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Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Learn Mandarin from YouTube

Nowadays we can indeed learn a lot of stuff from YouTube and not just for entertainment. I had collected a series of Mandarin lessons for this post. Hope you will find it useful.

Lesson 1: Introduce Yourself


Below are the rest of the lessons from a series of Mandarin lessons from an abandon website. Learn them at your own pace:

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Happy (快乐)

Here is the last Free Survival Chinese Course from ActiveChinese


New Phrases for Today:
快乐 - Happy
音乐 - Music
拼音 - Pinyin; Spell; Phoneticize

New Words for Today:
乐 or 樂 - Pleasure; Joyful
- Sound

Friday, February 8, 2008

Direction (方向)

Here is another free lesson from ActiveChinese


Let us take a look at the following phrases:
他在左边(...邊)
He is on the left.

她在右边(...邊)
She is on the right.

New Words for today:
- front; former
后or 後 - behind; back
- up; top
- left
- right
边 or 邊 - side
- at

Okay. I hope you can find all the above from the above video.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Drink Coffee (喝咖啡)

Here is another free lesson from ActiveChinese


Let us take a look at the following phrases:
他要喝咖啡
He want to drink Coffee

她要喝茶
She want to drink Tea

New Words for today:
- want
- drink
咖啡 - Coffee
- Tea
- He
- She

Watch the above video again and see whether you can find all the above words.

So what is your favorites drink? 咖啡 or

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Hello (你好)

Let us learn from the following video


Below are some common phrases used when conversing in Mandarin:
你好
Hello; Hi
你好吗
How are you?
谢谢
Thanks

The word Thank in Chinese can be written either as
in Simplified Chinese or
in Traditional Chinese

in Traditional Chinese is written as


Do you still remember the above words when you watch the above video? Watch the video again if you want to refresh your memory.

New Words for today:
- good
- thank
- interrogative particle (like a question tag)