# How To Learn Chinese

By [Travis_g](https://paragraph.com/@travis-g) · 2023-05-05

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What does elementary teach?

Divided by chunks:

1.  Pinyin is very important. The foundation must be laid well, otherwise students may give up if they don't learn pinyin well.
    
2.  For the text, practicality comes first.
    
3.  Grammar still needs to be taught, but pay attention to repeated practice, and must also be taught in the scene.
    
4.  Chinese characters can be taught simply, not the focus. If students are really not interested, or they really can’t learn them, they just give up.
    

\[1-60 hours to talk about content\]:

Divided by content:

1.  Be a guest, learn how to greet, polite words, usage of please, and ask questions with this pair of food.
    
2.  Numbers, quantifiers, sentences, phone numbers
    
3.  Meet friends, self-introduction, family members, name, country, occupation, phone number
    
4.  taxi, direction noun
    
5.  Today, tomorrow, yesterday, some place nouns
    
6.  What to do, some common verbs
    
7.  Time representation method, diary my day
    
8.  Day of the week, date
    
9.  Money, shopping, markets, supermarkets, fruits, vegetables, daily necessities, shopping malls, clothes, pants and shoes
    
10.  Go to catering industry, restaurants, cafes, bars
    
11.  Call to book an appointment, call to cancel an appointment, call to reserve a seat, call to deliver water, and tell the specific location of your home.
    
12.  Introduce your own room, front, back, left, right
    
13.  Ways of taking the means of transportation, time zone representation
    
14.  Talk about the weather
    

Divided by grammar:

1.  Be a guest, learn how to greet, polite words, usage of please, and ask questions with this pair of food. ——Subject-verb-object structure, adjective-predicate sentences, usage of "what", positive and negative interrogative sentences, usage of what, adverbs of simplicity
    
2.  Numbers, quantifiers, words and sentences, phone numbers - usage of quantifiers, pronunciation of numbers, words and sentences
    
3.  Meet friends, self-introduction, family members, name, country, occupation, phone number—the use of "de"
    
4.  To take a taxi, the noun of direction - "where"
    
5.  Today, tomorrow, yesterday, some place nouns—state of affairs, past continuous tense in the future, position of time nouns
    
6.  What to do, some common verbs
    
7.  Time representation method, diary my day
    
8.  Day of the week, date
    
9.  Money, shopping, markets, supermarkets, fruits, vegetables, daily necessities, shopping malls, clothes, pants and shoes——verb reduplication, "can" and "can" imperative sentences
    
10.  Go to catering industry, restaurants, cafes, bars
    
11.  Call to book an appointment, call to cancel an appointment, call to reserve a seat, call to deliver water, and tell the specific location of your home.
    
12.  Introduce your own room, front, back, left, and right—space nouns, existing sentences, and put words and sentences
    
13.  The way of taking transportation, the method of expressing the time period——time complement, how, frequency adverb
    
14.  Talk about the weather
    

The above content is the content of 50-60 hours of primary training:

Generally speaking, the above includes most of the commonly used life scenes. If you want to study for the next 50-60 hours, the content is similar, but the discussion content has deepened a lot, and the difficulty of vocabulary and grammar has also increased.

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