These are podcasts from chinesepod.com listed here for easy reference. At the Upper Intermediate stage your Chinese is quite functional, but you’re still pushing for more specialized vocabulary and ways to sophisticate your language. Hosts Jenny and John guide learners through a variety of higher level topics, speaking mainly in Chinese but shifting back to […]
These are podcasts from chinesepod.com listed here for easy reference. As an Intermediate learner you can follow a Chinese conversation, but still want to work on broadening vocabulary and picking up more key patterns. Jenny and John host these lessons, and Jenny speaks almost entirely in Chinese. John offers key explanations in English. Intermediate podcasts […]
These are podcasts from chinesepod.com listed here for easy reference. Once you’re no longer a Newbie, you’re ready for Elementary level’s longer utterances, elements of grammar, and a wider range of everyday applications for your Chinese. Hosts Ken and Jenny give a thorough treatment of lesson content, including individual tones. More Chinese is used than […]
These are podcasts from chinesepod.com listed here for easy reference. If you’re brand new to Chinese, this level is for you. In the Newbie podcasts your hosts Ken and Jenny focus on the most useful phrases for practical situations. The lessons are mainly in English, and when Jenny introduces Chinese words she speaks slowly and […]
Chinese MP3 Lessons for Newbies
These are podcasts from chinesepod.com listed here for easy reference. If you’re brand new to Chinese, this level is for you. In the Newbie podcasts your hosts Ken and Jenny focus on the most useful phrases for practical situations. The lessons are mainly in English, and when Jenny introduces Chinese words […]
Yajie: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the first Chinese Studio of the new week 欢乐汉语. I’m Yajie.
Allen: And I’m Allen. This week, we’ll be learning useful sentence structures for asking questions. For example, today we’ll be learning how to ask if someone has a certain profession.
Y: Yes. Remember, Allen, when you saw my friend and started […]
Intended for English-speaking learners, these Chinese materials are designed to develop the learners’ ability to listen, speak, read and write, as well as the ability to communicate in social settings. Volume One and Two are focused on Chinese living habits and culture while Volume Three and Four are focused on the hotspots in China’s contemporary […]
Strokes are combined together according to a few fixed rules (and to several exceptions!). Learn these rules, because they’re of great help for memorizing characters. They are also fundamental in case you need to recognize the first stroke of a character, but we’ll talk about that again.
1. Strokes at the top before those at the […]
Far from being complicated drawings, Chinese characters are made out of simple single strokes, all of them variations of only eight basic ones. All strokes have their own name and are written according to a few rules. It’s very important to learn to recognize them, since the number of strokes in a character is often […]
The origin of Chinese writing is commonly placed around the XIV century b.C., around 3400 years ago. The first real “characters” are those found on the bones used for divination under the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which form the so-called jiagu wen ( ). On the right, an example of oracular inscription on ox […]
