Conversational Mandarin

Learn Mandarin the way you learned your first language — by listening and speaking, not by drilling characters or grammar tables. This is Level 1: thirty half-hour lessons across six weeks. Each lesson opens with a conversation, introduces new words and structures, and brings back everything you've met before at the moment you're about to forget it. You speak out loud from the first minute. What Level 1 covers Greetings, introductions, and asking where someone is from Numbers, prices, and shopping Ordering food and drink, and talking about meals Telling the time and making plans to meet Asking for and following directions Visiting friends and talking about family How the course works Six weeks, five lessons a week. Do one lesson a day, in order, and don't repeat a lesson more than once — the sequencing is what makes the vocabulary stick. Who it's for Complete beginners. This course is spoken Mandarin only — it doesn't teach reading or writing characters.

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