing lots of precious time to become good at it.

To help you learn for yourself whether you are willing to invest your own time into learning the language, try taking a free online class with Tutor Mandarin and eChineseLearning.

With these free classes, you will get a first hand look at what to expect when learning Mandarin Chinese under the instruction of a native speaker.

Step 2: Find Some Chinese Learning Materials

Fulfilling your personal goals in learning Chinese will require much more than taking a course in Chinese. That’s why I have compiled a list of my favorite resources, textbooks, and tools for you to check out here.

I’ve included resources to help you develop your listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Most of them you can try free and I’ve even managed to negotiate a discount for you on others.

Step 3: Learn Pinyin

After arming yourself with some essential resources, learn to pronounce words properly in Chinese. I’m sure you’ve encountered many words and names like Xi’an or Qin Shihuang and have no idea how they are pronounced.

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The secret to pronouncing Chinese words, and reading Chinese characters for that matter, is to start by learning pinyin.

Pinyin is the most commonly used system for writing Chinese using roman letters. For example, 我是中国人 in pinyin is wŏ shì zhōngguó rén. Each character in Chinese represents one syllable and can be spelled out phonetically in pinyin.

One thing to be aware of when learning pinyin is that it is not pronounced exactly like we would read it in English. For example, ‘shi’ is NOT pronounced like ‘she’ and instead sounds like ‘sure’.

The good news is there are plenty of videos on YouTube along with great apps to teach you pinyin. You can also have a look at this online pinyin table with audio (which you can download).

Step 4: Start Speaking in Chinese

To help you nail down pinyin and proper pronunciation in Mandarin, try speaking with a native speaker. Native speakers will ensure you are pronouncing words correctly and help you transition from saying simple words and phrases to having basic conversations.

That is why I always encourage folks wanting to learn Chinese to sign-up for a class. Look into what Chinese courses are available in your nearby area or consider one-on-one classes with a personal Chinese tutor online.

Step 5: Start listening to Chinese During Your Commute

It’s also important to start listening to Chinese as much as possible. We learned our native language through listening and you should apply the same strategy to learn Mandarin Chinese.

Improving your listening is a skill that won’t happen overnight and takes considerable time. Luckily it is something we can do both actively and passively.

To start building listening comprehension, try ChinesePod, as they have over 400 lessons for newbies that you can download onto your phone and listen to on your way to school, work, or hang out with friends.

Step 6: Get Your Head Around Chinese Tones

You may have heard that Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language. As Mandarin has significantly fewer sounds than English, tones are essential to convey different ideas with the same syllabic sound. Don’t listen to any learners who claim that tones do not matter. Having lived in China for five years, I can assure you that speaking in proper tones is essential!

Chinese people simply won’t understand you if you don’t learn tones or get them wrong too much while speaking Mandarin Chinese. Using the wrong tones in your spoken Chinese is similar to putting the emphasis on the wrong syllables in English.

Like all skills, speaking with tones comes with proper practice and listening carefully to native speakers and listening exercises. To get started on learning Chinese tones, check out my beginners guide to tones here.

Step 7: Start learning Chinese Characters

I suggest beginning to learn characters once you are confident you have Chinese basics like pinyin down.

Once you start learning characters, start with the goal of understanding how Chinese characters work as a system rather than rote memorization. Check out my guide to learning characters and Chinese vocabulary as a starting point.

Once you have a good system of learning Chinese characters in place, you will want to start reading to solidify words you have learned and further expand your vocabulary.

Step 8: Mimic Native Chinese Speakers

When learning a language, you need to mimic the way native speakers and the way they speak.

A good technique for pronunciation and speaking practice is to play an individual recorded sentence and then try to repeat it yourself.

Try recording yourself on your phone and compare how you so