100 Sentences to China1.5.0 - Download

This application is for people who are strangers to Chinese language.

The application contains 100 Chinese sentences covering "Greetings", "Enquiries", "Conversation", "Making Friends", "In Hotel", "Shopping", "Bargaining", "Renting Houses" and "Finding Jobs".

Taking advantage of this application, you will find learning Chinese easy and comfortable, and the application will also help you to communicate with Chinese people when you are travelling in China. However, if you intend to learn Chinese professionally, it is not recommended to use this application.

All the Chinese characters have been appropriately phoneticized with popularly accepted International Phonetic Symbols. (You may find that all Chinese characters are single syllabled.) Additionally, four kinds of intonation symbols are used to indicate the particular Chinese cadence, which are for learners who want to pronounce Chinese more precisely. The symbol " ˉ " indicates a level tone, the symbol " ＇ " indicates a rising tone, the symbol " ｀ " indicates a falling tone, and the symbol " ˇ " indicates an oblique tone (a first falling and then rising tone).

The corresponding parts in English and Chinese are highlighted with same color, usually they have same or similar syntactical functions and meanings in both languages' contexts, this design aims to help you get familiar with the sentence structure, word meaning and word order of Chinese language. The substitutable parts in sentences are underlined, such as in sentences 22-25. The symbol '_' after a Chinese character indicates that this character together with the character(s) in the next line compose a Chinese word, they should not be separated.

To start, scroll and click on a topic to expand it, and then scroll and click on a sentence, the corresponding Chinese sentence with International Phonetic Symbols will be displayed, accompanied with the audio playing. Click the button with a golden horn to replay the audio speech.