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Do you have fallig and rising tone on both ni & hao, it does not sounds like that. perhaps it should be rising and then falling and risigng. Could you please advise me
Hey, you’re absolutely right (good ears!). When you have two falling rising tones together, the first one usually changes to a rising tone. By convention, when writing we leave the original tones where they are. Thanks for pointing this out!
i have a question for you
wo hen hao- have a change convention to?
it’s seems like a rising, rising and folling rising tone.
i think when there is more than one follin rising tone
always and just the last one sounds like that, and the other
are always rising, can be that ?
You have good ears! When two falling rising tones are placed together, the first one usually becomes a rising tone to make it easier to say them together. So Ni3 hao3 becomes Ni2 hao3 and Wo3 hen3 hao3 becomes Wo3 hen2 hao3.
hey all you chinese learners and the people responsible for this website. i’ve wanted to learn chinese for such a long time, i’m so ta ma de happy for this site, it makes it so simple to learn and understand and most importantly RETAIN INFORMATION.
Just sending out a huge thanks to everyone involved and urge all poeple who want to learn, just to give it a shot, take one lesson per day, or one every 2 days. you’ll be fine (“,)
I have started to learn chinese.
nice site.
Very helpful and encouraging admin team.
/just downloaded first lesson here../
I wouldnt mind spending some buck, if i am promised similar input at higher levels too.!
The Premium section is the vocabulary, transcript, activity and notes pages for each lesson. You can also find additional premium resources in the “Member Tools” section of the links at the bottom of this page.
Hey I noticed that when I do the practice test and choose the pronunciation section, there’s no way to differentiate which “Ta” it is asking for me to type. I’m guessing in this case, I should ask for the pinyin to be shown below so I would know which “Ta” to type?
Yes unfortunately in the case of the audio “Ta” there is no way to tell. As you suggested, you can try out other modes like pinyin or characters to differentiate them.
Are we only supposed to learn the characters in the “New Characters” activity? You mention that you will be using characters from previous lessons in new lessons so I want to be prepared. Yet characters like da1/2/3/4 were used in lesson 2 but not featured in the character activity.
Yes I purposely didn’t include the da characters (and characters from lesson 1) as they were used to just show tones, rather than learn the actual meanings of those characters.
Those characters will show up later in the course when their meanings are introduced.
For the flash cards activity, when you choose to listen and write the Chinese characters, you need to mention if you are asking the question about she) 她 or (he)他 or at least give a hint because it sounds similar.
Hi, I am trying your course with 10 free lessons. Unfortunately, I cannot download the worksheet, is it not available for free or can be fixed somehow? Thank you, Yulia
What font are you using to produce your tones?
i.e. nǐ hǎo
hǎo
nǐ hǎo ma?
wǒ hěn hǎo
nǐ
wǒ
tā
tā hǎo ma?
tā hěn hǎo
The font is normal Times New Roman, but your browser needs to support Unicode UTF-8 to see the accents. On your browser menu if you click on the View menu, under (Character) Encoding you should see some other choices there too.
ni hao
Do you have fallig and rising tone on both ni & hao, it does not sounds like that. perhaps it should be rising and then falling and risigng. Could you please advise me
Hey, you’re absolutely right (good ears!). When you have two falling rising tones together, the first one usually changes to a rising tone. By convention, when writing we leave the original tones where they are. Thanks for pointing this out!
Ni hao
i have a question for you
wo hen hao- have a change convention to?
it’s seems like a rising, rising and folling rising tone.
i think when there is more than one follin rising tone
always and just the last one sounds like that, and the other
are always rising, can be that ?
I hope you undertand my english(i speech spanish)
…and could answer me please…
Xiexie ni…and…Zaijian
Hi Fernanda,
You have good ears! When two falling rising tones are placed together, the first one usually becomes a rising tone to make it easier to say them together. So Ni3 hao3 becomes Ni2 hao3 and Wo3 hen3 hao3 becomes Wo3 hen2 hao3.
Hope that helps!
Ni3 Hao3!
When I need to ask someone about how I am after my haircut, for exemple, can I say just
Wo3 hao3 ma?
Xie4xie Ni3.
Zai4jian4.
Hi Fernanda,
You could say Wo3 hao3 kan4 ma? (Do I look good?) The verb kan4 (mentioned in lesson 1 and taught in lesson 27) means “to look.”
hey all you chinese learners and the people responsible for this website. i’ve wanted to learn chinese for such a long time, i’m so ta ma de happy for this site, it makes it so simple to learn and understand and most importantly RETAIN INFORMATION.
Just sending out a huge thanks to everyone involved and urge all poeple who want to learn, just to give it a shot, take one lesson per day, or one every 2 days. you’ll be fine (“,)
Wei!
Ni2Hao3 !
I have started to learn chinese.
nice site.
Very helpful and encouraging admin team.
/just downloaded first lesson here../
I wouldnt mind spending some buck, if i am promised similar input at higher levels too.!
Wo xing ‘Bhushan’
Zaijian.
Gao xing.
🙂
Great website for learning Chinese!
Ni hao …
wo hen xi huan da >>>> Is it right ???
any way tanks ..
zaijian..:)
For the cartoon dialogue of lesson 2 click HERE.
I can’t seem to download the mp3 to my iphone. These are not available for downloading?
I have downloaded lesson 1 however the following lessons do not download onto my computer. Can you assist.
Hi Ted,
I have sent you an email, which should resolve the situation. Let me know if it doesn’t.
ni hao! Where is premium section?
Hi Nancy,
The Premium section is the vocabulary, transcript, activity and notes pages for each lesson. You can also find additional premium resources in the “Member Tools” section of the links at the bottom of this page.
Hope that helps!
Hey I noticed that when I do the practice test and choose the pronunciation section, there’s no way to differentiate which “Ta” it is asking for me to type. I’m guessing in this case, I should ask for the pinyin to be shown below so I would know which “Ta” to type?
Yes unfortunately in the case of the audio “Ta” there is no way to tell. As you suggested, you can try out other modes like pinyin or characters to differentiate them.
Hello,
Are we only supposed to learn the characters in the “New Characters” activity? You mention that you will be using characters from previous lessons in new lessons so I want to be prepared. Yet characters like da1/2/3/4 were used in lesson 2 but not featured in the character activity.
Thank you.
Hi Trevor,
Yes I purposely didn’t include the da characters (and characters from lesson 1) as they were used to just show tones, rather than learn the actual meanings of those characters.
Those characters will show up later in the course when their meanings are introduced.
Let me know if that makes sense.
Yes that makes sense, thank you.
I am enjoying these lessons so far.
Hi Adam, how can i get a virtual mandarin keeboard? Any tip? Tks.
Hi Roberto,
We recommend using pinyin as your Chinese keyboard entry type. This way, no special keyboard or characters is required. Hope that helps.
Thanks, I’ll be back in a day or two 🙂
I don’t understand how we are supposed to do the typing test. It says to type in the characters in the box. How can we do this? Thanks!
Type in the box using pinyin. It will convert it into Chinese characters that you can choose from. Let me know if you have any issues.
in google translate, 搭 means take…not to join!
It has multiple translations, depending on context.
For the flash cards activity, when you choose to listen and write the Chinese characters, you need to mention if you are asking the question about she) 她 or (he)他 or at least give a hint because it sounds similar.
Good point – I need to look and see how we can fix this.
Hi, I am trying your course with 10 free lessons. Unfortunately, I cannot download the worksheet, is it not available for free or can be fixed somehow? Thank you, Yulia
Please email us and we’ll get it to you.