How to Learn Chinese in 5 Minutes Per Day?

In China, more than 70 million people from 55 distinct national minorities live, and although each minority has its own spoken language, many minority groups lack a distinguishable written medium for their languages. Standard Chinese is the most widely spoken language in China. China is one of the world’s most linguistically rich nations. Most linguists identify all of the varieties of spoken Chinese that comprise the Sinitic branch as the Sino-Tibetan language family (spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China) and claim that there was an initial language, Proto-Sino-Tibetan, from which the Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman languages descended, close to Proto-Indo-European. The connection between Chinese and the other Sino-Tibetan languages is still unknown and under investigation, as is the effort to reconstruct Proto-Sino-Tibetan.

Memrise teaches the pinyin as well as the characters of the words. Memrise allows users to set a daily study goal, such as five minutes per day, ten minutes per day, fifteen minutes per day, and so on.

Drops offers a free subscription, you get a five-minute learning session per 10 hours. Drops is a fun—and, I must say, extremely satisfying—app to learn with, thanks to its vibrant colours and video game-like structure of the lessons.

5 min YouTube video 

If you’re on a tight budget, have access to a computer or phone, or simply enjoy watching YouTube, you can use it to learn Chinese in five minutes a day.

ChineseClass101.com offers a learning series for 3 mins in a Learn Chinese in 3 Minutes Series. This short, engaging series includes nine videos that walk you through the basics of Mandarin Chinese. And the best part? They’re only three minutes long. 

FluentU

The channel is made up of playlists of short Chinese conversations about things like going out to dinner with a friend, shopping at a clothing store, or going in for a job interview.

Flashcards

Whether you study with flashcards for five minutes every day or once a week, here are our favourite flashcard apps and websites that are completely free to use. You can use Quizlet, Anki etc

Funky Junk helps you learn Chinese in 5 mins.

Duolingo 

Learn Chinese in just 5 minutes a day with our game-like lessons. Whether you’re a beginner starting with the basics or looking to practise your reading, writing and speaking.

Many officials and commoners spoke different Chinese dialects, Nanjing Mandarin became prevalent at least during the officially Manchu-speaking Qing Empire. Until the mid-twentieth century, the majority of Chinese in southern China did not speak Mandarin. Since the 17th century, several efforts and attempts have been made to make pronunciation adhere to the Beijing style. To accomplish this, the Empire established Orthoepy Academies. These efforts, however, were largely unsuccessful. The Nanjing Mandarin standard was eventually replaced in the imperial court during the last 50 years of the Qing Dynasty in the late nineteenth century.

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