By the end
What you'll build
- Build Chinese sentences in the fixed time-place-manner-verb order
- Use measure words correctly between numbers and nouns
- Ask questions with 吗, with 呢, and with the verb-not-verb pattern
- Use 了 for completion and change, and 过 for experience
- Talk about the past and future without any tense marking
- Keep a conversation running with the connectors Chinese speakers use
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 15 lessons
- 01
Word Order and Measure Words
3 lessons- The Order Is Fixed, and That's the Whole Grammar
- Building Sentencessentence builder
- Measure Words and Orderfill blank
- 02
Questions and Aspect
5 lessons- Four Ways to Ask a Question
- 了 and 过 — Aspect, Not Tense
- Questions and Particlesfill blank
- Listening: Ordinary Talklistening lab
- Building Questions and Aspectsentence builder
- 03
Opinions and Keeping It Going
7 lessons- Opinions, Agreement and Softening
- Listening: A Friendly Disagreementlistening lab
- Speaking Lab: Your Weekend and Your Viewspeaking lab
- Word Power: Conversation Connectorsword power
- Final Check: Everyday Mandarinquiz
- + 2 more lessons
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
15 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.