Lessons 1-10

Mandarin Chinese Lessons 31 through 40

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 31: 什么时候 When

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 32: 回 Return

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 33: 东西 Things/Something

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 34: 谁 Who/Whose?

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 35: 为什么 Why?

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 36: 现在 Now

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 37: 发音 Pronunciation

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 38: 听 Listen / Hear

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 39: 有名 Famous

Mandarin Chinese Lesson 40: 单身 Single

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.