Learn how to say where something is located (in/at)
Learn some new vocabulary: “School, Los Angeles, home, to study, restroom”
Make sentences like “Where are you?” and “I am at school”
Say perhaps the most important phrase “Please say it again, one more time”
Review new vocab: “correct/right, incorrect/wrong”
Say “Sorry, I don’t understand” and “You speak a little Chinese, right?”
Learn about the Chinese culture of being humble when receiving compliments
Use words you already know to make special, polite phrases in Chinese
Use the word “whatever” to respond to questions like “What do you want to eat?”
Learn lots of useful phrases like “great, too expensive, too small”
Review a phrase Chinese people will commonly say to you: jiāyóu (加油)
Learn the special trick to turn a statement into a suggestion
Practice important casual phrases like “long time no see” and “no problem”
Learn new vocabulary: “good, long (time), see, question, problem, to ask”
Make sentences like “I want to ask you a question” and “I have two questions”
Sound polite and respectful by saying “Wait a second” and “Let me take a look”
Learn how to soften your tone and speak casually in Chinese
Express feelings like “shut up”, “give me a kiss” and “whatever, I don’t care”
Ask and explain the meanings of words in Chinese and English
Learn a very useful question: “What does ___ mean?”
Make sentences like “What does ‘dengdeng’ mean?” “Dengdeng means ‘to wait’”
Review the phrase “how to do/say/go…”
Make the sentence “How do I say ___ in Chinese?”
Review well wishing words like “take care” and “happy birthday”
Ask questions and make statements using the word “who”
Learn new vocabulary: “female, male, boyfriend, girlfriend, boy, girl, men, women”
Make sentences like “Who is Tingting?” and “Tingting is my girlfriend”
Review how to say “this” and “that”
Review the important use of measure words
Make sentences like “Whose water is this?” and “Who is that girl?”
Learn how to use the question word “why” or “how come”
Learn new vocabulary: “because, useful, culture”
Say “Why are you learning Chinese?” and “Because I like Chinese culture”
Learn more ways to answer a common question “Why are you learning Chinese?"
Learn new vocabulary: “husband, wife, Mr., Mrs., funny, smart, fun"
Make sentences like “Because my wife is Chinese” and “Because he is funny"
Make sentences like “How is your mother recently” and “I have been good recently”
Learn new vocabulary: “How is/how are, recently”
Review the 3 different ways to say “how”: how to do, how big and how are you
Say “What do you think of me/her/my friend/this place?” and “I am tired these days”
Vocab: “tired, beautiful, handsome, cute/adorable, smart, funny, fun, interesting”
Learn the sentence pattern for asking what people thing of something
Learn to ask and respond to the phrase “What’s wrong?”
Learn new vocab: “nothing/no matter, under the weather, comfortable”
Say “Nothing, I’m okay”, “I don’t feel well” and “I am a little tired/under the weather”
Learn to say “have fun” in Chinese
Understand the difference between a Northern Chinese and a Southern Chinese accent
Learn the difference between saying “Have to” and “Don’t have to” in Chinese
Make the sentences “You have to rest” and I don’t have to go to work tomorrow”
Learn about the Chinese concept of “chi”
Make the sentences “Don’t be angry” and “Don’t piss me off”
Learn how to treat Chinese adjectives as verbs
Make the sentences “I am good/I am busy/She’s pretty/I’m tired”
Learn different meanings for the Chinese word ràng (让) “to allow, to let and to make”
Say “He does not allow me to go”, “Let me think” and “You make me very sad”
Learn one of the most common mistakes make by English speakers
Make the sentences “I want you to study Chinese” and “He does not want you to”
Learn why it is incorrect to use “wen (问) to ask somebody to do something
Say “She asked me to cook” and “He doesn’t allow me to drink alcohol”
Learn to ask questions and make statements using “or”
Say “Do you want coffee or tea?” and “I am free today or tomorrow”
Learn two different Chinese words to express the concept “look”
Make the sentences “You look pretty” and “You look a bit tired”
Learn the difference between saying tīng (听) and tīngqilai (听起来)
Make the sentence “It sounds beautiful”
Learn to correctly ay the word “hate” in Chinese
Make sentences like “I hate this” and “I hate that”
Learn the correct way to make the sentence “Call me when you get home”
Learn how to avoid many common pitfalls when making this sentence
Learn why you can’t literally translate the phrases “My girls” and “My boys”
Learn the correct way to refer to your sons and daughters
Review time-related words
Learn the correct way to say “last night, this morning and tonight”
Learn to make fraction words such as 2/3, 4/5 etc.
Learn to make percentages such as 30% and 50%
Learn two different ways to translate the English word “want”
Make sentences like “I want to go to China” and “I will go to China”
Learn how to express “I thought wrongly about something”
Make sentences like “I thought you would come, but you didn’t”
Learn how to say “a lot” in Chinese
Make sentences like “I like it a lot, Thanks a lot, and I ate a lot”
Learn several ways to say hotel based on how fancy/expensive the hotel is
Learn the difference between saying “guest house, hotel, motel etc”
Review how to make a past tense sentence using "le (了)"
Make sentences like “I’ve been learning Chinese for two years”’
Differentiate between “I haven’t slept for two days” and “I have slept for two days”
Make sentences like “I haven’t spoken Chinese for two years”
Learn the difference between these two words that mean “why/how come”
Make the sentences “How come you are so happy?” and “Why are you so happy”
Learn the difference between gāng cái (刚才) & gāng (刚)
Make sentences like “Where did you go just now?”
Learn several different ways to express the word “visit” in Chinese
Make sentences like “I visited the White House yesterday”
Learn the two different ways to say “again” in Chinese
Make sentences like “I like this movie and I want to watch it again”
Learn to use duō (多) to express the meaning “a lot”
Say “I am a lot taller than you” and “Today is much hotter than yesterday”
Learn different Chinese words to express the meaning “if”
Say “I don’t know if he will come” and “I want to know if you love me”
Make sentences like “He’s a horrible person” and “He’s a nice person”
Make the sentence “Godfather is an interesting movie”
Learn how to correctly use the word “bìng (病) - sick"
Learn to correctly make the sentence “She is very sick”
Learn the different ways of asking someone where they are from
Make sentences like “Where are you from?” and “What country are you from”
Learn the difference between 都不 (dōu bù) & bù dōu(不都)
Make sentences like “Nobody knows” and “Not all of us know”
Learn a different function and meaning for the word shì (是)
Make sentences like “He is busy” and “He is indeed busy”
Compare the differences between "le (了)" v.s. "de (的)" for past tense
Say “She went home yesterday” two different ways
Learn to emphasize time and actions
Learn the difference between these two ways to say “we”
Say “We are going to China tomorrow” and “Lily and I are going to China tomorrow”
Learn the difference between three question words
Learn 3 different ways to say “Can you speak Chinese?”
Learn the difference between asking if someone “has” or “owns” your book
Make sentences like “Do you have my book” and “Do you own my book?”
Learn about the correct way to translate the English word “all”
Make sentences like “We are all Americans” and “All cats are cute”
Learn to describe a woman as “gentle, soft and sweet” in just one Chinese word
Make the sentence “Do you like feminine women?”
Learn about the most common mistake English speakers make when using le (了)
Learn which scenarios do not need le (了) to express past tense
Gain a better understanding of le (了) when used in a change of situation
Say “I am not going back to China”
Say “I was going to go back to China, but I will not go anymore”
Learn the two different ways to say help depending on the scenario
Make sentences like “Please help me” and “He gave me lots of help”
Learn an important word that means “strong, powerful and impressive”
Make sentences like “Bob is very good with computers” and “You kick ass”
Learn how to express the word “it” in Chinese
Make sentences like “I bought it”, “It’s mine” and “I like it here”
Learn why “I can say it in Chinese” cannot be literally translated into Chinese
Say “Chinese people eat with chopsticks” and “Can I pay in US dollars?”
Learn different ways of expressing the English word “tell” depending on the meaning
Make sentences like “She told me to call her” and “To tell a story”
Learn the different ways to say “change” in Chinese
Make sentences like “He’s changed a lot” and “I don’t want to change you”
Continue learning about how to say “change” in Chinese
Learn phrases like “change jobs, change cars, change girlfriends and change clothes”
Learn how Chinese words for family members are different than in English
Learn to say your cousin: mother’s side older male, father’s side younger female etc.
Compare two different meanings of the word zài (再)
Make sentences like “We’ll go again tomorrow” and “Let’s talk about it in the future”
Make sentences like “I borrowed a book from my teacher” and “My teacher’s place”
Make sentences like “My place is messy” and “Let’s go to your place”
Learn how to answer yes and no questions in Chinese (different from English!)
Make sentences like “Aren’t you going?” and “No, I’m not going”