Conversational Chinese
Build confidence through practical dialogues, pronunciation exercises and real-life speaking scenarios.
- Speaking
- Listening
- Pronunciation
- Real conversations
This is the path for students who understand more than they can say. We spend most of the lesson with you talking, and I take notes instead of interrupting — then we fix things together at the end.
What the program covers
Fluency drills
Timed speaking tasks that push you to produce language faster than your inner translator can keep up.
Everyday scenarios
Restaurants, taxis, deliveries, phone calls, small talk with a neighbour, catching up with a friend.
Listening at real speed
Short clips of natural Chinese — including the contractions and swallowed syllables textbooks pretend don't exist.
Repair strategies
How to ask for a repeat, describe a word you don't know, and keep a conversation alive instead of apologising.
Pronunciation polish
Tone pairs, sentence stress and pausing — the things that make you sound fluent even with simple vocabulary.
Phrases from this program
怎么说？
Zěnme shuō?
How do you say it?
我想说的是…
Wǒ xiǎng shuō de shì…
What I mean is…
Buys you a few seconds to think, and sounds natural.
差不多
Chàbuduō
More or less / about right
真的吗？
Zhēn de ma?
Really?
Hear these — and say them back — in the free mini lesson.