Elementary Season 1 - ChineseClass101

Upper Intermediate

Elementary Season 1

The Elementary series is for students that are ready to break out of Beginner but aren't quite ready for Intermediate. In this 50-lesson season, you will learn essential grammar for meeting new people and working in China.

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50 Audio Lessons

The Resume

Learn how to tell people you have specific job skills

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• 9 Minutes

A Chinese Holiday Mix-up

Learn how to talk about dates and times

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• 10 Minutes

The Chinese Translator

Learn how to tell people where you are without getting your grammar wrong

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• 11 Minutes

Getting the Digits in China

Learn how to get someone's telephone number

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• 10 Minutes

Out of Your League

Learn two ways to add emphasis to different kinds of sentences

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• 10 Minutes

Love Hurts

Learn how to ask if someone has free time and how to express great satisfaction

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• 11 Minutes

The Oldest Trick in the Book

Learn the ins and outs of how to talk about lending and borrowing things

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• 13 Minutes

Going to the Movies in China

Learn a Chinese phrase that helps you express that something intensifies as another does too, with two patterns to express just this

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• 14 Minutes

A Chinese Massage

Learn a new preposition to express, "to come with"

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• 11 Minutes

Chinese Thumb Torture

Learn new adjectives to use when talking about heavy and light objects

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• 13 Minutes

The Unmerciful Chinese Hands

Learn a Chinese sentence pattern that tells someone to do as he or she pleases

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• 11 Minutes

That's the Spot in China

Learn how to give directions

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• 14 Minutes

The No Bargain Zone in China

Learn Chinese subject omission

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• 13 Minutes

The Newest Chinese Starbucks Locale

Learn Chinese how to form resultative verb complements and learn about the Forbidden City

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• 13 Minutes

Winter on the Great Wall

Learn measurements in Chinese, including length, size, and distance

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• 11 Minutes

Winter at the Summer Palace

Learn the Chinese adverb that means "always"

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• 10 Minutes

A Case of Mistaken Identity in China

Learn the Chinese translation to the word "then"

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• 10 Minutes

The Chinese Telemarketer

Learn a Chinese structural particle used to describe the way an action is carried out

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• 10 Minutes

The Cat That Fought Back in China

Learn some Chinese adverbs to indicate a higher degree

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• 11 Minutes

The Art of Using Chinese Chopsticks

Learn about a Chinese particle that relates to past experiences

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• 9 Minutes

The Wine and the Waitress in China

Learn a Chinese adverb that is used in a comparative degree and shows mental action

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• 10 Minutes

The Chinese Mystery Meat

Learn a Chinese adverb that indicates the same outcome, even though you are speaking of different circumstances

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• 9 Minutes

Chinese Ice Cream for Dessert

Learn more resultative verb complements, which are made up of two parts

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• 10 Minutes

Cleanliness in China

Learn how to reduplicate Chinese adjectives to add emphasis to the quality they describe

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• 10 Minutes

Rush Hour on the Beijing Metro

Learn a specific Chinese verb compliment, which when added to specific verbs may be tricky to catch

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• 10 Minutes

A Sinister Plot in China

Learn how to increase the difficulty level a small notch, which will also kick up our level of drama and excitement

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• 11 Minutes

Break and Enter

Learn how to get a visa or passport at a local embassy

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• 11 Minutes

Cracking the Safe

Learn a new verb complement and review some of the most common ways of saying "file", "document" and "case"

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• 10 Minutes

Team Player

Learn how to negotiate, argue, and debate

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• 12 Minutes

A Date Gone Wrong

Learn another way to emphasize what we are saying and also a new casual way to order drinks at a restaurant or bar

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• 11 Minutes

Pet Store Horrors

Learn a host of pet-related vocabulary, as well as a great grammar pattern for making lists of things you want or need

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• 11 Minutes

Ladies Night

Learn a good deal about deciding where to go for a date, and also interesting and useful vocabulary for the verbs "spend" and "save"

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• 12 Minutes

Whose Underpants?

Learn some verbs and nouns for dealing with laundry

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• 13 Minutes

The Dubbing Room

Learn how to create sentences that include descriptions of how long it took you to do something

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• 12 Minutes

The Heartbreaker

Learn different ways to talk about making money and passing time

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• 11 Minutes

What an Idiot!

Learn a very useful resultative verb complement you can use to describe the completion of an action

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• 11 Minutes

You Killed What?

Learn pet related vocabulary

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• 13 Minutes

Thanks for the Ride, Dad

Learn how to give an order

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• 15 Minutes

A Chinese Ghost Story

Learn a frightful load of useful vocabulary you can use in the run-up to Halloween

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• 12 Minutes

The Ambassador and the Head of Security

Learn all about the past continuous tense

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• 10 Minutes

The Opportunistic Break-up

Learn great new vocabulary that will get you talking about your feelings

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• 12 Minutes

Blowing off the Boss

Learn about times and dates

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• 10 Minutes

Hitting the Glass Ceiling

Learn a verb complement that we use to describe how you perceive the world with your five senses

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• 12 Minutes

Not Feeling Too Hot in China

Learn the most common words for describing cold and flu symptoms when you're feeling a little under the weather

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• 12 Minutes

Can You Take My Picture?

Learn the difference between a photo camera and a video camera

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• 12 Minutes

Living in Denial

Learn new vocabulary related to the human mind

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• 12 Minutes

Burning the Midnight Oil

Learn key Chinese vocabulary for talking about getting work done

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• 15 Minutes

I Can't Find My Glasses

Learn key Chinese vocabulary for talking about useful accessories like glasses and jewelry

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• 11 Minutes

The Overdrawn Welcome

Learn how to say "how long" and two different words that translate as "to live"

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• 13 Minutes

Your Father is Santa Claus?

Learn Christmas-related Chinese vocabulary

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• 13 Minutes