Cantonese and Mandarin for Complete Beginners (简体/繁體)

Learn the basics of Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese (with simplified and traditional characters)

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Welcome to this beginners Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese language course and thank you for choosing to learn with us!

This course is designed for total beginners of Mandarin or Cantonese who have little or no knowledge of the Chinese language. Unlike other courses, this one teaches you both the simplified and traditional characters, both in Mandarin and Cantonese - essentially a 2 in 1 course (or 4 in 1 if you prefer).

As well as the basics, this course focuses on introductions, asking questions, basic vocabulary building, sentence structure, dialogue, grammatical points and so much more…

In addition, there are some extra, older lessons from a previous instructor which are in Mandarin only. These lessons are separate to the rest of the course but contain many grammatical points, extra vocabulary and more. They have been kept on this course as an extra 'bonus', if you like.

There are many different ways to learn a new language, however they all require time and effort. If you keep practicing regularly and dedicate a certain amount of time each day, you should be fine. Also take the time to speak with native speakers if you have the opportunity to do so.

Completing this course will give you a knowledge base of at least 1500 words as well as being able to read both simplified and traditional characters. If you are in China, you will find that simplified characters are predominantly used. If however you are planning on going to Hong Kong or Macau (or even Taiwan), you will see traditional characters everywhere. You will learn how to correctly pronounce each character and how to recognize them if you are abroad in either of these places.

We hope you enjoy this course and find it to be useful.