CantoMando’s Podcast
Audio for Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course A and B
Episodes
Lesson 9 covers Chinese addresses and location vocabulary, including address components (number, house, apartment, room), streets and provinces, and measure words for floors and buildings. Grammar points explain address numbering and floor expressions (e.g., 23号, 23号房; 一楼/二楼; 几楼?).
The episode includes directional words (left, right, front, back, nearby), translation exercises, and practice questions for asking and answering about...
This episode covers phone and technology vocabulary (phone numbers, cell phones, computers, tablets, e-mail, SMS) and key grammar for making and receiving calls and messages.
It includes sample dialogues and translations for calling, texting, emailing, arranging meetings, video conferences, online shopping, and using devices in daily life.
Lesson 7 teaches money vocabulary (dollar, dime, cent; 公斤, 磅; 包, 盒, 台, 支), grammar for asking prices and totals (多少钱, 一共), and how to say amounts with cents (e.g., 八块零九分, 三十四块零五分).
It also covers discounts and sales (折, 半价, 买一送一), calculating percentage discounts with examples, and translated shopping dialogues for phones, apples, wine and more to practice real-life conversations.
Lesson 6 introduces essential weather vocabulary (rain, snow, sun, cloudy, wind, storm, thunderstorm, lightning) and temperature terms, with Chinese and English examples.
The episode covers grammar for asking and answering weather questions, practicing weather forecasts and sample sentences (today's weather, rain/snow, highs/lows, and forecasts for cities like Toronto, Singapore, Shanghai).
Listeners practice reading and answering ...
This episode teaches how to ask and tell the time in Chinese, with key vocabulary for hours (点), minutes (分), and halves (半), plus phrases for periods of the day (早上, 上午, 中午, 下午, 晚上).
It also covers daily routine verbs (brush teeth 刷牙, wash face 洗脸, shower 洗澡, cook 做饭) and grammar for asking/answering time and using 每 (every). The episode includes example sentences, practice questions, and simple translations to reinforce learning.
...This episode covers Lesson 4: vocabulary for months (January–December) and weekdays (Monday–Sunday), how to ask and answer about dates and days (e.g., "What date?", "What day?", "When?"), and common time expressions (today, yesterday, tomorrow, last/next week/month/year).
It introduces grammar patterns for saying when events happen (e.g., "I will come on Wednesday", "I bought this last year"), sample dialogues about birthdays, appo...
Lesson 三: Practice using approximate numbers (左右, 几, 多) with common vocabulary: week, red wine, lobster, kilogram, bottle, class, hotel, market, bus, nurse, socks, tables. Includes example sentences and translations for quantities like 30 students, two weeks, four glasses of wine, eight kilos of lobster, fifty buses, seven thousand nurses, 100 pairs of socks, ten tables, and more.
This episode teaches Chinese measure words and everyday vocabulary (clothing, objects, animals, food, and places) with clear examples and translations.
Listeners practice applying measure words in sentences, asking “how many” and “which,” and learn useful phrases for buying, describing, and counting items in real situations.
This episode teaches Chinese number vocabulary from 0 to large five-digit numbers, including tens, hundreds, thousands, and examples combining digits (e.g., 27, 563, 5,768).
It includes pronunciation and written forms in both Arabic numerals and Chinese characters, plus short practice tests with answers to check your progress.
This episode focuses on making suggestions and requests in Mandarin, covering vocabulary like park (公园), restaurant (餐厅), take a stroll (散步), drive (开车), chat (聊天), ask (问), time (时间), homework (功课), cellphone (手机), and nearby (附近).
Grammar points include using 可以 (can), 让 (let/help), and 别/不要 (don’t), with practice dialogues for saying sorry, asking for help, offering to do homework, and polite refusals. Short role-play questions ...
Lesson 9 introduces vocabulary for describing people, places and things (e.g., 好, 贵, 高, 漂亮, 聪明) and teaches degree expressions 很, 太, and 不.
The episode includes example sentences, translations, and dialogues about preferences, buying cars and homes, distance, tiredness, and asking questions.
Practice exercises reinforce using adjectives, degree adverbs, and common conversational patterns.
This episode covers Lesson 8 vocabulary for daily activities (get up, start/finish work, exercise, rest, listen to music, read, surf the internet, sleep) and key grammar with 了 and 刚刚.
It includes example sentences, translation practice, dialogues, and a short passage to translate so learners can practice completed actions and recent events.
This episode (Lesson C) teaches work vocabulary and simple dialogues about jobs and workplaces. Learn key words like nurse (护士), teacher (老师), student (学生), manager (经理), server (服务员), salesperson (销售员), software engineer (软件工程师), boss (老板), and places: company (公司), restaurant (餐馆), shop (商店), school (学校), hospital (医院).
Sample sentences: "What do you do?" (你做什么工作?) "I am a student." "Miss Li is my teacher." "My husband is a softw...
Lesson 六 covers family vocabulary (family members, children, siblings), the verbs 有/没有 and grammar patterns for asking and answering about having or not having family members. It also includes Vocabulary B (return, buy groceries, cook, see/watch/read, doctor, bus), grammar for doing things together (一起) and using 都, plus practice sentences and a dialogue about Mr. Wong and friends meeting and talking about family, living arrangemen...
This episode teaches vocabulary and grammar about nationality and residence (Lesson 五). It covers country names and nationalities, verbs about working, searching, buying, locations (here/there), and the verb 住 (to live). Includes example sentences, translations, and practice questions such as: asking and answering name, nationality, workplace, residence, and daily habits. The episode ends with a short passage about Peter and his gi...
Lesson 4 teaches basic greetings and asking for names in Chinese through short dialogues. It introduces essential phrases like Hello (你好), Good morning (早上好), How are you? (你好吗?), Thank you (谢谢), Sorry (对不起), and polite expressions for introducing people and identifying belongings.
The episode features conversations about meeting old friends, introducing friends and spouses, offering or declining tea and coffee, and asking and answ...
Audio of the Chinese text in Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course A, Lesson 3
Audio of the Chinese text in Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course A, Lesson 2
Audio of the Chinese text in Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course A, Chapter 1
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