Lessons 1-10

Mandarin Chinese Lessons 11 through 20

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 11: 有 To Have

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 12: 去过 Have Been To

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 13: 难 Difficult

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 14: 请问 Excuse me

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 15: 想 Would like

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 16: 喝 To drink

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 17: 要 Want/Will

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 18: 怎么 How

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 19: 有趣 Interesting

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 20: 工作 Work

Lessons 11-20
Lessons 21-30
Lessons 31-40
Lessons 41-50
Lessons 51-60
Lessons 61-70
Lessons 71-80
Lessons 81-90
Lessons 91-100
Lessons 101-110
Lessons 111-120
Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.