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Beginner Test - Memory game - Personal care items

It was a beautiful Sunday morning. After working hard for a whole week, finally, Mike had some free time to go to the supermarket. He wanted to buy some personal-care items, such as toothbrush, shaver, soap,... But it was such a big supermarket and he didn't know where to look. Mike needed to ask someone for help, and it would be much easier if he knew how to say those personal-care supplies in Chinese...

How it works You will see a set of cards with the face down. You need to use your mouse and click on one of the cards. After that you need to click on another card. If the cards turns to green that means you have found two cards that match. This means that you have matched an image against its chinese word in Hanzi-Image mode or that you have matched the chinese character against its chinese pronunciation if you are playing in Hanzi-Pinyin mode. There is a time constraint on this exercise so try to be quick!

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Fruit

Each year, when summer comes, it becomes very hot in China. In some places, the temperature can be over 40 degrees. People use different ways to cool themselves. Some use a fan, some use air conditioner and some drink cold beverages. How good it feels when you drink a fresh orange juice in a hot day! You don't know how to say orange in chinese? If that's the case you might have a hard time to get that fresh drink... and this exercise will help you learn what you need to know.

The way this exercise works is: you are presented with a chinese word and four images and you will also hear the pronunciation of the word in chinese. Based on what you hear and what you see you need to select the correct image. Even if you don't know the word at the beginning, don't worry, you will get immediate feedback on whether your option is correct or not. If you get a low score then you should repeat the exercise again. You will see that the more you repeat the exercise the better your score will be. Tips: If you want to see the roman alphabet pronunciation of a particular chinese word, click on the button that says 'pinyin'.

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Food

Everyone knows that China is the food lovers’ heaven, as there are so many choices. Apart from the traditional Chinese dishes, you will also find food from other countries and cultures, such as salad, hamburger, pizza, etc. Certainly you don't want to miss out on all those delicious chinese dishes just because you don't know the right words.

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Career

Where are you from? How old are you? What do you do? Those are the questions that you will come across when you visit a foreign land, especially when you meet someone new there. The first two questions are very general and easy to answer, but the third one could be tricky, as it tells more abut you. Are you a teacher, a doctor, a software designer or an artist? Well, you will find them all here in this career exercise.

How it works: The way this exercise works is: you are presented with a chinese word and four images and you will also hear the pronunciation of the word in chinese. Based on what you hear and what you see you need to select the correct image. Even if you don't know the word at the beginning, don't worry, you will get immediate feedback on whether your option is correct or not. If you get a low score then you should repeat the exercise again. You will see that the more you repeat the exercise the better your score will be. Tips: If you want to see the roman alphabet pronunciation of a particular chinese word, click on the button that says 'pinyin'.

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Personal care items

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Stationery

Lily is an American girl who just moved to China for her Chinese learning course. This morning, the telephone is ringing and Lily runs to answer it. It is for her roommate, who is not in at that moment, so Lily has to take a message for her. Then, she needs a pen, or a pencil, and she also needs a memo or simply some paper pad. Well, so many stationeries. And this is the very first practice for lily. Here you can help her out by clicking on the correct flashcard. Moreover, from this exercise, you will learn lots of new vocabularies for stationary, not just the pen and paper!

This exercise set provides you the systematical vocabulary learning that accompanies with the video lessons. By regularly doing each exercise, soon you will be able to master a group of the most common Chinese words and phrases. Surprisingly, you will find out what we provide here: not only Chinese pinyin and characters, but also interactive flash cards with audio inputs. This would help you to reinforce your memory for new vocabularies. Even if you don't know the word at the beginning, you will be able to pick them up from the flash card. So you will see that the more you practice, the better your score will be. What an interesting and easy exercise!

Beginner Test - Learn Pinyin and Tones - Discrimination of tones - Test 3

The third test in our series 'Learn Pinyin and Tones - Discrimination of tones' that tests your knowledge of pinyin and the ability to recognize different tones.

Pinyin is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Literally, it means to spell sound. It was designed to look up unknown Chinese characters in dictionaries, as well as teaching Chinese learners the standard pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. Once you’ve learnt Pinyin, you will be able to pronounce any of the words in Mandarin using a Chinese dictionary.

The aim of this test is to test your knowledge of Hanyu Pinyin. The exercise set includes 10 questions, and each one contains a Pinyin sound with one relevant Pinyin character. Please listen to the sound and select the most appropriate answer from A, B, C and D. Repeat the exercise as much as you can. It will help you to learn how to distinguish the different pinyin tones.

Beginner Test - Memory game - Computer Components

Memorize chinese characters, pinyin and the meaning of chinese words for all the main computer components with this memory game. Perhaps it will be useful for you if you ever need to buy a computer in china. If you don't know how to ask how will you get what you want? Do trust us most people you will come across in a chinese computer shop will not know a word of english. You have two options. You either use the usual sign language to get what you want, if you are lucky to be on display or you can be more sophisticated and actually know how to say it in chinese. This interactive flash card exercise covers the words for: monitor, notebook, desktop, mouse, mouse pad, keyboard, sound system and more...

Beginner Test - Memory game - Vehicles

Memorize chinese characters, pinyin and the meaning of chinese words for diffferent types of vehicles with this game. This game covers the words for car, bycicle, motor cycle, bus, electric bus, skate, ...

Beginner Test - Chinese Vocabulary - Computer Components

Learn new vocabulary with our interactive flash exercises. In this flash card set we cover the words for some computer components. Perhaps it will be useful for you if you ever need to buy a computer in china. If you don't know how to ask how will you get what you want? Do trust us most people you will come across in a chinese computer shop will not know a word of english. You have two options. You either use the usual sign language to get what you want, if you are lucky to be on display or you can be more sophisticated and actually know how to say it in chinese. This interactive flash card exercise covers the word for: monitor, notebook, desktop, mouse, mouse pad, keyboard, sound system and more...