Introductory Mandarin for Professionals
Most people think Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Actually, it's simple.
This course is no longer available.
Explore other courses
Course overview
Accelerated Mandarin for Professionals
Start having meaningful conversations! Even at the introductory stage.
This course is for
01
Business Executives and Professionals who want to communicate and outreach effectively in business with language and cultural insight.
02
Global Team Leaders who desire to successfully lead an international team without struggles due to language and cultural barriers.
03
Community Builders who want to establish meaningful connections with empathy in a diverse workspace and environment.
Key Outcomes
Listening | Understanding what is said
Build your Chinese comprehension from day 1 with active listening, and be able to respond in Mandarin.
Pronunciation | Speak with accuracy
Read Pinyin with accurate Mandarin pronunciation. Use the tools provided to you to familiarize essential sounds of Mandarin and tones with ease.
Speaking | Speak Mandarin in full sentences
From listening and pronunciation to speaking models, you can transfer the skills you acquire to real-life conversations naturally.
Cultural Proficiency | Present yourself in Mandarin with cultural insights
Cultural proficiency leads to successful communication in all languages. Think and speak with cultural insights to establish better connections and facilitate business opportunities.
Reading | Read to decode Chinese
Develop initial Chinese reading skills with a group of meaningful high-frequency words.
Continue to Practice | Develop Chinese language skills in a community
Continue to practice and develop Chinese language and cultural proficiency from the foundation you acquire in this course with your cohort in a private community.
A 2-week interactive course to develop initial Chinese language skills and cultural proficiency. Leave with the confidence to start and participate in meaningful conversations.
See what people are saying
Manon
Catherine
Geoff
.png&w=1536&q=75)
Anita
Glenn
Audrey
Meet your instructor
Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett
Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett
NETFLIX Chinese Language Consultant, Founder of Miss Panda Chinese
Amanda is a former Warner Bros. executive in Taiwan with outreach to the Asian region including China. She has served as an interpreter for Hollywood celebrities and personalities such as motivational speaker Tony Robbins, and numerous Fortune 500 companies.
She is the founder of Miss Panda Chinese and the Netflix Word Party Chinese Language consultant. Amanda helps business executives to acquire Mandarin and achieve their immediate communication goals with the business development outlook in mind.
Course syllabus
Week 1
- Welcome
- Fun Facts About Chinese
- Everyday Expressions 1
- Conversation: Hello and introduction
- Culture: Social Status
- Decoding Chinese words: words and radicals
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 1 (Google Slides with audio notes)
- 📄
New items - words and expressions
- 📄
Chinese Culture - Education as a Social Ladder
- 📄
Numbers 1 - 10
- More Fun Facts About Chinese: In the Chinese language, nouns in singular form and plural form are 99% the same.
- Everyday Expressions 2
- Conversation: This is my friend.
- Culture: Social setting - standing, sitting, drinking, and saying no.
- Decoding Chinese words: words and radicals
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 2 (Google Slides with audio notes)
- 📄
New Items - words and expressions
- 📄
First Mandarin Sounds eBook (Mandarin Pronunciation Chart)
- Everyday Expressions 3
- Conversation: Who wants to go to Hawaii?
- Culture: Chinese language and money-saving practice
- Decoding Chinese words: words and radicals
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 3
- 📄
New Items - words and Expressions
- 📄
Culture: Chinese language and money saving practice
- Great efforts and excellent progress, TEAM!
- Attached are the Lab slides with audio notes to listen, listen, and listen.
- Find a Learning Partner. Teach your learning partner(s) what you've learned.
- Pick a couple of items from this week and share them with your Learning Partner(s) and practice together each day! (A pet can be a Learning Partner, too.)
- 📄
Lab 01 Slides with Audio Notes
Mandarin Chinese Essentials 1
Mandarin Chinese Essentials 2
Mandarin Chinese Essentials 3
We are connecting dots with the expressions you've learned and new items!
Week 1 Lab + Office Hour
Connect the dots! Put it together!
Week 2
- Everyday Expressions 4
- Conversation with the question words: What, Where, Who, ....ma?
- Culture: Polite form of "you"
- Story listening: Amanda yǒu chá
- Decoding Chinese words: look into the Chinese characters
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 4
- 📄
New items - words and expressions
- 📄
Culture - Two Chinese Writing Systems
- Everyday Expressions 5
- 10 minutes conversation in Mandarin on everyday Chinese you can use right away
- Culture: Four Major Chinese Cultural Festivals
- Decoding Chinese words: Chinese radical - mouth 口 in eat 吃 and drink 喝.
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 5
- 📄
New items - word and expressions
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Spring Festival Guide (Lunar New Year)
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Duan Wu Jie (Dragon Boat Festival)
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Qing Ming Festival (Tomb sweeping day)
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Mid Autumn Festival (Moon Festival)
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Winter Solstice
- 📄
Chinese Culture: Ghost Month and the world culture
- Everyday Expressions 6
- Topic: Family members
- Culture: The Core Teaching of Confucius and its impact on doing business
- Decoding Chinese words: 10 Characters that also serve as radicals.
- 📄
Mandarin Essentials Playbook 6
- 📄
New Items
- 📄
Chinese Culture: A States of Propriety and Righteousness
- 📄
Chinese Culture: 6 Formations of Chinese Characters
- Total Live session time: 6 hours
- Total Lab session time: 2 hours
- The goal of Lab 3 is to reach 90% Mandarin with back-and-forth conversation
- Participants will present themselves individually in Mandarin
- Congratulations, Cohort 2!
- 📄
Lab 2 Present Yourself Playbook
Mandarin Chinese Essentials 4
Asking questions and responding! to questions
Mandarin Chinese Essential 5
We are having back-and-forth real-life conversation
Mandarin Chinese Essentials 6
We continue to have back and forth real-life conversations. Today we reached 20 minutes in 99% Mandarin. Congratulations!
Week 2 Lab + Office Hour
Today you turn impossible into possible. Milestone:
)%20(1).png&w=1536&q=75)
Learning is better with cohorts
Active, not passive
This course focuses on live workshops and hands-on projects
Learn with a cohort of peers
You’ll be learning in public through breakout rooms and an engaged community
Learn with a cohort of peers
Surround yourself with like-minded people who want to grow alongside you
Course schedule
3-5 hours
Monday - Orientation | Lab
10:00am-10:30am PT | 1:00pm-1:30pm ET
1st Monday - Orientation
2nd Monday - Lab
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Live Session
10:00am-11:00am PT | 1:00pm-2:00pm ET
Live interactive session
Friday - Lab
10am-10:30am PT | 1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Lab time to practice and interact in Mandarin. Also, design your presentation.
Friday - Office Hour
10:30am-11:30pm PT | 1:30pm -2:30 pm ET