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Mandarin Chinese for Beginners: Start Speaking from Day One — the free Preview

This page is the real first concept of Mandarin Chinese for Beginners: Start Speaking from Day One (Signature Course No. 362) — not a trailer and not a video. You work through Concept 1, “Pinyin and the Four Tones,” in a Socratic conversation with an AI coach: she asks before she teaches, builds on your own answers, and holds you to a mastery bar before the concept counts as done.

What this course teaches. Start speaking Mandarin from day one: a complete beginner's course in spoken Mandarin Chinese — pinyin and the four tones first, then first characters and the sentence patterns behind greetings, questions, counting, food, shopping, polite requests, past and future, and a real conversation carried from greeting to goodbye. No prior language study is assumed.

How the Preview works. Meet Sutton, our Head Coach, then request your free Preview key — it arrives by email in a moment. Pick your coach (Sutton, Alex, Caroline, Jack, Catherine, or Marcus), hear each one ask this concept’s first question, and begin. One concept, one five-minute conversation, coached exactly as enrolled learners meet it. When you’re ready for all 18 concepts, the full course is $195.

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