Learn Mandarin Chinese
Progressive self study course for absolute beginners to intermediate learners
Progressive self study course for absolute beginners to intermediate learners
There are over 400 lessons to choose from. Absolute beginners should start at lesson 1. Each lesson continues where the last one left off.
Later lessons use the Chinese that was taught in earlier lessons. This way you are constantly reusing and remembering what was taught.
Premium subscribers get access to exercises, games and flashcard activities to reinforce what was taught.
Sign up with your Facebook account to try out the first 4 lessons of the course for free.
Our PDF pages have been updated with a new set of PDFs for most lessons. The PDFs allow our premium offline users to practice writing the new characters for each lesson on paper. There are two versions for each lesson, one featuring just the new characters for the lesson and another featuring all the characters for that lesson. As many characters will be repeated in future lessons, use the latter to practice writing characters that may have shown up in earlier lessons. Doing things this way will automatically give you more practice writing characters that show up more often, than those that don't.
Take a look at the following samples:
New Simplified characters for lesson 4
All Simplified characters for lesson 4
Traditional character versions of the above will be added in the future.
Update: Traditional character versions of the above pages have now been added!
As well, since our PDF list seems to be growing daily, we have begun to color code them to make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Blue - Simplified character version
Green - Traditional character version
Yellow - Spanish translation of complete transcript
Purple - Italian translation of complete transcript
Brown - French translation of complete transcript