On this page you will find links to online Chinese video lessons with basic Chinese phrases. Most of the video lessons listed below are perfect for beginners.
Usually there is either Chinese transcript of the dialogues or Chinese subtitles. Chinese video lessons with transcript will help you learn most commonly used Chinese words and Chinese phrases and will improve your listening comprehension skills in Chinese. On some of the sites you will find links to download video to your computer.
The full description and user reviews of some courses from the list below can be found on the page with all Chinese video courses.
The difficulty level is indicated by color circles:
- for beginner/elementary level – ,
- for intermediate level – ,
- for advanced learners – .
Chinese dialects are indicated by a corresponding little flag:
- – for Mandarin Chinese,
- – for Cantonese.
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- www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk – Chinese Multimedia - 22 Chinese lessons for beginners. Only first 3 lessons are available online. See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- english.cntv.cn – Travel in Chinese - Chinese video course online: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- cctv.cntv.cn – Growing up with Chinese - Chinese video lessons online: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- english.cntv.cn – Communicate in Chinese - Chinese video course online: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- www.cctv.com – Le chinois en voyage - Chinese video lessons for French speaking learners: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- fr.cntv.cn – Le chinois au quotidien - Chinese video lessons for French speaking learners: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk – Multimedia Role Play for Chinese - Chinese video lessons for intermediate level with transcript: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- www.chinesecio.com – Chinese culture video lessons. With Chinese and English subtitles.
- russian.cntv.cn – Chinese video lessons for russian-speaking learners: See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- www.hanyu.com.cn – New Practical Chinese Reader - online video lessons for the first 3 books. The site works well only in Internet Explorer. See more details on this Chinese video course on this page.
- russian.cri.cn – animated Chinese lessons for Russian-speaking learners
- english.cri.cn – Elementary Chinese - short animated lessons of Chinese
- www.mandarintube.com – Chinese Learning Channel