Learn Chinese: Free Online Lessons
"Let's Learn Chinese", Free Online Mandarin audio Courses
These progressive audio lessons are suitable for all beginners (A1 / HSK1, A2 / HSK2 and B1 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The "Let's Learn Chinese" complete method can also be used as supplement to any other method. Each lesson consists of a new Chinese word list, grammar points, texts and dialogues, and exercises.
The Basics
- Lesson 01 - Chinese phonetics : The pinyin
- Lesson 02 - The Chinese tones
- Lesson 03 - The Chinese Characters
- Lesson 04 - Basic Chinese Grammar
Section One
- Lesson 05 - Introductions in Chinese
- Lesson 06 - Chinese numbers
- Lesson 07 - Possession and classifier
- Lesson 08 - Introducing your family
- Lesson 09 - Dates and Birthday dates
- Lesson 10 - Schedule and time
- Lesson 11 - Location / place
- Lesson 12 - Expressing the arrangement of things
- Lesson 13 - Inviting and proposing a choice
- Lesson 14 - Price and purchases
- Lesson 15 - To go, come and return
- Lesson 16 - Transportation
Section Two
- Lesson 17 - To do something and habits
- Lesson 18 - Sports and leisure
- Lesson 19 - To be able to do something
- Lesson 20 - Climate and weather
- Lesson 21 - Asking directions
- Lesson 22 - Disease and hospital
- Lesson 23 - To go shopping
- Lesson 24 - Way of doing things
- Lesson 25 - To plan and organize something
- Lesson 26 - Asking about completed past actions
- Lesson 27 - Series of actions
- Lesson 28 - Once again...
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What a beginner actually has to learn first
Chinese has a reputation for difficulty that is only half deserved, and knowing which half saves months. The grammar is genuinely simple: no verb conjugation, no gendered nouns, no plurals, no agreement, no cases. A verb has one form, whoever does it and whenever it happens. Word order and a handful of small particles carry what other languages carry with endings.
The difficulty is in three other places. The tones, which are part of a word rather than an intonation, and which have to be learned with the word from the first day rather than added later. The writing system, which is unrelated to the sound and takes sustained time. And the vocabulary, which shares almost nothing with European languages, so there are no free words to fall back on.
That shapes what a first course should do, and it is what these lessons do: spoken situations first, with audio, so that the tones are learned by ear along with the words rather than from a table. Reading and writing come in alongside, at their own pace. Each lesson is a short dialogue on an everyday situation, with the Chinese text, the pinyin, the translation and the recording.