The 10 best free resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
I’ve gathered here what I consider the best free resources for learning Mandarin and ranked them in order of usefulness. I reckon you could learn Mandarin very effectively, for free, using only these resources.
Five free Chinese podcasts you should be listening to
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I really like Chinese podcasts as a source of listening material.
10 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Chinese Right Now
One of the most important aspects of learning Chinese is making the best use of your time. It can be easy to waste all of the little five-minute chunks of time that appear throughout your day, but if you can put them to use, the benefits add up fast.
5 Lies Teachers Tell You About Mandarin Tones
Mandarin tones are one of the classic “difficult parts” of the language. Despite that, textbooks and teachers often do a bad job of teaching them. A big part of this is that the focus is too often on teaching tones, rather than teaching how to learn tones.
Numbers are hard in Chinese because you don’t understand them in English
Numbers are always a stopping point when learning foreign languages. The first reason for this is that they fall into a category of things that is very hard to memorise: sets. Any type of set is hard to learn compared to discrete units of other information.
Improve Your Chinese With: Subtitles
There are quite a few language learning services that help you learn Chinese by giving you audio with matching text. It’s a great approach, because you can reinforce your listening and reading at the same time.
Improve Your Chinese By: Speaking Slowly
Time for some unusual advice: try to speak Chinese slower, rather than faster. Most advice you see about learning languages encourages you to go for “fluency” and speaking as much as possible. There is some merit to this – it is of course good to get in a lot of speaking practice.
Asking Yes / No Questions in Mandarin Chinese
There are two ways to ask yes / no questions in Mandarin: with the “ma” particle, or by using a positive / negative sentence structure.
Chinese grammar: Expressing any with 任何renhe
This article is a stub. Editors can help the Chinese Grammar Wiki by expanding it. 任何 is a modifier that means means "any" or "whichever, whatsoever". It is also like the English phrase "any and all, no matter what"
Usage of Chinese Number
Chinese grammar requires the use of classifiers (measure words) when a numeral is used together with a noun to express a quantity. For example, "three people" (三个人sān ge rén), is expressed as "three GE person", where 个gèis a classifier. There exist many different classifiers, for use with different sets of nouns, although 个is the most common, and may be used informally in place of other classifiers.
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