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Learning Mandarin Language for Beginners

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563 Lessons

If you’re just trying to learn some survival Chinese or looking to start a lifelong relationship with the language, here’s where to start.

  • Focus on pronunciation and basic words/phrases.
  • Mostly in English
  • Recommended: 50 lessons
19 Mar 2008
Where are you going?
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14 Mar 2008
Getting Nationalities Straight
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10 Mar 2008
How have you been?
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06 Mar 2008
Buying a Newspaper
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02 Mar 2008
Chinese Green Eggs and Ham
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26 Feb 2008
What's up?
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23 Feb 2008
Time for Class
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19 Feb 2008
Hot Soup
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16 Feb 2008
I Have Class
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11 Feb 2008
The Neutral Tone
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07 Feb 2008
The Fourth Tone
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03 Feb 2008
The Third Tone
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29 Jan 2008
The Second Tone
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23 Jan 2008
The First Tone
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19 Jan 2008
Is someone in here?
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14 Jan 2008
Bumming a Smoke
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10 Jan 2008
After You
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02 Jan 2008
Before Noon, After Noon
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31 Dec 2007
New Year's Song
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29 Dec 2007
Turn on the Light, Turn off the Light
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24 Dec 2007
A Present from Santa Claus
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22 Dec 2007
Handsome Boy
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17 Dec 2007
A Taxi for Tired Feet
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13 Dec 2007
Ten Four
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09 Dec 2007
Hold the MSG
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06 Dec 2007
Key Card
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02 Dec 2007
Chinese Breakfast
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28 Nov 2007
So Tall!
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24 Nov 2007
Give Me a Kiss
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19 Nov 2007
That's enough tea
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15 Nov 2007
Forget It
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11 Nov 2007
Do you have a girlfriend?
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05 Nov 2007
How is business?
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02 Nov 2007
Are you OK?
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31 Oct 2007
A Ghost Outside
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27 Oct 2007
Pumpkin Food
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22 Oct 2007
How many people are in your family?
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18 Oct 2007
Phone Call for the Boss
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13 Oct 2007
Speaking and Writing
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09 Oct 2007
Something to Do Tomorrow
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07 Oct 2007
Finding the Teacher
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02 Oct 2007
Too Fat
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28 Sep 2007
Don't Leave
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24 Sep 2007
Eating Tofu
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20 Sep 2007
Knowing the Teacher
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16 Sep 2007
What's tomorrow?
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10 Sep 2007
Identifying Family Members
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07 Sep 2007
How do you take your coffee?
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