Learn Mandarin Chinese with Loquus
This Loquus course is Mandarin Chinese. Work with characters, pinyin readings, and audio as you learn words and practice replies. The Dictionary and Grammar Center help you return to something unfamiliar, whether it is a pronunciation, a measure word, or the order of a sentence.
Start with a greeting. Keep going from there.
Pinyin represents Mandarin pronunciation using Latin letters and tone marks. Read it together with the audio and the Chinese characters in a word entry. Listen to the whole word, then try it aloud, paying attention to tone as well as the consonants and vowels.
A Chinese word may contain one character or several, so keep meaning and context close as you read. Use the Dictionary to revisit entries and their available examples. Review words you have learned, then notice where the same characters appear in another phrase you encounter.
Mandarin often expresses meaning through word order, particles, and context rather than verb endings. Grammar Center explains patterns such as questions and measure words. Compare the examples and take one pattern back to your practice instead of trying to translate an English sentence word for word.
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Chapters on your journey
71
Grammar Center topics
58
Authored conversations
See it in the app
Real screens from the first day of the Mandarin Chinese course in the iPhone app.
Open the app and today’s session is waiting. The Mandarin Chinese course begins with Sounds & First Contact, and the first lesson is Greetings & Introductions.
Your first word is 你好 (nǐ hǎo), meaning hello. Each new word comes with its meaning and audio at normal or very slow speed, plus a reading in Latin letters.
Right after a new word, you repeat it after the voice. This is called shadowing, and it builds speaking habits from your very first lesson.
Explore the course’s writing and sound reference. Tap an entry to hear it.
Grammar Center explains how Mandarin Chinese works, with topics like No Endings to Learn and Basic Word Order.
A first taste
Tap a word to hear it, at normal speed or slowly.
Your path
The full course has 35 chapters. Your journey shows your progress in each one.
Grammar Center
A few of the topics you can open anytime, before or after you reach them in a lesson.
Alphabets & sounds
Tap an entry to hear it. Explore the writing and sound references included in this course.
In the app, start with three free lesson starts a day. Reference tools are included in free access. Loquus Plus adds unlimited lesson starts, section reviews, capstones and Arcade games.
14 languages. Your next step.
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