If You Only Learn 10 Nouns This Month… These 10 nouns appear everywhere in daily Mandarin. Master them and you’ll understand tons of conversations: 1. 人 (rén) – person 2. 东西 (dōngxi) – thing/stuff 3. 时间 (shíjiān) – time 4. 地方 (dìfang) – place 5. 朋友 (péngyou) – friend 6. 家 (jiā) – home/family 7. 工作 (gōngzuò) – work/job 8. 钱 (qián) – money 9. 中文 (Zhōngwén) – Chinese language 10. 问题 (wèntí) – question/problem 💬 Mini-Challenge: Choose one of these nouns and make a simple sentence. I’ll correct it for you!

Hi @Xiaojuan-Cady Chen and everyone else! I'm brand new to Mandarin. I have a bit of experience with Japanese and was wondering about a similarity there (apologies if any terms are wrong!) - is there an "alphabet" in Mandarin that allows smaller kanji to be put together to form larger words and concepts? For instance, in Japanese there are two "alphabets" made up of characters for "a, i, u, e, o" and then "ka, ki, ku, ke, ko" etc. Is there a similar alphabet in Mandarin or is it primarily made up of the more complex kanji? Thanks! Hope I worded that correctly :-)

🔥 Beginner Boost If You Only Learn 10 Verbs This Month… Learn These Master these 10 core verbs and you’ll understand 50% of daily Mandarin conversations: 1. 是 (shì) – to be 2. 有 (yǒu) – to have 3. 去 (qù) – to go 4. 来 (lái) – to come 5. 做 (zuò) – to do 6. 喜欢 (xǐhuan) – to like 7. 想 (xiǎng) – to want / to think 8. 说 (shuō) – to speak / to say 9. 学 (xué) – to study / to learn 10. 看 (kàn) – to see / to watch / to read 💬 Mini-Challenge: Comment on one verb below, and I’ll give you simple example sentences you can use right away.