There is nothing more thrilling than being able to speak one of the most difficult languages in the world.
Welcome to Aux Lingo. In this course, you’re going to learn to speak authentic Chinese. Our beginner's course is highly practical and will follow you anywhere. Your instructor is going to be Tony Wei. With over 7 years of teaching experience, Tony is a great match for this course because he is great at teaching authentic Chinese speaking and pronunciation, as well as useful words and phrases, listening and sentence structure.

In this course, we don’t teach the writing of the Chinese characters (Hàn zì) because the Chinese writing system is extremely difficult and different from the Chinese speaking system. Learning to speak and write at the same time would make the course mentally exhausting. So, we're keeping it simple: you’re going to focus on speaking, listening, vocabulary, and sentence structure.

Many learners (our students included) prefer to stick with Pinyin, which is a system that spells out Chinese sounds using the English alphabet. Pinyin is not a language, but it’s a great pronunciation tool, and without it, you’ll find it difficult to get used to the sounds of Mandarin. It’s the very first thing you should learn in Chinese. In fact, Chinese kids learn Mandarin in much the same way – they start with Pinyin in primary school before they graduate to characters. If you get pronunciation wrong from the start, you will not be able to pronounce new words correctly later on in your studies.