If you have completed Part 1, congratulation! It shows that you are serious to learn Chinese.

Let’s continue…. How many words do you need to speak Mandarin?

Based on our experience, you need at least 500 words to speak basic Mandarin.

Today, let us start with 30 most common words that you must know.

Focus to improve 1% by each day and you will be able to speak fluent Mandarin very soon!

Here are 30 vocabularies you need to learn today:

Subjects
1	I / me	Saya	我	wǒ
2	You	Kamu	你	nǐ
3	He/she/it	Dia	他/她	tā
Importand word / Verb to be
4	Belong to (‘s)	Punya	的	de
5	Is/are/am	Sangat	很	hěn
6	Not	Tidak	不	bù
7	Is/are/am	Ialah/adalah	是	shì
8	Am not/is not/are not	Bukan	不是	bù shì
9	This	Ini	这个	zhè ge
10	Want	Mahu	要	yào
Noun
11	Telephone	Telefon	电话	diàn huà
12	Name	Nama	名字	míng zì
13	Student	Pelajar	学生	xué shēng
14	Malaysia	Malaysia	马来西亚	mǎ lái xī yǎ
15	Person/ People	Orang	人	rén
Adjectives
16	Cute	Comel	可爱	kě ài
17	Good	Baik	好	hǎo
18	Happy	Gembira	开心	kāi xīn
19	Tall	Tinggi	高	gāo
Verb
20	Eat	Makan	吃	chī
21	Drink	Minum	喝	hē
22	Go	Pergi	去	qù
Uncategorised
23	Called as	Panggil	叫	jiào
24	Years old	Umur	岁	suì
25	Live	Tinggal	住	zhù
26	At/in/on	Di	在	zài
Questions
27	Where	Mana	哪里	nǎ lǐ
28	How many/much	Berapa	几	jǐ
29	What	Apa	什么	shén me
30	Question mark? ( last word)	ke/tak?	吗？	ma?

 p/s: Remember we have learned numbers before? So total you should have 40-50 vocabularies in your mind now

Let’s do the assignment below & submit to the teacher to check your answer:

Q1: What is your name?

A1 : My name is _______

 

Q2: How old are you?

A2: I am 30 years old

 

Q3: Where do you live?

A3: I live in Shah Alam

 

Q4: Are you Malaysian?

A4: I am not Malaysian.

 

Q5: Are you Vincent’s student?

A5: I am his student.

 

Q6: Are you happy?

A6: I am happy

 

Q7: What do you eat?

A7: I eat Nasi Lemak.

 

Q8: What do you want to drink?

A8: I want to drink Milo.

 

Q9: Where do you want to go?

A9: I want to go Kuala Lumpur.

 

Q10: You are tall

A10: I am not tall

 

Q11: He is tall

A11: No, he is cute

 

Q12: I am a good person

A12: You are not a good person

 

Q13: Is this your phone?

A13: This is not my phone.

 

Q14: Where are you from?

Q14: I am from Melaka.

 

Q15: What is this?

A15: This is my phone.

 

Q16: Where are you?

A16: I am at my office.

 

Q17: Is he Vincent?

A17: He is Vincent

 

Q18: How are you?

A18: I am good

 

Q19: What is your phone number?

Q19: My phone number is 0172978497

 

Q20: Do you want to go?

A20: I don’t want to go.

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