Learn Chinese with Mike: Teach Yourself

迈克中国是一个革命性的中国话当然。

Chinese with Mike is a revolutionary Mandarin Chinese course taught through 120 short, highly entertaining and effective videos lessons. Chinese with Mike breaks from traditional Mandarin Chinese curricula and shields learners from the unnecessary complexities of Chinese. With Mike’s witty sense of humor and rock-star teaching skills, you’ll be totally addicted to learning.

‘It is definitely new and it definitely works.’ – Dr. Licheng Gu, Northwestern UniversityWhy learn Chinese with Mike?

Professor Mike Hainzinger:

· builds confidence through his logical step-by-step approach

· teaches through pīnyīn and focuses on getting you to speak Chinese first

· explains pronunciation and grammar with clear, familiar examples

· adds interesting facts about the intricacies of language

· includes lots of cultural tidbits

· recognizes and explains thoroughly troublesome areas

· makes learning Chinese ridiculously easy-and fun!

Join him in his garage-turned-classroom as he dons his Hawaiian shirt, grabs his marker pen and gets serious about speaking Chinese!

What will I learn?

Season 1 My family is … (learn pīnyīn, the four tones and writing system, common words, phrases)

Season 2 Food I like … (tell people you can speak Chinese, you like to play basketball, or you want to eat beef fried rice)

Season 3 Describing things … (learn about jobs, dreams and measure words)

Season 4 I like … (discover adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions)

Season 5 In the future I’ll be … (use comparisons, superlatives and transitions)