Outlier Chinese character and pronunciation solution
Learn pronunciation, speaking, listening, characters, and more with our complete package!
Chinese Character Masterclass + Dictionary
+ Mandarin Pronunciation & Accent Masterclass
+ Chinese Character Semantic Components Poster PDFs - $247
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Rated 4.8/5 by 1000's of Chinese learners
Did you know that the drop-out rate for Chinese is FOUR TIMES HIGHER than for languages like Spanish and French? And that the two most common reasons given for dropping out are 1) the characters are hard to learn, and 2) pronunciation is difficult.
Our course bundle is designed to fix those two problems! You get a total character learning and pronunciation solution:
Chinese Character Masterclass + Dictionary
+ Mandarin Pronunciation & Accent Masterclass
+ Chinese Character Semantic Components Poster PDFs - $247
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Rated 4.8/5 by 1000's of Chinese learners
What other Chinese learners are saying:
“An entirely new approach to learning new language patterns and structures while developing speaking skills to a degree I would not have believed possible for a learner of my age, with as full a daily schedule as I have. These last two months have brought about nothing short of a revolution in my language learning.”
- Rick (Taiwan)
“I started this course by being very uncomfortable just by trying to pronounce very basic single words. The contents and scheduling are really optimum to smoothly make quick progress towards full sentences. My daily time management is always very constrained. This course allows me to easily practice daily with high efficiency with the very little free time I can find every day. If you want to be able to make progress despite your very busy life, this course is made for you.”
- Pascal (Singapore)
“Through continuous repetition, the course has helped me to better understand what I am hearing and to produce the correct sounds when I speak. The course also gently takes you from very simple grammar and vocabulary to more complex sentences. Together with graded readers, this course has made the largest contribution to my improvement in speaking Chinese.”
- Ricardo (Germany)
About this package
The Chinese Character Masterclass
Learn how characters actually work and how to learn them most effectively! With 13 lessons and 500+ pages of PDF material, we teach you about the different types of character components and how characters are formed from these basic "building blocks." You'll also understand the different types of meanings a character can have, and how those meanings are related to each other.
After taking this course, you'll know exactly how characters work and how to learn them! And you'll be able to maximize your use of our Dictionary of Chinese Characters, which is also included in the package!
The Mandarin Pronunciation & Accent Masterclass
A comprehensive course on Mandarin pronunciation. Learn all of the basics of tones, initials, finals, and pinyin, plus all of the tone change rules, extensive practice with 2-tone combinations, and more! We even teach you how to fix tone problems!
Plus, there's a whole unit dedicated to teaching you chorusing and shadowing. These are powerful techniques to improve your accent, your fluidity of speech, listening comprehension, and more. These techniques are even used extensively by conference interpreters!
Everything you need to master Mandarin pronunciation—and even develop a near-native accent—is right here.
The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
A mobile dictionary (an add-on for the free Pleco dictionary app) which allows you to look up any character (it covers nearly 4000!) and find out exactly why the character looks the way it does. Eliminate any confusion you may have about characters so that you can learn and recall them with ease!
Also included are in-depth entries for 400+ characters which show you the character's origin and evolution. Dive into the incredible history of the writing system and learn a ton about Chinese history and culture along the way! This info isn't avaialable anywhere else in English, and it was developed by a PhD who specializes in the origin and evolution of Chinese characters.
Semantic Components Posters
Each Semantic Components poster PDF contains:
◆ 50 common semantic components, beautifully handwritten by calligrapher Harvey Dam
◆ explanations of their form and meaning(s)
◆ pronunciation in Hanyu Pinyin (and Zhuyin Fuhao for the traditional poster)
◆ stroke order
◆ important additional information about the component, including related components
◆ variant forms
◆ a Chinese name or description of the component (so you can talk about components with your Chinese-speaking friends!)
◆ a few example characters using it as a semantic component.
These are hi-resolution, A1 size (59.4 x 84.1cm, 23.39 x 33.11 inches) PDF files available with both a simplified and traditional character focus (2 posters each).
Your Instructors
John Renfroe
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics
Before co-founding Outlier, John studied Linguistics and Paleography in the Graduate Institute of Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University. He co-founded and later ran the Taipei Classical Chinese Reading Group, a weekly reading group consisting mostly of graduate Sinology students from western universities. He also taught classical Chinese to members of the group who had no previous instruction in the language. His coursework and research focused on excavated Warring States bamboo texts, historical Chinese character morphology, and the Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 and its commentaries and criticism.
Ash Henson, PhD
Co-founder, Outlier Linguistics
To say that Ash is a language enthusiast is an understatement. He speaks Dutch, Mandarin, Cantonese and German, all in varying states of decay. In addition to these, he has learned to some level or another another 7 languages and is currently working on Japanese and European Portuguese. He sees language learning as a chance to experiment. The goal is to find a better way (either getting the same result in a way that takes less time, or getting a better result). And he’s been at it for 30 years! He got his PhD in Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University in paleography and historical linguistics. He was also in the PhD program for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language for six years. For his qualifying exams in that department, he had to learn functional grammar, cognitive grammar, case grammar, transformational grammar. So, we've definitely got you covered on the grammar front!
Chinese Character Masterclass + Dictionary
+ Mandarin Pronunciation & Accent Masterclass
+ Chinese Character Semantic Components Poster PDFs - $247
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Rated 4.8/5 by 1000's of Chinese learners
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