AllSet Go - Beginner Chinese

Practice Beginner Chinese in 10 Video Lessons

AllSet GO: the Mandarin Chinese Video Course for Beginners
$19.99
One time

Learn the essential Mandarin you need for basic communication in Chinese, and to continue your studies with a teacher through online lessons.

✓ 10 lessons of targeted content, with three videos each
✓ Focus on comprehension and communication
✓ Optional additional sections on gronunciation and grammar
✓ Speaking practice videos to get you talking

What’s in this Course

Learn to speak the Chinese you need for online lessons!

Nowadays, if you’re not still in school then you’re learning a foreign language online. You can find lots of great teachers online, but if the Chinese you’re studying is not tailored to that situation, you can waste a lot of time! With this 10-lesson course, you can focus on precisely what you need.

This course consists of 10 video lessons:

Lesson 1: Greetings and Introductions

Lesson 2: Jobs

Lesson 3: Introducing a Friend

Lesson 4: Arranging a Day to Meet

Lesson 5: Arranging a Time to Meet

Lesson 6: Don't Understand

Lesson 7: Which Tone?

Lesson 8: Birthdays

Lesson 9: Bad Connection

Lesson 10: Add Me on WeChat

Special Features of This Course

  • Designed especially for modern learners who take lessons with teachers online.

  • Created by John Pasden and the team at AllSet Learning after helping individual learners with their special learning needs since 2010.

✺ Frequently Asked Questions ✺

  • Yes, this course was designed with absolute beginners in mind. It assumes no knowledge of the sounds of Mandarin, Chinese characters, grammar, or any one that stuff.

  • Yes! AllSet Learning has always had a reputations for its strong emphasis on proper pronunciation, but it is not the focus of this course. This course focuses on communication.

    However, there are optional sections which delve into some of the finer details of pronunciation.

  • Although a Chinese character version of each lesson’s dialogue is included in the course materials, it is purely for reference. Learning Chinese characters is a long and fascinating process, and it’s usually best to wait until after a learner has fully mastered the sounds of Mandarin (by learning pinyin) before jumping into Chinese characters. (That’s what Chinese kids do, too!)

  • Yes, each lesson video has two versions: one with English and Chinese pinyin subtitles, and one with only pinyin (the standard phonetic representation of Mandarin).

    It is recommended that both are used in your studies, and outlined in the “Instructions for this Course” section of the course.

  • Yes, the course is designed for you to study on your own, both by watching the videos and by studying the lesson PDF that comes with each lesson.

  • Although we can’t force you to speak, the course was designed to provide speaking practice in the form of “Video Review” lessons.

    Hopefully you’re not too shy to speak Mandarin out loud while studying on your own! You need to start somewhere.