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Learn Chinese online with Rocket Chinese
Whether you just want to learn a few Chinese words and phrases, or you want to go further, we’ve got the answers to all your Chinese language questions! We're talking great tools, great tips, audio lessons, and the inside word on how to speak Chinese confidently and understand the Chinese language quickly and effectively... Rocket Chinese has it all!
Right here you can practice your first Chinese conversation and listen to an interactive audio lesson. As a next step, sign up for our completely free, lifetime trial to unlock 10 full Chinese lessons. Learn Chinese online with Rocket Chinese and get your point across when traveling to a Chinese speaking country!
Practice Your Pronunciation With Rocket Record
Rocket Record lets you perfect your Chinese pronunciation. Just listen to the native speaker audio and then use the microphone icon to record yourself. Once you’re done, you’ll get a score out of 100 on your pronunciation and can listen to your own audio playback. (Use a headset mic for best results.) Problems? Click here!
欢迎
welcome
Resources for further reading:
Try it here with the transcript from one of our Audio Lessons:
Nǐ hǎoma?
How are you?
Wǒ hěnhǎo。Xièxie。Nǐne?
I'm very good. Thanks. What about you?
Wǒ yě hěnhǎo。Xièxie。
I'm also very good. Thanks.
Zàijiàn!
See you!
Zàijiàn!
Bye!
Rocket Record allows you to listen to the way native speakers say hundreds of Chinese words and phrases. Then you can record yourself and accurately compare your speech with that of the native speaker.
It really is a fantastic way to learn Chinese by increasing the amount of Chinese vocabulary you know, and at the same time massively improving your Chinese Mandarin pronunciation and accent. Rocket Record is great for your confidence!
Virtually every Chinese word and phrase in these lessons uses our Rocket Record voice comparison technology to get your pronunciation sounding as close as possible to a native Chinese speaker.
Remember What You Have Learned
Most of our Chinese lessons take advantage of the Testing section, which contains our exclusive testing tools. Testing has three testing components, Hear It! Say It!, Write It!, and Know It! all scientifically designed to enhance your recall and understanding of spoken Chinese.
1. Hear It! Say It!
Training your ear for Chinese can be one of the things that Chinese learners find the hardest to master. That’s why we came up with Hear It! Say It!
Here’s how Hear lt Say It! works. A randomly selected audio track from within each lesson is played. After listening to the track you’re prompted to record yourself saying the word, compare the way you say it to the Chinese speaker, and rate how well you understand what the speaker was saying. A very powerful tool to tune your ear to spoken Chinese!
Have a go with Hear It! Say It! here:
2. Write It!
It's one thing being able to pronounce Chinese words correctly, it's quite another figuring out how those sounds turn into written words.
Write It! is the self-testing tool that lets you find out how well developed your Chinese ear really is. Just listen to the native speaker saying a word or phrase, then try to write it correctly in the space provided. There's a special character keyboard available if you need it, so you can get it exactly right.
When you're done click reveal, and you get to see how well you did, and get a rating for that word or phrase.
Test your writing skills with Write It! here:
3. Know It!
Now, all the training in the world won’t help you if someone is talking to you in Chinese and your mind freezes when it’s your turn to speak! That’s why we developed Know It! The self-testing tool that really puts you on the spot!
Know It! pulls randomly selected English words and phrases out of each lesson and prompts you to record yourself saying the Chinese translation, compare yourself to the Chinese speaker, and then rate how well you did! You really need to know your stuff for this one but the benefits are huge in maximizing how quickly you can come up with the right thing to say when someone is speaking Chinese to you!
For a real challenge try out Know It!:
More on improving your Chinese pronunciation
Check out these lessons for the basics of Chinese and how to further improve your Chinese pronunciation.
Learn Chinese Words
Now you know how to use Rocket Record and Testing you can start learning Chinese with some basic Chinese lessons.
These Chinese word lessons from Rocket Chinese will help you to learn tons of basic Chinese words and improve your Chinese pronunciation. We’ve also included some useful vocabulary lists to help you learn Chinese for real-world situations!
Try these popular lessons:
- Counting in Chinese
- Chinese Hobbies
- Chinese seasons
- Months in Chinese
- Start learning more Mandarin Chinese words here
Learn Chinese Phrases
Once you’ve built up your vocabulary by learning some basic Chinese words, it’s time to move on to learning key Chinese phrases with some more of our Chinese lessons
Are you planning on traveling to a Chinese speaking country on vacation or business? Or perhaps you need to speak Chinese closer to home... Whatever the reason you can learn simple Chinese phrases for with these Chinese lessons from Rocket Chinese.
Make It Stick With Rocket Reinforcement
Reinforce your learning from this lesson with the Rocket Reinforcement activities!