Mandarin Chinese Flashcards
Learn Mandarin Chinese with 11 flashcard decks with audio and pinyin: travel, food, tones and everyday words. Free to read.
Best forBeginners who read pinyin and want to hear every tone.
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Learn Mandarin Fast - Master Essential Words and Phrases for Quick Fluency
Master Mandarin fast with 200 essential flashcards covering tones, survival words, phrases, food vocabulary, and sentence patterns with Pinyin pronunciation guides.
Advanced Mandarin - Cultural Integration & Family Conversations
Master advanced Mandarin for cultural integration and family relationships. Learn respectful expressions, community interactions, and authentic conversational phrases.
Practical Mandarin - Intermediate Conversation Skills
Build practical Mandarin conversation skills for short-term visitors. Learn market negotiations, daily interactions, and cultural phrases beyond tourist basics.
Mandarin for Kids - First 100 Essential Words
Essential Mandarin vocabulary for children. Learn family, animals, colors, food, and everyday words with simple examples and pronunciation guides.
Mandarin for Tourists - Essential Travel Phrases
Master essential Mandarin vocabulary and phrases for tourists. Learn greetings, food ordering, directions, and basic conversations for your China travel.
Mandarin Food Vocabulary - Fruits and Vegetables
Learn Mandarin names for common fruits and vegetables. Perfect for market shopping, cooking, and healthy eating conversations in Chinese.
Mandarin Animal Vocabulary for Kids
Fun Mandarin flashcards featuring common animals. Learn pets, farm animals, and wildlife vocabulary with child-friendly examples.
Mandarin Tones in Everyday Words
Teaches the four Mandarin tones and the neutral tone, then the tone pairs inside everyday words like 你好, 谢谢 and 不客气. Covers the 3+3, 不 and 一 tone changes, with simplified characters and pinyin.
Mandarin Phrases for Ordering Food and Bubble Tea
Teaches the Mandarin phrases you need to order food and bubble tea in mainland China, from QR code menus and spice levels to paying with WeChat or Alipay. Simplified characters with pinyin.
Mandarin Colors - Basic Color Vocabulary
Master Mandarin color vocabulary with simple examples. Essential for descriptions, shopping, and everyday Chinese conversations.
Mandarin Weather and Seasons Vocabulary
Learn Mandarin weather and seasonal vocabulary. Perfect for daily conversations about climate, temperature, and seasonal activities.
Mandarin phrasebooks & guides
Free, practical guides to get you speaking — then grab the deck to hear every phrase.
Mandarin Chinese Flashcards
Mandarin Chinese flashcards with audio and pinyin: 11 decks for travel, colors, food and kids. Read every card free; one Pro plan opens them all.
Read the guide200 Common Mandarin Chinese Phrases
All 200 common Mandarin Chinese phrases with pinyin and English meaning. Grouped by topic. Free to read. Nothing to sign up for.
Read the guideHow to Order Food in Chinese (and Bubble Tea)
How to order food in Chinese, from the QR code menu to paying with WeChat. 32 phrases with pinyin and English. Free to read.
Read the guideChinese Tones in Everyday Words
Chinese tones in real words: the 4 tones, the neutral tone, tone pairs and the 3+3, 不 and 一 changes. Pinyin and English. Free to read.
Read the guideHow Long Does It Take to Learn Chinese?
How long does it take to learn Chinese? The US State Department lists 88 weeks of full-time class for Mandarin. See why, and how to start.
Read the guideChinese Numbers from 0 to 10,000
Chinese numbers with characters and pinyin: 0 to 10, the tens, 100, 1,000 and 10,000. Plus when to say liang for 2, and prices and phone numbers.
Read the guideWhy Choose Our Mandarin Flashcards?
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mother - 1st tone (high level). Keep your voice high and flat, like singing a sustained note.
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