Business meeting Chinese for English speakers
Useful Mandarin phrases for starting meetings, clarifying next steps, and sounding polite without becoming stiff.
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Mandarin Loop helps English speakers learn simplified Chinese with pinyin tones, clickable audio, English translations, daily phrases, business dialogues, chengyu stories, and a local-only practice loop.
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Pinyin
Initials, finals, tones, tone pairs, neutral tone, and common English-speaker pronunciation traps.
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Characters
2,000+ simplified Chinese characters with pinyin, English meanings, examples, and clickable audio.
Useful chunks
Phrases
Daily phrases,口头禅, business expressions, travel language, and confusable word pairs.
Real scenes
Dialogs
Daily, travel, restaurant, social, workplace, meeting, and messaging dialogues with line-by-line help.
Stories that stuck
Chengyu
Chinese idiom stories with literal meaning, modern usage, English equivalents, and example sentences.
Say it naturally
Translator
Curated English-to-Chinese patterns showing literal, natural, polite, and business-ready Mandarin.
Retention loop
Practice
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High-frequency Hanzi ordered by HanziDB/Jun Da data, with CC-CEDICT readings and curated examples.
的 de possessive particle; used after a modifier, like 's or of 一 yī one; a, an; alone 是 shì indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that 不 bù no, not; un-; negative prefix 了 le completed-action or change-of-state particle 在 zài to be at; in; on; currently doing something 人 rén man; people; mankind; someone else 有 yǒu have, own, possess; exist
Featured lessons
Original teaching pages, not just raw dictionary output dressed up with CSS.
会, 能, 可以: three ways to say can in Chinese
Learn the difference between 会, 能, and 可以 with examples, pinyin, English translations, and usage notes.
I can speak Chinese, but I cannot go today.The pinyin fade method for learning Chinese characters
A practical method for using pinyin early without becoming dependent on it forever.
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