Congrats on your decision to tackle Mandarin Chinese, and welcome to my garage. If you’re thinking that a one-car garage isn’t the ideal classroom to learn the language of the future, guess again. It’s worked for a million others, and now it’s your turn.
My name is Mike Lǎoshī (Teacher Mike) and I’m ready to astound you with my unparalleled ability to make learning Chinese fun and effective.
Sorry if that sounds immodest — I’m just repeating what everybody else says.
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Try Episodes 1–10
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Lesson 1
Orient-ation to Chinese
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Lesson 2
Pinyin I: The Initials
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Lesson 3
Pinyin II: The Finals
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Lesson 4
Pinyin III: Review
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Lesson 5
Pinyin IV
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Lesson 6
Pinyin V
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Lesson 7
Tones
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Lesson 8
Characters
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Lesson 9
Hello! How Are You?
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Lesson 10
More Basic Greetings
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Mike's method
As you can guess, the approach in Chinese with Mike is pretty much revolutionary: so carefully structured by me that it will feel less regimented and more spontaneous than that of traditional courses.
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Why learn chinese?
Quite simply, it will make you sound cool!
More seriously? Chinese is the most widely-spoken language in the world, with over 1 billion speakers internationally, Mandarin is the language of business and pleasure, it's the language of the future and it's the language you should be choosing to learn.
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