Lessons 1-10

Lesson 21 她想跟你一起吃晚饭吗? Does she want to have dinner with you?

她 要 跟 男朋友 一 起 吃 午饭。 She will eat lunch with her boyfriend.
Tā yào gēn nánpéngyou yī qǐ chī wǔfàn.
She will-want with male-friend one together eat noon-rice.

她 想 跟 你 一 起 吃 晚饭 吗? Does she want to have dinner with you?
Tā yào gēn nǐ yī qǐ chī wǎnfàn ma?
She want with you one together eat evening-rice question?

陈 先生 想 跟 我 一 起 吃 晚饭。 Mr. Chen wants to eat dinner with me.
Chén xiānsheng xiǎng gēn wǒ yī qǐ chī wǎnfàn.
Chen first-born like-want with I one together eat evening-rice.

她 要 跟 男朋友 一 起 去 公园。 She is going to go to the park with her boyfriend.
Tā yào gēn nánpéngyou yī qǐ qù gōngyuán.
She will-want with male-friend one together go public-park.

我 喜欢 跟 朋友 一 起 去 酒吧。 I like to go bars with my friends.
Wǒ xǐhuan gēn péngyou yī qǐ qù jiǔbā.
I like with friend one together go alchohol-bar.

我 跟 同事 一 起 去 银行 了。 I went to the bank with my coworker.
Wǒ gēn tóngshì yī qǐ qù yínháng le.
I with same-affairs one together go silver-profession.

她 要 跟 校长 一 起 去 银行。 She's going to the bank with the principal.
Tā yào gēn xiàozhǎng yī qǐ qù yínháng.
She want with school-chief one together go silver-profession.

Lessons 11-20
Lessons 21-30
Lessons 31-40
Lessons 41-50
Lessons 51-60
Lessons 61-70
Lessons 71-80
Lessons 81-90
Lessons 91-100
Lessons 101-110
Lessons 111-120
Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.