Before you can read or say a single word of Mandarin with confidence, you need Pinyin, the phonetic system that spells out how Chinese sounds. This short course takes you through it in under an hour, so every word you learn afterwards is pronounced correctly from the start.
What you’ll be able to do
- Pronounce every Chinese initial and final accurately
- Hear and reproduce the four Chinese tones without hesitation
- Apply the tone-marking rules to any new word you meet
- Handle the special tone changes and the i/ü exceptions
- Read the syllable-dividing mark correctly in longer words
- Connect Pinyin spelling to the character it represents
How the course works
- Eleven short video lessons, watched in order
- Each sound and rule is introduced, demonstrated, then practised
- Lesson notes are downloadable as PDFs
What’s inside
- 2 units, 11 lessons, 50 minutes of video
Who this course is for
- Complete beginners with no prior Chinese experience
- Anyone about to start an A1 Chinese course who wants pronunciation sorted first
Before you start
- No prior Chinese-learning experience is needed
