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600 Video-Lessons: See What You Hear!

 

Screenshot of a video with professional Chinese actors on which one sees what he hears. She points at the number 3. She says in Chinese: This is number 3.  Screenshot of a video with professional Chinese actors on which one sees what he hears. She points at a red light. He asks: What is a red light?

Screenshot of a video with professional Chinese actors on which one sees what he hears. She shows part of her bra. She says: I wear a bra.  Screenshot of a video with professional Chinese actors on which one sees what he hears. He taps on a glass which produces a sound of glass. He says in Chinese: This glass is made of glass.

 

 

 

1. What You Find in the Video-Lessons-Part of Lenaia.com

 

1. You find 600 little 1-minute-videos with 4 to 6 simple Chinese sentences. They are all made with professional young actors which speak Chinese very clearly.

 

2. You find 600 tables which provide all the information which you need to fully understand the content of the lessons.

 

3. For every sentence, you find 7 little exercises which enable you to practise every aspect of a sentence.

 

4. Every character in the video-lessons-part is a link to the page of the character.

 

 

 

2. What You Find on One Page

 

Screenshot of a page with a video-lesson. Sentences: 我可以走，我可以跑，我可以跳。. I can walk, I can run, I can jump. 我能上去。. I am able to go up. 我能下去。. I am able to go down. 我能跑上去。. I am able to run up. 我能跑>下去。. I am able to run down. 我能跳下。. I am able to jump down. Navigation: Levels/Books. Chapters. Lessons. Link to exercise of one sentence. In a table, all information is presented to fully understand the content of the lesson. There is a row for the Chinese characters, a row for the Chinese Pinyin (pronunciation), a row for the basic meanings of the characters, a row for the words which are composed of several characters and a row with the English sentences.

 

 

In the first row of the table, there are the chinese characters. Every character is a link to the picture-story-page of the character.

 

In the second row of the table, you find the Pinyin (pronunciation) of the character.

 

In the third row, you see the basic meanings of the characters. If you know the basic meanings of the characters, it is often easy to guess the meaning of a Chinese word which is composed of several characters. E.g.: The basic meanings "under" and "go" make up the phrase "go down".

 

In the fourth row, you see the English translation of the Chinese words.

 

In the fifth row, you find the English translation of the entire sentence.

 

 

 

3. What You Find in the Exercises to the Sentences

 

 

Screenshot of a page with the exercises to the sentence: 我能上去。. I am able to go up. You see the seven different multiple choice exercises. 1. Chinese Pinyin - English word. 2. Chinese character - English word. 3. English word - Chinese Pinyin. 4. English word - Chinese character. 5. Spoken Chinese on audiofile - Chinese Pinyin. 6. Spoken Chinese on audiofile - Chinese character. 7. Spoken Chinese on audiofile - English word.

 

The exercises help you to closely look at the sentence. You can do all of them or just one or two. They are basically little multiple-choice tests. You look at the words on the left, find the corresponding part on the right and tick the box with the respective number. Then you can check your answers by clicking on on "Check anwers".

 

 

 

4. How to Learn with the Video-Lessons

 

1. Open the page of a lessons, press the flash-player-play-button and then the pause-button! Give the video time to download!

 

2. Open a new window in the browser and go to the page of the same lesson! So, you don't interupt the video-download when you open links on the page.

 

3. Study the big table with all the information about the lesson!

 

4. Click on the E besides a sentence! Go through the exercises to the sentences!

 

5. Go back to the page on which you are downloading the video and watch the video several times while you parrot everything what you hear.

 

6. Look at the Chinese characters while you watch the video and parrot what you hear.

 

 

 

5. Introductory Video to the Video-Lessons-Part of Lenaia.com

 

In this video you get an introduction to the structure of the video-lessons-part and the sentence-exercises.

 

Please watch the videos to the five parts (books) of this website in the following sequence:

 

1. Introduction to the Chinese Language

 

2. Chinese Radicals

 

3. Chinese Characters and Picture-Stories

 

4. Chinese Pronunciation

 

5. Chinese Grammar

 

6. Chinese Lessons

 

If your download-speed is too slow, start the video, press the pause-button and wait for a few minutes before you press play again. In the meantime, the video is downloaded. Thank you!

 

 

Thank you for learning Chinese with us!

 

 

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