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Great Free Lessons From CRI
(China Radio International)

Table of Contents

Course	Title	Topic & Fuction
Lesson 1	你好！	Basic Greetings
Lesson 2	请问您贵姓？	Making an Acquaintance
Lesson 3	你住在哪儿？	Asking about Address
Lesson 4	你家有几口人？	Family
Lesson 5	今天几号？	Time
Lesson 6	请问邮局在哪儿？	Asking for Directions
Lesson 7	请问去天安门怎么走？	Traffic
Lesson 8	请慢一点儿说。	Request
Lesson 9	我喜欢游泳。	Hobbies
Lesson 10	你会打乒乓球吗？	Sport Activities
Lesson 11	我在语言大学对外汉语学院学习。	Study & Work
Lesson 12	我想换一百美元。	Money Exchange
Lesson 13	我们吃什么？/你们这儿有什么菜？	Eating Out
Lesson 14	请问……在吗？	Making Phone Calls
Lesson 15	天气预报说，明天有雨。	Talking about Weather
Lesson 16	这件衣服多少钱？	Going Shopping
Lesson 17	我肚子疼得厉害。	Seeing a Doctor
Lesson 18	你对这个问题有什么看法？	Asking about Opinions
Lesson 19	这儿邮递包裹吗？	Posting a Package
Lesson 20	你去过九寨沟吗？	Traveling
Lesson 21	请问，有空房间吗？	Booking Rooms in a Hotel
Lesson 22	月饼真好吃！	Talking about Customs
Lesson 23	周四你能来参加我的生日聚会吗？	Party part 1 (Invitation, Acknowledgement and Declination)
Lesson 24	你今天穿得真漂亮！	Party part 2 (Praise)
Lesson 25	对不起，我来晚了。	Party part 3 (Apology)
Lesson 26	明天咱们去看京剧吧！	Making an Appointment
Lesson 27	考的真不错！祝贺你！	Congratulation & Condolences
Lesson 28	骑车别骑太快了！	Advice
Lesson 29	这个假期你们有什么计划？	Plans
Lesson 30	我要回国了。	Departure & Seeing Someone Off

Comments: Great Flash animation to help your learn Mandarin Chinese. How to speak and write the basic Chinese, along with grammar points and explanation. Hope you enjoy all of them. We can start an interactive lessons with this great resource.

As we mentioned earlier, Anki is a

great tool to create Chinese Flash Cards

Here’s another example using Anki.

The deck of these Chinese flash cards was generated with the Anki Pinyin Toolkit and a word list from another open source Java program: Flashcard for Chinese Characters.

The pinyin, English definitions and sounds were all automatically generated from Pinyin Toolkit. Send me a list of Chinese words, and we can created a new deck for you to download.

Files You Can Download:
1)Anki Chinese Flash cards: Grade1 (323) ( You need to download and install Anki first if you haven’t)
2)Anki - the Best Flashcard tool (2146)

Anki is a great flash card system that helps to remember things easily. It is a great tool for Chinese learners!

We have just started a video series “Learn Chinese With Anki”, you may just watch and learn and then download the software for your computer( Windows or Mac or iPhone, Google Phones) and use it for your self study too.

Here’s lesson One of “Learn Chinese with Anki”:

Now here’s the link to download your copy of Anki:
http://ichi2.net/anki/ (It is a dofollow link to promote this great web site)

If you Google for Chinese chat or Pinyin Chat room, we are on the top page in the search result.
We have one of the most popular Chinese chat rooms.

In order to provide better chatting environment by reducing spammers, we need to require an access code soon.

Now you can easily get an access to by filling out this form:

Today, we want to talk about some best sites to learn Chinese words besides ChineseBay.com

#1 Nciku.com: The best website in English and Chinese to learn Chinese characters and words. ciku or ci3 ku4 词库, means the word warehouse. This site is “more than a dictionary”, you can lots of tools to learn the Chinese language with sound and animation to master the Chinese words character by character or in sentence examples. You can learn to write the characters stroke by stroke.
They have “Chinese Conversation of the Day”. For example, today they have:

Shanghai World Expo – home / expo

*A-Mei o 我有几个问题，我打算去参加上海世博会了。
o I have some questions because I am going to Expo in Shanghai….

They have “video notes” to illustrate the Chinese words too.

e.g. 摘[zhāi]Description:
摘 means to pick or to take fruit off a tree or plant. It is emphasized by separating the fruit from it’s original place.

If you take HSK ( the Chinese standard exame), you must find their Popular Vocab Lists such as HSK level 1 to level 4 very useful.

#2 Chinese-tools.com: A great collection of useful tools to learn Chinese.
Among the most useful and popular, you can find “Character of the Day”
Speaking Chinese
* Mandarin audio lessons
* Chinese vocabulary
* Online exercises
* Mandarin phrasebook
Writing Chinese
* Chinese characters
* Chinese writing lessons
* Visual recognition
…. so much more that you must visit it to see for yourself.
#3 MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary: Learn Chinese characters by writing, pronunciation and meaning. Take the Chinese quizzes and learn. You can also get portable dictionary on your cellphone.
You may get Cantonese pronunciation there too. Its alexa ranking is even higher than Chinese-tools.com, meaning more traffic and popular. It is another “must-have” for Chinese learners. Check it out: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

With these three great web sites and Chinesebay.com , your study on Chinese words would be very easy and efficient.

Although we had this on this site before, but here is a new version with a little girl learning to say “Happy Mother’s Day”

母亲节快乐
mŭ qīn jié kuài lè
母 亲 节 快 乐

Mandarin first, then Cantonese,then Mandarin word by word again.

From ChineseBay, we all wish you a great Mother’s Day ever!

Play Audio Comment.

I really want to tell you how much miss my mother in Guangzhou. I have not seen her for nearly four years.

Although we say this is good for advanced Chinese learners, this is great for Chinese beginners and up as well as English learners.

In this video, 白洁 taught you how to say sneakers in British English (i.e. trainers), and in Chinese ( 运动鞋 yun4 dong4 xie2 )

Shopping = 逛街
honk = 按喇叭
to get lost = 迷路了
really interesting/fun = 真是有意思
market (selling vegetables and meat) = 菜市場
egg plant = 茄子
egg = 鸡蛋
Chinese idiom 一个头两个大 it means “to be in trouble or difficulty”
zucchini / courgette = 小胡瓜; 意大利黄瓜 or 西葫芦
handsome boy/man = 帅哥
pants /trousers = 长裤
panties or Underpants /pants or snickers = 内裤 ( inner pants = underwear)
embarrassing = 羞死人了
I don’t want to live = 不想活了。
When Americans say “My God!”, we Chinese would say “妈呀”

Youtube Video for Advanced Chinese
白洁不仅说英文，也说中文。 Talking About American English & British English in Chinese. Wow!

白洁的中文好棒！
Learn how to say “Delicious” in Chinese from 白洁。

Do you want to find a great meetup in Oakland where you can learn Mandarin and Cantonese or share your knowledge of Chinese language? Or just to make some Chinese friends?

Oakland Mandarin & Cantonese Meetup is way to go! They were founded in May, 2009 by John and now already have over 300 members! Actually their full name is “Bay Area Cantonese and Mandarin speakers” and it is “for young Chinese Americans that like to have fun and do exciting things. Kayaking, rock climbing, sailing, and mountain bike riding are some of the outdoor activities that we will do on weekends. Indoor activities will include bar hoping, wine tasting, Chinese dessert sampling, and karaokeing”

Natural Chinese

Archive of the past days
Chinese text to speech software is great when you want to learn Chinese Mandarin word by word, I mean character by character. After you have learned the sound of the character, however, you actually need to learn the natural way to speak the whole sentence.

Thanks to the feedback of Mandarin Chinese Word of the Day users, we give you the recording of the sentences by a native speaker here for you to review what you have learned.

In case our update or upload cannot catch up with the current date, please come back soon and we appreciate your patience and support. Speak up and your feedback will always help us to improve the learning tools for you.

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