Learn Chinese with Mike Absolute Beginner Coursebook Seasons 1 & 2

"It is definitely new, and it definitely works."

-Dr. Licheng Gu, Program Director, African & Asian Languages, Northwestern University

What do I get when I learn Chinese with Mike?

This ebook contains 10 video-based lessons and is part five of a series of six. It features audio and visual learning material and works best on tablets and smartphones.

Addictive learning

Mike Laoshi (Teacher Mike) will astound you with his unparalleled ability to make learning Mandarin Chinese fun and easy. Be warned, his teaching style is highly addictive, so if you have a family, career or social life, you may want to put those on hold for a little while.

Why Chinese with Mike?

Chinese with Mike is 100% new and breaks with traditional Chinese curricula. Mike's humour, mixed with his logical, step-by-step approach shields learners from the unnecessary complexities of Mandarin Chinese. Through a blend of short and highly addictive video lessons, you'll acquire essential Chinese with confidence. More importantly, you get a little one-on-one time with Mike, as he makes learning Chinese ridiculously easy-and fun!

What will I learn?

This is a solid foundation course that teaches you how to speak Chinese and also understand how the language fits together.

Season 1 Covers pinyin, the four tones and writing system using Simplified Chinese characters, common words, phrases and typical conversations. In no time you'll be able to talk about yourself, your family, your friends, your job, your home, your dogs and cats.

Season 2 If Season 2 wasn't included, you wouldn't be able to tell people you can speak Chinese, you like to play basketball, or you want to eat beef fried rice. More importantly, you wouldn't even know how to ask permission to use the bathroom! Without Season 2 you wouldn't get very far in life.

Why will learning Chinese be a breeze?

Mike builds confidence through his logical step-by-step design of the course

Mike explains pronunciation with clear, familiar examples

Mike adds interesting facts about the intricacies of language

Mike includes lots of cultural tidbits

Mike recognizes and explains thoroughly troublesome areas

Mike uses native speakers to help you with listening and speaking

Chinese with Mike is suitable for classroom, self-study or home schooling.

Praise for Mike

The coolest Chinese teacher out there. Totally rad!! confusedlaowai.com

Like a rock star teacher. Excellent for beginners. Entertaining too! socialmandarin.com

As an instructor, I have found Prof. Hainzinger's teaching material was

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ISBN: 9781444795875

Author: Mike Hainzinger

Pub date: 03.10.14

RRP: $80.00

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Mike Hainzinger

Mike started his teaching life as an English instructor in Taiwan. He went on to gain his Chinese Teaching Certificate from the Confucius Institute. He has since held posts teaching and developing course materials at the University of Chicago and Prairie State College. He currently teaches Mandarin Chinese at Joliet Junior College in Illinois. He's also a regular contributor at language teaching conferences. His other classroom is his garage at home where he shoots his addictive video lessons. From here a teaching phenomenon has grown to reach thousands of online fans around the world and winning him serious academic praise along the way.

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