Watch and learn some useful phrases to describe your emotions.

Learn some useful words to describe stationery such as ruler, pencil, eraser, tape, etc.

Learn the Chinese terms for shapes in this video.

This video continues with the different shapes.

Now let's learn about some of the things that you will wear in the winter.

This video continues with terms for clothing.

It's time to learn about different occupations.

Let's continue with the different occupations.

When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.

This video continues with transportation terminology.

Let's learn the names of home appliances.

Let's learn some more home appliance terms.

The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.

As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.

If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.

In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.

This video talks about the Chinese words for plants.

If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.

This video teaches you how to say the names of some musical instruments.

This video teaches you how to say the names of some sports and hobbies.

Susan is visiting her friend for Spring Festival. Let's see how a Chinese family celebrates this holiday.

Susan accidentally runs into her friend's family members in the street. Not knowing who they are, she is given the wrong directions and heads further away from the house.

There are two ways to say hello in Chinese: "ni hao," the informal way, and "nin hao," the manner that shows respect.

After receiving the wrong directions, Susan is now lost and needs to find her way to her friend's home.