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 and answers reinforce listening and speaking skills.

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 software engineer at my company." "My wife is a nurse at the hospital." "His girlfriend is not a server; she is the owner of the restaurant." "Miss Chin works as a salesperson at the Apple Store." "They are all students at my school."

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 arrangements, and having coffee.

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 girlfriend living and working in Toronto, plus exercises for translation and Q&A in Chinese.

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 answering names and relationships (e.g., co-worker, girlfriend, wife). It practices both vocabulary and simple grammar for everyday social situations.

Audio of the Chinese text in Mandarin Chinese Foundation Course A, Lesson 3