Why is music such a great tool when studying Chinese? Because it helps with the hardest part of learning a new language: remember everything you've learned!
A catchy melody, a funny lyric - these are powerful ways to make what you are learning stick.
And besides: music makes learning Chinese more fun!
Learn Chinese with Rap!
With that in mind, we created this super fun, super helpful rap song and video, 'How To Introduce Yourself in Chinese'. Check it out... we're sure this lesson will stick!
This music was written and performed by the incredibly talented Anthony Belanger and animated by our Yoyo Chinese team!
Lecture Breakdown
Learning with songs is fun! But if you're ready to get serious about learning Chinese, it's time to follow a structured course that will build up your skills in the right order and give you the tools you need to study.
Our Beginner Conversational Course has over 200 short video lessons, organized into a 6-month course, with interactive flashcards, audio reviews, dialogue replays, and quizzes after each lesson.
You can go through the first 20 lessons for free before you decide if you want to study with us, so you have nothing to lose! Start here with Lesson 1:
Want to learn Chinese Characters?
We recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters. It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters. We recommend you first complete Level 1 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you’re ready to start learning these amazing characters!
If you've been studying Chinese already, and want to start learning to read and write, our two Chinese Character Courses will teach you the most common 600 characters, which combine to form 80% of all written Chinese. That's a lot!
If you've already mastered around 400-600 characters, you're ready for our Character Reader Course!
This is a totally unique course, based on 3 fully illustrated comic books, to help you make the jump from memorizing characters to actually reading sentences and stories, in Chinese, on your own!
Each lesson in the course has an animation of the comic books, with native speakers voice acting the text - giving you some 'real world' listening practice.
Break down the text in English, pinyin, and Chinese characters with fast and slow speed audio in the Dialogue Replay. Then go through the Lecture Notes for points about key vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Flashcards and quizzes will help you retain what you've learned and test yourself.
Glossy, full color paperback copies are also available on Amazon here.
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