Description

About This CourseNihao(Hello) and welcome!First, a little bit about myself and why I’m teaching Mandarin Chinese. My name is Serge Melnyk, I’m the founder of this online Mandarin Chinese course. I started producing the lessons that you found here back in January 2006 in order to help people around the world master Mandarin Chinese.As for my educational background, I studied Mandarin for almost 20 years and spent the last 13 years living in China. Currently, I spend my time between Vancouver, Canada and Shanghai, China. I have a Master’s degree in Asian Studies and Chinese linguistics from a prestigious university and I used to work for many years as educational director in the international school in Shanghai.This course is created for anyone who is interested in learning spoken Mandarin Chinese, the 100+ audio lessons are in Mp3 format and you can easily download them directly from this Website. Summer, who is a native Beijing speaker and Pauline, the native of Taiwan are helping me with the recordings of most lessons in this course, but you can also hear different voices and accents of Mandarin as well.The lessons on this Website are theme-based and progressive, which means that you can start from “zero” level and after completing this course, you will be able to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese on the variety of topics.A very important feature of this course is that you can spend as much time on each lesson as you want, there is no time limit or other requirements, just download your lessons with PDF transcripts and worksheets and start learning Mandarin right away, at your own pace, whenever you have 15-30 minutes.Every new lesson is built on the vocabulary and grammar of the previous lesson. I recommend spending about a week on every lesson. There is a lot of review of the old vocabulary in the new lessons and all lessons are interconnected. In this course we use a step-by-step approach, this method helps you to develop and reinforce listening and speaking skills in Mandarin Chinese.You can take these Mandarin Chinese Lessons with you on your iPod or Mp3 player and study anytime, at any place, at your convenience. For example, many of my students find it convenient to study in the car while they commute to work, school etc. It doesn’t matter when you join the course, the lessons are always going to be here for you and the number of lessons is growing, a new lesson on a different topic is produced weekly.