Lesson 001. Greetings in Chinese.
There are several ways of saying hello in Chinese. Learn how to greet people you meet for the first time and people you have not seen for a long time. You can start learning Mandarin from this lesson. Full PDF transcripts and worksheets available on the Website.
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February 6th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Hey,
Thank you so much for your Mandarin lessons. I have been waiting for something like this to come along for a long time. I’m an American and have always been fascinated by Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy, yet, I work and do not have time for classes. It is great to listen to your podcast and I hope you continue it–your lessons are well-thought out and easy to follow.
Thank you again for this wonderful opportunity.
Sincerely,
Anthony (”Tones”)
February 6th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Thank you for listening in. I will continue the lessons. I have made a curriculum for one year, after which you can hopefully be alble to communicate in Chinese on some basic level.
March 16th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Olá Serge,
thanks, very good. It seems very useful. keep on going!!!
Hope to learn a lot,
Paulo Marques, Portugal
March 21st, 2006 at 3:09 am
Thank you very much, These lessons are great for a beginner. Thanks again
David
April 5th, 2006 at 11:13 am
hi!!!
oh my god, finally!!this is what ive been looking for since i first signed up for a mandarin group class in berlitz.im abbey and im from the philippines.this is to say “xie xie” to your brilliant effort to share your mandarin knowledge online. more power to you and your website. keep it up!!!
April 6th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Of all the learn Chinese podcasts, this series is by far the most user friendly. Thanks Serge.
June 12th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
hi Serge,
Thank you so much for this chinese learning program, it’s really helpful and very successful. Today was my first time here and when I started the 1st lesson I felt a big joy because i finaly found the best way to learn Mandarin, it’s free, well-made and I can come here whenever i want.
Thank you for your great efforts.
Soundous
June 25th, 2006 at 6:45 am
This course is wonderfull thanxxxxxxx a lot:)
Iris
August 5th, 2006 at 1:21 am
I have been studying Chinese in China for about a year and was close to giving up when I found your website. I recognized immediately that you possess the tools I need to improve my Mandarin skills. I am happy to pay the fees. They can, in no way, compensate you for the service (hope) that you are giving me.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:14 am
hi serge
I just had found your place, I only can say it’s great, easy to learn, and very useful.
Thank you a lot for your great job and dedication in developing this.
Guillermo Rivero, Lima, Peru
November 26th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
thanks so much! This will be great! Any chance of a lesson on football talk?! As i often play football with a chinese friend! Thanks!
November 27th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Hey ! This website is good !! I liked the lessons !!! I hope God bless you who made this website to help people that want learn chinese mandarin !
December 13th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Merci beaucoup ! There’re no such lesson in France ! Thank u man ! Wo hen xihuan ni ! Xiexie ! ^___^
February 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Xie xie! This is a great site! I’m now taking Mandarin level1 class for my coco subject, and this site is really helpful for me to learn more . and I will use it to improve my Mandarin skills in the future. ok keep on going! Xie xie once again.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:46 am
hi
I have been searching for such a web site for learning zhong wen. Really, it is fantastique!
August 6th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Hi Sam,
Do you have iTunes? Why don’t you subscribe to a feed(automatic MP3 files downloads)?
There is a button for iTunes and another “feed” button next to it. If You click on that orange button, you will get a list of all Mp3s on one page.
Best,
Serge
August 6th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Thanks, Serge. I mean “xie xie”
August 14th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Hello Serge,
Thanks for the site. I’ve been listening for around six months to the podcasts - now I have subscribed to start learning from the transcripts and worksheets also.
I speak French and German and my mother tongue is English. I’m finding that Mandarin is not like learning a European language - so I am carefully planning my time to dedicate to learning. Hopefully I will be able to visit Great China -or Taiwan again in the next couple of years - either for business or for a holiday.
I’m hoping that the next six months will bring me some serious progress!
Kind regards
Alan
Lancashire, England
March 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Wo hen gan xie, Serge! Me and my friend are learning together, since we have a chinese class next year in school. What I wanted to do most was to go to the Shaolin Temple in china and study their’ martial arts. I already know enough japanese to be able to teach my own form of martial arts in japan when I get older. So, I only have thanks to say to your detailed and great lessons!
In japanese, all I have to say is Arigato Gozaimasu!
March 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I can’t get the worksheets when I log in and I don’t know how to put the
lessons on Itunes.
Please help.
Rachel
March 14th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Dear Rachel,
Let’s work it out, it’s quite easy.
So first, let’s get access to the transcripts. I have sent you an email after you signed up with the instructions, probably you did not get it.
You will need your user name and password and to follow these steps.
1) Login from the sidebar and arrive at your Website membership area. ( you need your own login name and password )
2)In that area(control panel), in the left upper corner, there is a link that says ” 6 months”, it’s under the “Your Subscription” title.
3) Click on it and you will see a page with links to all transcripts and worksheets on it.
I just did so using your user name and everything works.
Now about the iTunes and iPod. So I assume, you have an iPod and would like to download and transfer all lessons to it. In order to do so, the first thing you need to make sure is that iTunes is working properly.
What’s your version of iTunes? Is it very old? Does it have a “title” “Podcasts” on the left bar when your iTunes is open? Because in very old versions, I guess before 2005, there is no such item. If you need iTunes, you can download a new version of this program for free from www.apple.com/itunes/
So, let’s assume you got iTunes working. Go to my Website www.melnyks.com and click on the iTunes icon on the sidebar. Your iTunes program will start to launch. Once it finishes opening up, you will see my podcast page with a photo, description and a list of lessons at the bottom, all in the iTunes now.
On top, next to my photo, there is a small button that says ” free Subscribe”. Click on it.
Now you need to click on the “Podcasts” title on the left of your iTunes screen that I mentioned earlier. You will see that iTunes automatically downloaded the latest lesson, let’s say Lesson 103 and under it, in grey color, there is a long list of all lessons, lesson1 to lesson 102.
Look at the very top of the list. You will see a small button “get all”. Click on it and iTunes will start downloading all lessons. This may take a while, depends on your internet speed.
When this process is finished, you will see that all lessons are downloaded and they are now in black color not in grey as before.
If you plug your ipod now, your iTunes should synchronize with it, this is enabled by default. iTunes will create an exact copy of itself in your iPod, so all lessons will be transfered to the iPod. If you delete smth from iTUnes, it will be automatically deleted from your iPod as well.
After the transfer of files is done, you will be able to find all audio lessons in your iPod under “Podcasts”-”Language Courses” section.
I really hope you can work it out. Please let me know how it goes.
Best,
Serge