A complete package to help you learn Chinese characters and pronunciation more effectively!
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A complete package to help you learn Chinese characters and pronunciation more effectively!
Scroll down for more info about each product.
Did you know that the drop-out rate for Chinese is FOUR TIMES HIGHER than for languages like Spanish and French? And that the two most common reasons given for dropping out are 1) the characters are hard to learn, and 2) pronunciation is difficult.
Our course bundle is designed to fix those two problems! You get a total character learning and pronunciation solution:
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Become an efficient, independent learner of Chinese characters
A 90-day online video course with supplemental material to teach you how to learn Chinese characters.
We've been teaching a course about how to learn Chinese characters at ICLP—one of the world's most prestigious Chinese language schools—for years. Now it's available to the public for the first time as an online course!
You'll get lifetime access to over a dozen video lessons about Chinese characters (simplified and traditional) and how to learn them, plus you'll learn:
Week 4: Form Components
Week 5: Meaning Components
Week 6: Sound Components
Week 7: Sound series (characters with the same sound component)
Week 8: Empty Components
Week 9: All about character meanings
Develop a good, clear accent in Mandarin at any stage of learning
In this online video course, you'll learn how to improve your Chinese pronunciation, how to develop a more native-like accent, and by the end of the course you will have mastered the art of acquiring a good accent—in any language!
You'll get access to 1-2 videos per lesson (15 lessons in all), plus supporting PDF and audio materials.
You'll get lifetime access to all 15 lessons about Chinese pronunciation and how to improve your accent. You'll also get:
Unit I: A "Sound" Foundation
Lesson 1: Building a “sound” foundation
Lesson 2: What to prioritize
Lesson 3: Stages of accent development
Unit II: Mandarin Pronunciation & Romanization
Lesson 4: Tones
Lesson 5: How to improve your tones
Lesson 6: The initials
Lesson 7: The finals
Lesson 8: Multi-syllable words I: Tone Change Rules
Lesson 9: Multi-syllable words II: Tonal Interaction
Lesson 10: Regional accents
Unit III: Developing your accent & fluency
Lesson 11: Chorusing
Lesson 12: Rhythm and intonation
Lesson 13: Grammar and sound patterns
Lesson 14: Shadowing
Lesson 15: Developing fluency
This course is aimed at all levels and does not require you to own or use any other products—it's entirely self-contained!
Each Semantic Components poster PDF contains:
These are hi-resolution, A1 size (59.4 x 84.1cm, 23.39 x 33.11 inches) PDF files available with both a simplified and traditional character focus (2 posters each), though both versions will contain both sets of characters.
"I bought this. It has helped me recognise and even pronounce characters I have never seen before thanks to my recognition of patterns from the explanations."
Soroush Torkian (Canada)
"After a lot (really a lot) of failed tests with different books, apps and methods, the only way that the hanzi sticks in my mind is ODCC's brief, concise and REAL explanation!"
Alessandro Agostinetti (Italy)
"This project is exactly what i was wishing for since i started learning Chinese with Pleco years ago."
Wieland Schultz (Germany)
"Every so often a really good resource comes along. It's The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters."
-Prof. Victor Mair
University of Pennsylvania
"I feel like I have a virtual 1-on-1 Chinese teacher, giving me a better sense of how the writing system functions."
-Dr. David Moser
Yenching Academy, Peking University
"They have put a lot of thought into how foreigners learn Chinese, and they’ve come up with a better way to learn characters."
-John Pasden
AllSet Learning & Mandarin Companion