UNLOCKING CHINESE
UNLOCKING CHINESE IN 28 DAYS
YOUR GUIDE TO MAKING CHINESE EASY
MP3
LOGAN MURPHY
About the Author Logan Murphy was born and raised in Texas, where he lived his entire life. When he was 24 and had just graduated from the University of Texas, he decided to make a drastic change in his life, and set his mind on moving abroad for a year to learn a foreign language and travel the world. Settling on Taiwan, he arrived on the island with little knowledge of the locals, and even less knowledge of Chinese. What was supposed to be a one-year journey, however, became an extended stay as he fell in love with a local girl, his wife Ruby. Since then, Logan has immersed himself in Chinese language and culture, and after diving in has never looked back. Logan has recently moved back to Texas, bringing his five-year journey in Taiwan to an end, though not his journey with the Chinese language. His wife, Ruby, has also immigrated back with him and has just began her own journey. This work is the product of years of experiences and labour, and Logan sincerely wishes the best of success to all of you. -+ Sign up for Free Bonus resources here: www.eazychinese.com/lead1 www.eazychinese.com [email protected]
How To Use I've made this book very easy to follow along, I took out all of the guess work and provided you with a clear and concise curriculum. All you have to do is follow the plan, completing your lessons each day for the full 28 days(though feel free to spend a few days on each lesson, extending the duration of the program). This book is intended as a crash course for anyone looking to immerse themselves in Chinese. Use the book and take advantage of the MP3s and you will have all that you need to start speaking Mandarin Chinese. Now go get started! If you are buying this from Amazon or another site, please download your MP3 files here: If you get this from eazychinese.com it will contain the mp3 files already, but you can download them here also: Thank you so much! If you have any problems or questions about this book, please contact me here: [email protected]
Contents Week1 Day 1 - Saying hello Day 2 - Numbers Day 3 - I’m from Day 4 - I’m a... Day 5 - I like to... Day 6 - Put them to the question Day 7- Review
打招呼 數字 國籍 職業 興趣 問句
Day 8 - Home Day 9 - Community Day 10 - Directions Day 11 - City Day 12 - Transportation Day 13 - Countryside Day 14- The world
家裡 社區 方向 城市 交通 鄉下 世界
復習
Week2
Week 3 Day 15 - Food Day 16 - Shopping Day 17 - Checking out Day 18 - Eating out Day 19 - At the Night Market Day 20 - Dessert Day 21 - Review
食物 購物 結帳 外食 夜市 點心 復習
Week 4
Day 22 - Happy Birthday Day 23 - Happy New Year Day 24 - Moon festival Day 25 - Valentine’s Day Day 26 - Weddings Day 27 - Ghost Festival Day 28 - Review
生日 新年 中秋節 情人節 結婚 鬼月 復習
Please download your worksheet here: www.eazychinese.com/mp3
Week 1 Me First, Me First! In this unit, we will be doing what your mother always taught you not to: be selfish. "What?" you say, hand raised to your mouth, shocked, feeling queazy. "I'm not the Sun, the world doesn't revolve around me!" But seriously, jokes aside, if you think about it, this shouldn't really surprise you. When you were a child and first learning your own native language, you WERE selfish. They call it being egocentric,which basically means that children really do think that the Earth revolves around them. They are the Sun, and if you try to tell them otherwise, you'll get burned! So unless you want me to knock you out of orbit, you better listen up(sorry, that was my inner child speaking). When you begin learning a second language, it's like you're Benjamin Button and you are magically transforming into a baby again, so all of the rules apply just the same as they did when you learned your primary language, whatever that may be(I'm not going to assume its English, I know better). So be selfish, it's okay. Because it's all about you, at least in the beginning. So what's the first thing you should learn when you are beginning Chinese? I'll give you a hint: look in the mirror. See that handsome guy/pretty gal? It's YOU!
Week 1
Day1 Hi, my name is... Being able to introduce yourself is an important skill, and not everyone can even do so in their native tongue, much less their second language! So this is where we begin. After all, when you engage someone in conversation, you introduce yourself first, right? Don't worry, by the end of this chapter, you'll have mastered the most basic way to do this in Mandarin Chinese which is the first step to getting your ability and self confidence to where it needs to be for having full-blown conversations. Ready or not, here it goes! Grammar Note: We are not going to be spending too much time on grammar at this point, as that can be counter-productive(you need to just speak, and you won't do that if you’re always worried about saying something wrong...you didn't worry about grammar when you were a kid learning your own language, right?), but I would like to make a note of simple sentence structure. For example, In the sentence below:
＂我是羅根。＂我 is the subject 是 is the verb and 羅根 is the object. So, as you can see, at the most basic of levels, Chinese grammar is very similar to that of English. This will not always be the case, and I'll bring that to your attention as it comes up. For now, just get back to speaking!
打招呼 Saying hello
繁體中文
Day 1
Usually a conversation is proceeded by a greeting of some kind. So, first, I will teach you a handful of the most common greetings in the Chinese language.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
你好
你好
nĭ hăo
Hello
早安
早安
zăo ān
Good morning
午安
午安
wŭ ān
Good afternoon
你吃飽了嗎？
你吃饱了吗？
Traditional Chinese
我很高興認識你 我很高兴认识你
nĭ chī băo le ma？ Have you eaten? wŏ hèn gāo xìng rèn shí nĭ
Nice to meet you.
介紹 Introductions
Day 1
Okay, so now that you know how to greet someone in Mandarin, what will you do next? Just stand there looking pretty? You need to be able to introduce yourself! Here are some common ways to do that.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Traditional Chinese
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是...
我是...
wŏ shì
I am...
我叫...
我叫...
wŏ jiào
I'm called...*
我姓
我姓
wŏ xìng
My family name is.
繁體中文
我的名字是
我的名字是
wŏ de míng zì shì
* : Note: This is used like English my name is...
My name is
數字 numbers
繁體中文
Day 2
Alright, first thing is first. We're going to teach you how to count in Mandarin. Don't worry, it's easy! Let's start with 1-10.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
一
一
yī
One
二
二
èr
Two
三
三
sān
Three
四
四
sì
Four
五
五
wŭ
Five
六
六
liù
Six
七
七
qī
Seven
八
八
bā
Eight
九
九
jiŭ
Nine
十
十
shí
Ten
Traditional Chinese
數字 Numbers
Day 2
Got it down? I told you it was easy right? So now, based on what you just learned, I'm going to instruct you on how to count from 1 - 100. It sounds harder than it is, but it's really very simple, especially building off the base we just built. 簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
十一
十一
shí yī
eleven
十二
十二
shí èr
twelve
十三
十三
shí sān
thirteen
十四
十四
shí sì
fourteen
十五
十五
shí wŭ
fifteen
十六
十六
shí liù
sixteen
十七
十七
Shí qī
seventeen
十八
十八
shí bā
eighteen
十九
十九
shí jiŭ
nineteen
二十
二十
èr shí
twenty
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Note how the numbers from 11-19 are formed simply by placing the number 1-9 after a ten. Easy! And from 20-90 it's basically the same, though now you're adding a 1-9 in front of the ten for numbers like 20, 30, 40, etc. After that, you just need to tag a 1-9 to the back of that to make the in between numbers. So 21 would be 二十一 , and so on. 100 is formed much the same way as 21. All we do is slap a 1 in front of 百 băi (the Chinese unit for 100) and we have 100. That looks like this: 一百. So now you basically can count to 999 with no trouble in Mandarin! That's not the point of this lesson however(more on numbers in the future). So let's take that knowledge and apply it to our conversation we're having with our new best buddy. And we're going to do that by telling them how old we are. I, being 30 years of age would say "我三十歲". 歲 suì being the Chinese measure word for years.
Grammar note Chinese has tons of measure words, each to be used with certain words. Think about it like this: measure words are like a/an in English. "I have an apple", for example would be "我有一顆蘋果", 顆 kē being the measure word for round objects. 蘋果 píng guŏ isChinese for apple, FYI. You'll learn these as you go along, but when in doubt just use the measure word "個 gè" because that works 90% of the time. So just to review, I'm...years old = 我......歲。
國籍 I’m from
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Day 3
So now they know your name and your age, what do you tell them next? How about where you come from? I'm just going to give you a handful of examples, as this is a topic that deserves to be expanded into a chapter of its own. So, sorry if your country isn't on this list, email me if that is the case and I'll make a special report on the ones that were left out.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是....
我是....
wŏ shì..
I'm a...
美國人
美国人
mĕi guó rén
American
英國人
英国人
yīng guó rén
English
加拿大人
加拿大人
jiā ná dà rén
Canadian
澳洲人
澳洲人
ào zhōu rén
Australian
法國人
法国人
fă guó rén
French
國籍 I’m from
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Grammar Note:
The nationalities above are formed by adding the word 人 after the country's name. So 美國人 is something like "person of America", but we'd translate that as "American". Chinese, so simple yet so precise, you gotta love it!
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是....
我是....
wŏ shì..
日本人
日本人
rì bĕn rén
Japanese
中國人
中国人
zhōng guó rén
Chinese
台灣人
台湾人
tái wān rén
Taiwanese
韓國人
韩国人
hán guó rén
Korean
西班牙人
西班牙人
xī bān yá rén
Spanish
我是美國人
I'm a...
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YOUR GUIDE TO MAKING CHINESE EASY
MP3
LOGAN MURPHY
About the Author Logan Murphy was born and raised in Texas, where he lived his entire life. When he was 24 and had just graduated from the University of Texas, he decided to make a drastic change in his life, and set his mind on moving abroad for a year to learn a foreign language and travel the world. Settling on Taiwan, he arrived on the island with little knowledge of the locals, and even less knowledge of Chinese. What was supposed to be a one-year journey, however, became an extended stay as he fell in love with a local girl, his wife Ruby. Since then, Logan has immersed himself in Chinese language and culture, and after diving in has never looked back. Logan has recently moved back to Texas, bringing his five-year journey in Taiwan to an end, though not his journey with the Chinese language. His wife, Ruby, has also immigrated back with him and has just began her own journey. This work is the product of years of experiences and labour, and Logan sincerely wishes the best of success to all of you. -+ Sign up for Free Bonus resources here: www.eazychinese.com/lead1 www.eazychinese.com [email protected]
How To Use I've made this book very easy to follow along, I took out all of the guess work and provided you with a clear and concise curriculum. All you have to do is follow the plan, completing your lessons each day for the full 28 days(though feel free to spend a few days on each lesson, extending the duration of the program). This book is intended as a crash course for anyone looking to immerse themselves in Chinese. Use the book and take advantage of the MP3s and you will have all that you need to start speaking Mandarin Chinese. Now go get started! If you are buying this from Amazon or another site, please download your MP3 files here: If you get this from eazychinese.com it will contain the mp3 files already, but you can download them here also: Thank you so much! If you have any problems or questions about this book, please contact me here: [email protected]
Contents Week1 Day 1 - Saying hello Day 2 - Numbers Day 3 - I’m from Day 4 - I’m a... Day 5 - I like to... Day 6 - Put them to the question Day 7- Review
打招呼 數字 國籍 職業 興趣 問句
Day 8 - Home Day 9 - Community Day 10 - Directions Day 11 - City Day 12 - Transportation Day 13 - Countryside Day 14- The world
家裡 社區 方向 城市 交通 鄉下 世界
復習
Week2
Week 3 Day 15 - Food Day 16 - Shopping Day 17 - Checking out Day 18 - Eating out Day 19 - At the Night Market Day 20 - Dessert Day 21 - Review
食物 購物 結帳 外食 夜市 點心 復習
Week 4
Day 22 - Happy Birthday Day 23 - Happy New Year Day 24 - Moon festival Day 25 - Valentine’s Day Day 26 - Weddings Day 27 - Ghost Festival Day 28 - Review
生日 新年 中秋節 情人節 結婚 鬼月 復習
Please download your worksheet here: www.eazychinese.com/mp3
Week 1 Me First, Me First! In this unit, we will be doing what your mother always taught you not to: be selfish. "What?" you say, hand raised to your mouth, shocked, feeling queazy. "I'm not the Sun, the world doesn't revolve around me!" But seriously, jokes aside, if you think about it, this shouldn't really surprise you. When you were a child and first learning your own native language, you WERE selfish. They call it being egocentric,which basically means that children really do think that the Earth revolves around them. They are the Sun, and if you try to tell them otherwise, you'll get burned! So unless you want me to knock you out of orbit, you better listen up(sorry, that was my inner child speaking). When you begin learning a second language, it's like you're Benjamin Button and you are magically transforming into a baby again, so all of the rules apply just the same as they did when you learned your primary language, whatever that may be(I'm not going to assume its English, I know better). So be selfish, it's okay. Because it's all about you, at least in the beginning. So what's the first thing you should learn when you are beginning Chinese? I'll give you a hint: look in the mirror. See that handsome guy/pretty gal? It's YOU!
Week 1
Day1 Hi, my name is... Being able to introduce yourself is an important skill, and not everyone can even do so in their native tongue, much less their second language! So this is where we begin. After all, when you engage someone in conversation, you introduce yourself first, right? Don't worry, by the end of this chapter, you'll have mastered the most basic way to do this in Mandarin Chinese which is the first step to getting your ability and self confidence to where it needs to be for having full-blown conversations. Ready or not, here it goes! Grammar Note: We are not going to be spending too much time on grammar at this point, as that can be counter-productive(you need to just speak, and you won't do that if you’re always worried about saying something wrong...you didn't worry about grammar when you were a kid learning your own language, right?), but I would like to make a note of simple sentence structure. For example, In the sentence below:
＂我是羅根。＂我 is the subject 是 is the verb and 羅根 is the object. So, as you can see, at the most basic of levels, Chinese grammar is very similar to that of English. This will not always be the case, and I'll bring that to your attention as it comes up. For now, just get back to speaking!
打招呼 Saying hello
繁體中文
Day 1
Usually a conversation is proceeded by a greeting of some kind. So, first, I will teach you a handful of the most common greetings in the Chinese language.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
你好
你好
nĭ hăo
Hello
早安
早安
zăo ān
Good morning
午安
午安
wŭ ān
Good afternoon
你吃飽了嗎？
你吃饱了吗？
Traditional Chinese
我很高興認識你 我很高兴认识你
nĭ chī băo le ma？ Have you eaten? wŏ hèn gāo xìng rèn shí nĭ
Nice to meet you.
介紹 Introductions
Day 1
Okay, so now that you know how to greet someone in Mandarin, what will you do next? Just stand there looking pretty? You need to be able to introduce yourself! Here are some common ways to do that.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Traditional Chinese
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是...
我是...
wŏ shì
I am...
我叫...
我叫...
wŏ jiào
I'm called...*
我姓
我姓
wŏ xìng
My family name is.
繁體中文
我的名字是
我的名字是
wŏ de míng zì shì
* : Note: This is used like English my name is...
My name is
數字 numbers
繁體中文
Day 2
Alright, first thing is first. We're going to teach you how to count in Mandarin. Don't worry, it's easy! Let's start with 1-10.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
一
一
yī
One
二
二
èr
Two
三
三
sān
Three
四
四
sì
Four
五
五
wŭ
Five
六
六
liù
Six
七
七
qī
Seven
八
八
bā
Eight
九
九
jiŭ
Nine
十
十
shí
Ten
Traditional Chinese
數字 Numbers
Day 2
Got it down? I told you it was easy right? So now, based on what you just learned, I'm going to instruct you on how to count from 1 - 100. It sounds harder than it is, but it's really very simple, especially building off the base we just built. 簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
十一
十一
shí yī
eleven
十二
十二
shí èr
twelve
十三
十三
shí sān
thirteen
十四
十四
shí sì
fourteen
十五
十五
shí wŭ
fifteen
十六
十六
shí liù
sixteen
十七
十七
Shí qī
seventeen
十八
十八
shí bā
eighteen
十九
十九
shí jiŭ
nineteen
二十
二十
èr shí
twenty
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Note how the numbers from 11-19 are formed simply by placing the number 1-9 after a ten. Easy! And from 20-90 it's basically the same, though now you're adding a 1-9 in front of the ten for numbers like 20, 30, 40, etc. After that, you just need to tag a 1-9 to the back of that to make the in between numbers. So 21 would be 二十一 , and so on. 100 is formed much the same way as 21. All we do is slap a 1 in front of 百 băi (the Chinese unit for 100) and we have 100. That looks like this: 一百. So now you basically can count to 999 with no trouble in Mandarin! That's not the point of this lesson however(more on numbers in the future). So let's take that knowledge and apply it to our conversation we're having with our new best buddy. And we're going to do that by telling them how old we are. I, being 30 years of age would say "我三十歲". 歲 suì being the Chinese measure word for years.
Grammar note Chinese has tons of measure words, each to be used with certain words. Think about it like this: measure words are like a/an in English. "I have an apple", for example would be "我有一顆蘋果", 顆 kē being the measure word for round objects. 蘋果 píng guŏ isChinese for apple, FYI. You'll learn these as you go along, but when in doubt just use the measure word "個 gè" because that works 90% of the time. So just to review, I'm...years old = 我......歲。
國籍 I’m from
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Day 3
So now they know your name and your age, what do you tell them next? How about where you come from? I'm just going to give you a handful of examples, as this is a topic that deserves to be expanded into a chapter of its own. So, sorry if your country isn't on this list, email me if that is the case and I'll make a special report on the ones that were left out.
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是....
我是....
wŏ shì..
I'm a...
美國人
美国人
mĕi guó rén
American
英國人
英国人
yīng guó rén
English
加拿大人
加拿大人
jiā ná dà rén
Canadian
澳洲人
澳洲人
ào zhōu rén
Australian
法國人
法国人
fă guó rén
French
國籍 I’m from
繁體中文 Traditional Chinese
Grammar Note:
The nationalities above are formed by adding the word 人 after the country's name. So 美國人 is something like "person of America", but we'd translate that as "American". Chinese, so simple yet so precise, you gotta love it!
簡體中文
拼音
英文
Simplified chinese
Pinyin
English
我是....
我是....
wŏ shì..
日本人
日本人
rì bĕn rén
Japanese
中國人
中国人
zhōng guó rén
Chinese
台灣人
台湾人
tái wān rén
Taiwanese
韓國人
韩国人
hán guó rén
Korean
西班牙人
西班牙人
xī bān yá rén
Spanish
我是美國人
I'm a...
If you enjoyed this sample and are interested in completing the full 28 Day course, then get your full copy here for $5 off! Use coupon "ezchinese10" But hurry, because the offer ends in 7 days! https://gumroad.com/l/Wycz
