Hey everyone! This is Ms Olive and welcomes to the Chinese pinyin crash course.

Like the phonetic symbol is in English, pinyin is used to help with pronunciations of Chinese characters.

In this course, I will go through everything about pinyin in a simple and engaging way, including tones, finals, initials, whole syllables and important rules. You will understand how pinyin works, know their pronunciations and apply them to Chinese characters. If you're a beginner, then this course will help you to learn Chinese pinyin quicker and it'll build a solid foundation for your Chinese language learning.

Things you'll learn in detail:

1. Composition of pinyin

2. The 4 tones

3. Initial/finals/whole syllables

4. Pronunciation rules

5. Spelling rules

6. Special principles

The content for the course is specifically designed to suit the needs of beginners, I'll teach in detail and in an easy understanding way. Therefore the course is super suitable for Chinese language beginners who wants to learn Chinese part-timely or Chinese lovers who have no basic knowledge of pinyin or Chinese language learner who is weak in pinyin. I'll teach you all the tricks and ways to remember all the pinyin and principles that can help you massively while learning. After this course, you'll find Chinese pronunciations are so much easier than you think before!

Please have faith in both yourself and Ms Olive! We'll make this an enjoyable learning journey. :)