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Mandarin Chinese

A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

50 lessons

Lesson 1The English word "the Lesson 2In Mandarin Chinese, 是 Lesson 3 Lesson 4"A/an" in English Lesson 5In English, "of Lesson 6The English preposition Lesson 7in, Lesson 8I Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 11have Lesson 12to Lesson 13 Lesson 14for, Lesson 15to do Lesson 16he/him Lesson 17A and B, Lesson 18on, Lesson 19this Lesson 20not Lesson 21we/us Lesson 22that Lesson 23but/however Lesson 24they/them Lesson 25to say, to speak, to tell Lesson 26to be (located) at/in Lesson 27what Lesson 28his Lesson 29from / since / through Lesson 30to go Lesson 31or Lesson 32by Lesson 33to get, to obtain, to receive Lesson 34she/her Lesson 35my/mine Lesson 36can Lesson 37 Lesson 38there Lesson 39all Lesson 40will Lesson 41who Lesson 42make Lesson 43when Lesson 44if Lesson 45time Lesson 46know Lesson 47take Lesson 48see Lesson 49to come Lesson 50than