Category: Mandarin

  • Learn Pinyin

    Pinyin is the official pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua (which is pinyin itself, meaning common speech). Although we should never use Pinyin only to learn Mandarin because there are two many 同音字 (homophone) in Chinese, Pinyin is very useful to help you master more Chinese new words by yourself. You can even just use…

  • Chinese 24/7: Everyday Strategies for Speaking and Understanding Mandarin

    Chinese 24/7: Everyday Strategies for Speaking and Understanding Mandarin is a great book for Chinese learners by Albert Wolfe. If you buy the book,you can get their mp3 files for the lessons as well. And its price is very reasonable! Only $16.21 Zero to Fluent with Chinese 24/7 So you want to be able to…

  • Learn Chinese from Movie

    Online videos are great in learning a language. If you have special learning close caption and scripts for the movies you can learn more efficiently. Now a good program for Chinese learners to master Mandarin from the movie: Please click here to check it out. There’s another web site to learn Mandarin at a great…

  • Happy Father’s Day in Mandarin & Cantonese

    June 19th, 2011 is Father’s Day again! How I miss my father! Here we wish all the fathers in the world a very happy Father’s day. Happy Father’s Day in Mandarin Happy Father’s Day in Cantonese

  • Read News & Learn Chinese

    You may learn a language by reading the news. It is very helpful to learn Chinese this way too. Read the news in Chinese and try to understand. This may be your Chinese learning goal but it may be your practical learning approach too. 读新闻学汉语 Popular News Popular Chinese This is a popular learning program…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thank God for everything. First thing first in the morning,even before we open our eyes, we should say “Thanks” to God as we are still breathing. Here, I’d like to thank every visitor to ChineseBay making it one of the popular Chinese learning site. How to say “Happy Thanksgiving” in Mandarin Chinese? 感恩节快乐!

  • 老外唱中文歌

    It’s funny that some Chinese in the US call the English-speaking people (white, African American, or Hispanic) lao3 wai4 老外 (foreigners), even if they are not citizens or permanent residents yet. It is just like many Cantonese call the non-Cantonese-speakers or Mandarin speakers “Northerners” even those people are from places further South of Canton (Guangzhou).…

  • Use Your Cell Phone to Learn Chinese

    Now, it is easy to learn Chinese anywhere anytime you want. Learn Chinese on your cell phone, iPod, iPad or PC

  • 30 Free Online Lessons to Learn Mandarin

    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…

  • Chinese Flash Cards With Anki

    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…