{"id":1038,"date":"2022-04-13T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/cl-150-bulletin\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:21:12","slug":"new-chinese-fundamentals-courses-tones-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/cl-150-bulletin\/2022\/04\/13\/new-chinese-fundamentals-courses-tones-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chinese Fundamentals Courses: Tones & Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mandarin Chinese can be intimidating to learn from scratch\u2014and maintain throughout your career.<\/p>\n

Get started on the right foot and keep your fundamentals sharp with our two new courses: Chinese Tones & Chinese Radicals Familiarization. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Developed by a veteran Mandarin Chinese teacher, these courses apply her lessons learned from more than 10 years of teaching the language to US Government professionals.<\/p>\n

Chinese Tones Course<\/strong><\/h1>\n

You can\u2019t speak or understand spoken Chinese if you can\u2019t distinguish and pronounce the different tones.<\/p>\n

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In Chinese, the same syllable can be pronounced in different tones to give a word different meanings. For example, if you say the expression for \u201cexcuse me\u201d with the wrong tone, you could accidentally say \u201cto kiss\u201d.<\/p>\n

These mistakes are very common among beginners and even among intermediate learners who haven\u2019t quite mastered the way tones behave together. Unfortunately, most textbooks only give a short overview of tones and neglect an important middle step: practicing tones in combination in multisyllable words.<\/p>\n

In about 2.5 hours, our Chinese Tones Course will prepare you to identify and pronounce tones both alone and in multisyllable words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll progress from tones by themselves, to tones in combination, to full words and phrases\u2014all using vocab and language that beginner Chinese learners are likely to come across.<\/p>\n

The course also focuses on real world applications. For example, native speakers rarely fully pronounce the third tone, so we\u2019ll help you practice it the way you\u2019ll actually hear it in real conversations.<\/p>\n

Chinese Radicals Course<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Just like you can\u2019t listen to or speak Chinese without tones, you can\u2019t read or write the language without knowing the radicals.<\/p>\n

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Chinese has no alphabet. Instead, there are tens of thousands of characters that you must memorize. Fortunately, characters are all made up of the same radicals, <\/em>and there’s only about 200 of those (and even native speakers might not know all of them).<\/p>\n

When you understand how radicals come together to form a character, you can learn more characters in less time.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, you\u2019ll get maybe a few pages on radicals in most Chinese textbooks. If you\u2019re working with an instructor, he or she will likely end up spending many hours expanding on what the textbook teaches so you can make sense of radicals and their implications for stroke order, character meanings, and beyond.<\/p>\n

In about 6 hours, our Chinese Radicals Course will help you master the 40 most common and essential radicals, both on their own and within characters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This course will help you get to the root of Chinese (pun totally intended) through:<\/p>\n