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2 Select Courses
1) Needs Analysis / Study Plan
From home page click 
to enter “Needs Analysis”, follow the directions to fill out the form, then click 
. According to what you filled in for “Study Purpose” and “Chinese Level” we will recommend a “Study Plan” for you, then you may select what you want to purchase.
Includes four parts:“Video Courses” “Live Tutors” “Online Tools” “Books”
(2) Live Tutors
Learn Chinese with your own expert Mandarin teacher, anytime, anywhere!
With Ninhao's Live Tutors service, you can be taught Chinese by a professional Chinese teacher in Beijing, from the comfort of your home. 1-1 speaking practice lessons on your preferred service (Skype) will allow you to improve your Chinese quickly at your convenience.
(3) Online tools
Ninhao's tools help you review vocabulary covered in lessons, and allows you to ask our professional teachers questions.
Online Q&A
Professional teacher support for any questions you have about Chinese. Our teachers will responds to your question within 1 business day.
3 Add to My Study Plan
For paid courses click “Buy Now” to order.
1) Page “Checkout”:
Check the amount for the courses. Then, fill in the billing information and choose your payment method.
2）After your payment is successful we will notify you. Then, you can click on “My study plan” to check the courses which you have purchased and start learning.
4 Check your progress through “My Study Plan”
“My Study Plan” is the tool to track your learning progress but can only be used after you successfully add courses by clicking “Free” or “Subscribe”.
“My Study Plan” records the courses that you have learned, tracks your learning progress, records lesson test scores and has a subscription expiration reminder. Also, you can check the learning history in “History” to help you plan your learning.
5 PRETEST、Learning tools
1)”Pre-test” is the tool to help you to test your Chinese level. There are 5 levels. (Beginner / Elementary / Intermediate / Advanced / Native).
2) Learning tools ( Word list / Notes )
The Learning Tools section includes My Word List and My Phrases, two sections that will enable you to save the Chinese words and sentences from the lessons that you wish to review later.
My Word List is a place to save vocabulary for later review. In each lesson, as you’re going through the vocabulary, you’ll be able to click on a button next to each word to save it to a convenient place that you’ll easily be able to refer to at any time. Your saved words will be presented with Chinese characters, Pinyin, and their English meanings. There’s also a button you can click to hear the standard Mandarin pronunciation.
(2) My Phrases
This section will save the phrases you choose so that you can review them later. In each lesson, you’ll see plenty of dialogs and example uses of vocabulary. These can all be saved to My Phrases. These sentences are all presented in Chinese characters and Pinyin along with their English meanings. Also, there’s a button you can click on to hear the sentence pronounced correctly in Mandarin.
6 Courses DescriptionSample lessons
Pinyin is the basic foundation for all Chinese learning. It teaches students how to pronounce Chinese through phonetic spelling with the English alphabet. Without Pinyin, you won't be able to learn how to properly pronounce Chinese characters, so this is the absolute must-do course for those starting to learn Mandarin Chinese.
The Chinese writing system is completely different from the English writing system. English and other Western languages use the Latin alphabet and are largely phonetic, which means words are pronounced as they are written. Chinese, on the other hand, has no alphabet. Instead, it uses characters, which is called Hànzì.
The Basic Conversation course is for those who have a firm grasp on Pinyin and are ready to move on to simple conversations about basic topics such as how to say "Hello" and "Thank you" and moving up to other basic topics like asking the time and how old someone is. All topics are fundamental and practical. Each lesson will introduce new words and include a downloadable video or mp3 lesson.
Daily Chinese is for students who have studied Chinese for at least 50 hours, have mastered the basics of Chinese pinyin, and have a vocabulary of about 300 Chinese words. This unit focuses on the daily lives of Chinese people. Through relaxed-paced and interesting dialogues, you will learn authentic spoken Chinese on topics such as music, pets, travel, sports, dating, and so on.
Survival Chinese is for those who have studied Chinese for at least 50 hours, understand the basics of Chinese pinyin, and have mastered about 300 Chinese words. This unit deals with a good deal of situations facing foreigners living in China with the most useful words and sentence patterns. Topics include exchanging money, buying a phone card, seeing a doctor, taking a cab, and so on.
ninhao Kids Chinese is is a Mandarin Chinese cartoon video series for children, or adults, learning the basics of Mandarin. After going through the 100 lessons, you will have a good command of 800 words, 60 grammatical points & word structures, and 190 daily conversations. Lesson topics include going to see a doctor, asking about ages, bargaining, travelling and more.
7 Groups
Ninhao.com has set up official Groups that are related to the Courses. Here, users can conveniently discuss topics related to the Course. You can find the groups in the “Group” section, under “Community.” And teachers will reply to users’ questions.
After choosing the “Group” which you are interested in, you can then ask questions, share what you learned from the lesson and/or your learning experience.
8 Travel
Experience China’s various famous scenic places through our pictures and brief introductions. At the same time you will also understand each place’s culture and food. With an understanding of China’s local conditions you will love China. It’ll also stimulate your affection for studying Chinese. Here we will supply plenty of helpful travel information for your travels in China.
9 Ninhao Credits
Ninhao Credits will provide you with the flexibility to select any individual lessons, individual tutorials and/or an entire course. You may purchase Ninhao credits to activate/enable any product(s), (except books). For example, purchase 100 Ninhao credits and you can use those credits to purchase your favorite video lessons and/or tutorials with our Chinese teachers.
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