Get Speaking Mandarin Part 2 – Outlier Linguistics

Get Speaking Mandarin: Part 2

A course designed to get you speaking.

Listen and Repeat.

Build muscle memory and intuition.

Master intermediate Mandarin grammar and speak with confidence!

Use the discount code 'getspeaking2' to bring the price to $497 $397!

Get Speaking Mandarin: Part 2

A course designed to get you speaking.

Listen and Repeat.

Build muscle memory and intuition.

Master intermediate Mandarin grammar and speak with confidence!

Use the discount code 'getspeaking2' to bring the price to $497 $397!

For the Tongue-tied

If you struggle getting the words out, this course if for you! If you’re an intermediate learner (HSK 2-3 or equivalent), this course will get you where you need to go. If you're higher level but still have a hard time with speaking, then you'll be able to build up your inner database of correct sentences and get a more intuitive feel for the language, and lower the amount of thinking required to speak!

For Chinese Learners

Most language courses teach you "head knowledge." It’s like learning to play golf or do yoga by reading and memorizing books. This course is experiential. It’s like learning to play golf by actually practicing your golf swing, or learning yoga by actually doing the poses. The difference is huge!

Lifetime Access

Lessons will take place over an 18-week period, but like all of our courses, you'll be able to access all of the materials after it's finished. No need to stress about keeping up—you'll be able to go at a slower pace if you want!

What is “Get Speaking?”

  • In this course, you’ll learn to speak Mandarin by listening and repeating, thereby building your intuition. The sentences in the course embody the grammar needed for the HSK 2 test and part of HSK 3, and the most common 1000 words.
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  • After completing this course, you should be able to speak Mandarin correctly because it feels correct. You’ll have an intuitive grasp for the grammar. Grammar explanations will also be provided, but only after you’ve completed the audio lessons and repetition drills for those grammar points, making the explanations much easier to understand.
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  • You can also choose to not do the grammar lessons, and rely solely on your intuition (which comes from having listened to and repeated native speaker speech). Having said that, knowing the grammar explanations will help with test taking.

Course Highlights

  • Learn intermediate grammar and the most common 300 words through practical conversation, including:
      • • Talking about vacations
        • Discussing habits
        • Sharing interests and dreams
        • Making comparisons
        • Describing situations and telling stories
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  • Each lesson features an engaging dialogue, along with live Q&A sessions, and a choice of study maps depending on how aggressive you want to be with your study.

Reviews for the Get Speaking courses and method:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  • An entirely new approach to learning new language patterns and structures while developing speaking skills to a degree I would not have believed possible for a learner of my age, with as full a daily schedule as I have. These last two months have brought about nothing short of a revolution in my language learning.


Rick (Taiwan)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  • Through continuous repetition, the course has helped me to better understand what I am hearing and to produce the correct sounds when I speak. The course also gently takes you from very simple grammar and vocabulary to more complex sentences. Together with graded readers, this course has made the largest contribution to my improvement in speaking Chinese.”


Ricardo (Germany)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“I started this course by being very uncomfortable just by trying to pronounce very basic single words. The contents and scheduling are really optimum to smoothly make quick progress towards full sentences. My daily time management is always very constrained. This course allows me to easily practice daily with high efficiency with the very little free time I can find every day. If you want to be able to make progress despite your very busy life, this course is made for you.”


Pascal (Singapore)

Your Instructors

John Renfroe
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics

Before co-founding Outlier, John studied Linguistics and Paleography in the Graduate Institute of Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University. He co-founded and later ran the Taipei Classical Chinese Reading Group, a weekly reading group consisting mostly of graduate Sinology students from western universities. He also taught classical Chinese to members of the group who had no previous instruction in the language. His coursework and research focused on excavated Warring States bamboo texts, historical Chinese character morphology, and the Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 and its commentaries and criticism.

Dr. Ash Henson
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics

To say that Ash is a language enthusiast is an understatement. He speaks Dutch, Mandarin, Cantonese and German, all in varying states of decay. In addition to these, he has learned to some level or another another 7 languages and is currently working on Japanese and European Portuguese. He sees language learning as a chance to experiment. The goal is to find a better way (either getting the same result in a way that takes less time, or getting a better result). And he’s been at it for 30 years! He got his Ph.D. in Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University in paleography and historical linguistics. He was also in the P.hD. program for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language for six years. For his qualifying exams in that department, he had to learn functional grammar, cognitive grammar, case grammar, transformational grammar. So, we've definitely got you covered on the grammar front!

Christine Shen
Language Instructor

Christine is an experienced Chinese instructor with two master’s degrees in language teaching. Over her career, she has taught high-ranking managers in major companies, and she currently teaches diplomats, providing instruction from basic daily Chinese to advanced professional language. Her extensive background in language education and hands-on experience with diverse professional clientele allows her to offer tailored and practical lessons. She is passionate about helping students achieve fluency and confidence in Chinese, empowering them to excel in both personal and professional contexts.

 
Get Speaking Mandarin Part 2

Get Speaking Mandarin Part 2

Regular price $497.00 Sale

Use the discount code 'getspeaking2' to bring the price to $497 $397!