Learn Chinese with SMART Mandarin

SMART Mandarin is based in Hsinchu city, Taiwan.
We have a GREAT environment for learning Chinese
as you can see in our video :)

If you are a coffe & tea lover, and also would like to study Chinese!
You're welcoem to join us !!!
We offer
1. one on one Chinese lesson
2. small group Chinese lesson
3. online audio & video Chinese lessons
4. Skype Chinese lesson

for more information, please go to
www.smartmandarinchinese.com

How to Book Train Tickets with Taiwan Website in Chinese

How to Book Train Tickets with Taiwan Website in Chinese

In this lesson, you'll learn "How to Book Train Tickets with Taiwan Website in Chinese" STEP BY STEP.

And this is not just a language video, it's also a video teaching you how to travel in Taiwan with ease. :)

And if you don't have pinyin input on your computer, here is what you can do to install
http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/class_Detail.asp?id=341

Enjoy the lesson! :)

SMART Mandarin
- online audio&video lessons
- online Skype lesson
- one on one lesson
- small group lesson

How to Write "wo" (I;me) in Chinese?

Thanksgiving Giveaway!!!! 2016

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Thanksgiving Giveaway 2016!!!!

It's the end of the year again, and Thanksgiving is approach....

We would like to thank you for your subscription to our website and all your support, xiexie.  :)

And therefore, we are going to throw a Thanksgiving Giveaway Event so you get get  SMART Mandarin online audio + video lessons 1 year FOR FREE!!!

www.smartmandarinchinese.com

Here is what you can do to get free lessons !  

(Click HERE to see how)

Get 1 year FREE online audio + video subscription

Step 1 : go to Facebook

Step 2 : share one of your favorite video lesson from SMART Mandarin on FB

Step 3 : say why you like this video and what you expect to see in our video lesson in the future.

Step 4: Tag one of your friends who might be interested in this video

Step 5: DON'T forget to CHECK IN at SMART Mandarin, so we do know you share our video.

Thank you so much for the support and we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 

For those who don't have any Thanksgiving culture, we also would like to show you our gratitude for supporting and watching our lessons!

Thanks you (xie xie) :)

How to Say I don't know I can't

Chinese Skype Lesson- Vocabulary Review

This video is just simply to show how I review Chinese and how I teach in my online Sky[e lessons!

If you are interested in our lessons, please contact us here!

www.smartmandarinchinese.com
smartmandarinchinese@gmail.com (Katrina Lee）

- Chinese online audio & video lessons
- Chinese Skype lesson
- one on one class (in Hsinchu, Taiwan)
- small group class (in Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Chinese Survival Phrases!

In this video, you'll learn a lot of useful phrases in Chinese.
If you are interested in our lesson, please go to
www.smartmandarinchinese.com

How to Type Characters with Pinyin Input

How to Type Characters with Pinyin Input

Skype Lesson Demo How to Ask Questions in the Past in Chinese

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In this video, we're showing you how we conduct our Chinese Skype lesson with our students by teaching one of the most important Chinese grammar. 



We also have videos about this grammatical structure right here

http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/class_Detail.asp?id=266



If you are interested in having a Skype lesson with teacher Katrina Lee, please contact us here

http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/contact.asp



And if you are interested in all our audio & video lessons,

please check out our website

www.smartmandarinchinese.com



Our share this video, subscribe to our channel if you like our work!! :)



We hope to see you in class soon!



SMART Mandarin

Katrina Lee :) 

Chinese Finals - Yu Sound Group

Learn how to pronounce the "yu" sound in Chinese
and the YU group sounds! Check out the free demo
video lesson from SMART Mandarin.
http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/index.asp

Go to the webpage and scroll down to see the full lesson :)
Enjoy!

FREE Audio Lesson - Making Sentences with Measure Words!!!

FREE Audio Lesson - 

Making Sentences with Measure Words!!!

Do you know there're different counting words/ classifier / measure words in Chinese? 

Do you know how to use them properly?

Don't worry! We'll teach you step by step here!! 

Click here to learn from our FREE audio lesson

** This audio lesson is free, just log in with your account, then you can see it!

In this lesson, we're going to make sentences

with various measure words and nouns.

After the lesson, you'll be able to use measure words

into daily conversaions!

Check our previous audio lessons for more

measure words review

- Ordering food and measure word review

-Buying fruit and measure words review

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The Usage of 呢(ne) in Chinese

The Usage of 呢(ne) in Chinese

This year, we've already renewed all our video lesson- pronunciation series.
here

And the next project which we're doing right now is to renew all our audio lessons in order to give you a better quality of all the lessons!!!

If you can't watch our free video lessons or free audio lessons, just click here to creat you new SMART Mandarin account!!!

I can't wait to see you all in class!!!

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- one on one Chinese lesson
-small group Chinese lesson
-Skype lesson
-online video Chinese lesson

A Chinese Song lesson- SMART Mandarin

In this lesson, you'll learn a very practical song in Chinese 

" happy birthday". 

Learning Chines by music and songs is a lot of fun!



It can help you to remember your pronunciation of the vocabulary, and learn new structures from the songs! 



We hope you enjoy it!  :)



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- one on one Chinese lesson

-small group Chinese lesson

-Skype lesson

-online video Chinese lesson



Webpage :) 

www.smartmandarinchinese.com 

Chinese Co-verb Lesson

In this video, you'll see how I interact with my student in a real class, and how I teach Chinese co-verb "跟".(gen1)



If you are around lower-intermediate level, the text in this video might help you with learning more sentences in Chinese :)



We also made a series of video lessons of "Chinese co-verbs" , if you are interested, please click the link below or click HERE

http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/class_list.asp?class_Type=Lower%20Intermediate



Thank you for watching this video lesson!

If you are interested in having a lesson with us

Here is how you can contact teacher Katrina Lee

http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/contact.asp



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www.smartmandarinchinese.com

The Major Concerns & Advantage of Taking a Skype Chinese Lesson!

            
             The Major Concerns & Advantage 
             of Taking a Skype Chinese Lesson!

There are several major concerns of learning Chinese

via a Skype lesson which we've discussed in our

previous video. (Click HERE)

And in the post now, we're going to tell you the

GREAT advantage of having a Skype Chinese lesson!!

Click Here to watch!  

We hope both videos help you on deciding whether or not taking 

a Chinese lesson online and finding what you really need for

your improvement on Chinese

And here is a little bit about SMART Mandarin

that you might be interested to know....

SMART Mandarin (www.smartmandarinchinese.com)

1. 1 one 1 Skype lesson
2. small group or 1 on 1 lesson in Hsinchu city, Taiwan.
3. online audio & video Chinese lessons

For more free video lessons, please subscribe to our webpage www.smartmandarinchinese.com

SMART Mandarin

Katrina Lee

Learning Chinese via Skype? Good or No Good?

Learn Chinese via a Skype lesson? Good or No Good?

In this video, we share our point of views on the 3 major problems of learning Chinese via a Skype lesson.



If you are someone who is considering taking a Skype lesson with a Chinese tutor and need some advise on that, then this video might be helpful to you!



Enjoy!

SMART Mandarin​

Katrina Lee

SMART Mandarin Newest Video Lesson- Chinese Initials 3

SMART Mandarin Newest Video Lesson- 

Chinese Initials 3

Our latest video lesson is here- 

"Chinese Initials 3" (click here to see the full lesson)

In this lesson, you'll learn 7 initials and those are considered

challenging to pronounce.

Just follow our instruction and you'll be fine!

Enjoy the lesson!

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Chinese Tone Combinations 1

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SMART Mandarin Tones of Chinese

Watch our newest video lesson - Tones of Chinese 1



for more video lessons, please click HERE

SMART Mandarin Skype Chinese Lesson Introduction & Demo

SMART Mandarin Online Skype Lesson!!

Each session 23 USD (50 mins per session)
Bulk buy
5 sessions 115 USD
10 sessions 220 USD (with discount already)
15 sessions 315 USD (with discount already)
20 sessions 400 USD (with discount already)
Contact us here for more detail!
http://www.smartmandarinchinese.com/contact.asp
See our teaching style!
https://www.youtube.com/user/katrinasmartmandarin/videos

A New Chapter for SMART Mandarin!

A New Chapter for SMART Mandarin! 

EXCITING NEWS!!!!
SMART Mandarin webpage has a BRAND NEW LOOK !!
It's cleaner, more user-friendly, and nicer looking!!

webpage here!!
(www.smartmandarinchinese.com)

We're working on providing higher quality and budget friendly, video lessons for our online students so you can study Chinese 24/7 with us!!!!

Please don't hesitate to give us your support and comment, and we'll appreciate it so much!!

Click HERE to see our website tour video!

Our goal is to bring the classroom experience to our online lesson worldwide, so if you like us and like our teaching style, please do share our page (www.smartmandarinchinese.com) to people who need it!

Also I would like to take some take to THANK YOU for your subscription to us for all these time, we really appreciate your support and participation in our online lessons. We hope you can continue to join us in the future and improve your Chinese with our help!

加油Jiāyóu 

as we always do!!!

SMART Mandarin

Katrina Lee

New Video Lessons Uploaded!!

New Video Lessons Uploaded!! 

Dear Students,

We've uploaded two latest video lessons recently!

1.Using 把(bǎ) in Chinese 3 

In this lesson, you will learn how to use 把 in a Chinese structure and make sentences such as "Drive your car out of the house" " Drive your car into the house" ..etc.

2. Chinese Result Complement 1

In this lesson, you will learn a new concept of Chinese " Result Complement" to talk about a conclusion or the result of an action. 

We hope to see you in our lessons soon!

SMART Mandarin

Chinese Result Complement 1 - SMART Mandarin

Using 把(bǎ) in Chinese 4

Dear Students,

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use 把 with directional suffix, and make sentences such us,

1. Hang it up.
2. Take it down.
3. Hang up the Chinese painting.
4. Take down that Chinese painting.

Click Here to see the full video lesson

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Vegetarian Chinese!

Vegetarian Chinese

Since Buddhism is deeply rooted in Taiwanese culture, vegetarianism isn't a new concept in Taiwan.

Today we're going to touch on some useful vocabulary about vegetarianism in Chinese.

1. "I'm a vegetarian” is

    我吃素。 wǒ chīsù
   This means, " I eat vegetarian food" 
   The word "素 sù “ is a short form for "素食 sùshí”.

2. " vegetarian restaurant” is    

素食餐廳 sùshí canting

3. "I'm a vegan” is
   我吃全素。  wǒ chī quán sù
   The word 全quán means "whole; entire" 

4. Some Buddist vegetarians do not eat garlic, onions, or green onions.

So if you happen to be one of them, you might need to say
    我的素食請不要加蔥蒜，謝謝。
    wǒ de sùshí qǐng bùyào jiā cōng suàn, xièxiè

    This literally means, " Please don't add garlic and onions to my vegetarian food,

thank you."

5. If you are the kind of vegetarian who eats eggs and drink milk, then you can say:
    蛋奶素 dàn nǎi sù  （literary meaning egg, milk vegetarian food）
    You can tell people:    我吃蛋奶素 wǒ chī dàn nǎi sù
     which means, I'm a vegetarian who can have eggs and milk.

6. 鍋邊素  guō biān sù
  Literally means " pot side vegetarian". 
  It's a more casual vegetarian, who can share a pot of meat broth with people, but he/she     only picks the vegetables out of it.

So what type of vegetarian are you?  ;)

                                                                                             (Picture from Google)

We hope you find this interesting and helpful! 
Thanks for reading all the way through.

SMART Mandarin
Katrina Lee

Using 把（bǎ） in Chinese 2

                      Using 把（bǎ） in Chinese 2

把（bǎ）structure is one of the most frequently used 

structures in Chinese. 

Mastering how to use it, will make your daily speech of Chinese

sounds more natural to native speakers' ears!

In this lesson, you'll learn 

1. How to use 把(bǎ) structure with directional suffix

2. Make sentences like "Take the remote control 

    over to me" and "Take the remote control over there" 

    in this new structure.

Click HERE to see the full video lesson!

Enjoy!!

SMART Mandarin

Katrina Lee

Using 把（bǎ） in Chinese 1

Using 把（bǎ） in Chinese 1

把（bǎ）structure is one of the most frequently used structures in Chinese. 

Mastering how to use it, will make your daily speech of Chinese sounds more natural to native speakers' ears!

In this lesson, you'll learn 

1. How to use 把(bǎ) structure.

2. Make sentences like "I drank your tea." sentence

    in this new structure.

Click HERE to see our full video lesson!

See you in class!

SMART Mandarin

Katrina Lee

Action Completion in Chinese! by using 是……的（shì... de）

Action Completion in Chinese! by using 是……的（shì... de） 

When asking people Wh-questions about things that they have completed in

the past, here’s a structure that you need to know in Chinese -是……的（shì... de）

For instance, when a person says to you, “I bought a cup of coffee” you may ask,

“When did you buy the coffee?”, then the是……的（shì... de）structure is here

to help!

This is how we use the 是……的（shì... de）structure

n  I bought a cup of coffee.

我買了一杯咖啡

wǒ mǎile yībēi kāfēi

l  是+ Question Word + Verb + 的

Where did you buy your coffee?

你是在哪裡買咖啡的？

nǐ shì zài nǎlǐ mǎi kāfēi de

When did you buy your coffee?

你是什麼時候買咖啡的？

nǐ shì shénme shíhòu mǎi kāfēi de

For more details, please check out our video lesson 

Here!

Keep up the good work, and see you in cyberspace!

SMARTMandarin

Katrina Lee