Mandarin for English speakers
Learn Mandarin by ear.
Audio-first Mandarin lessons for English speakers — listen, read along, and practice in real scenes.
How to learn Mandarin
Listen first
Every lesson starts as audio. Train your ear with native pronunciation before you ever look at a character.
Read along
Toggle Hanzi, Pinyin, and English line by line while the audio plays — at exactly the moment you need it.
Practice in scenes
Role-play real conversations and drill vocabulary, then earn a certificate by passing each level's exam.
The textbook
Mandarin in Motion
Follow Mark through a year in Beijing across three volumes — from his very first 你好 to talking his way into an internship. Every lesson is a recorded dialogue you listen to first, with Hanzi, pinyin, and English you can toggle line by line, then a short practice set.
- • Volume 1 · First Months — greetings to everyday errands
- • Volume 2 · Settling In — fuller conversations and connectors
- • Volume 3 · Looking Ahead — opinions, nuance, and the road forward
Pass each volume’s exam for a certificate — and get all three PDF books free, emailed to you, with any paid plan.
Unit 1 · Arrivals
你好！我叫马克。你叫什么名字？
Nǐ hǎo! Wǒ jiào Mǎkè. Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?
Hello! I’m Mark. What’s your name?
我叫林涛。
Wǒ jiào Lín Tāo.
I’m Lin Tao.