Zhu Xuan

Zhu Xuan

Teacher at Shanghai International Studies University. Have been teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages for 10 years.

Location Shanghai, China

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  • Please pay attention to the initials.

  • Hope the course is helpful and please post your questions whenever you need.

  • This is a good start for the connection!

  • Happy Year of Tiger! Eight years practicing of Chinese Calligraphy is amazing! Look forward to your Chinese poem!

  • How is it going now?

  • I think so.

  • Thank you!

  • Good luck with your Mandarin Learning!

  • Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try to get it posted.

  • Haha wǒ yě aì shuìjiào.

  • Thank you!

  • Wow so do you think this course is too easy for you?

  • You can practice Chinese with them.

  • Welcome to Shanghai and hope you will enjoy your work and life here.

  • Thank you for saying this. We don't have more courses by now but we are trying to do more. If you have any suggestions for the new course such as topics, exercise etc. please let me know. @ElaineThompson

  • 你好。

  • 以i,n结尾的复韵母儿化后丢掉韵尾i,n, 比如小花儿,撒欢儿,儿化后相同。

  • *qiǎokèlì

  • Great practice! Hěnhǎo!

  • 也感谢你的努力! Thank you for your effort too!

  • Thank you! Did you enjoy the learning?@JennyWong

  • Thank you for your comment! @SilviaGrudkova

  • Practice makes perfect! Stay with us and you will get used to the tones.@NayibePernia

  • Welcome! Could you share some Chinese culture you like or you are interested in?

  • Welcome!

  • Nice to meet you! Hope you have a pleasant learning experience here~@PresentacionObillo

  • Hopefully it will be a good start.

  • Interesting! Thank you for sharing. Hope this course can help you get understood by your mother-in-law. You can practice Chinese with her.

  • Hi! Welcome back~ Practice more and you will understand it better.

  • Hi Sara! Have fun in this course. You can also share your Chinese learning methods and experience and help other learners to get a start.

  • It is not so hard to learn Chinese. Let's start together!

  • Welcome to our course.Hope the course can help to achieve what you expect.

  • You can pronounce 400 syllables after we learn those initials and finals in two weeks. Don't worry!

  • Great!

  • Don't worry, it's normal for most learners. We will practice them.

  • Good start!

  • Hi~ Follow us and practice with your girlfriend! Please let us know if there are other things you'd like to learn about China.

  • Follow us and you will find it is manageable !

  • 加油,你一定可以!

  • Hi Paula! Appreciated that you want to spend your time for learning Chinese. I have the same feeling since I also work with international students. I'm sure students will be really happy if you can pronounce their names in Chinese!

  • Xièxie nǐ! Please continue your Chinese learning! And you can ask other friends to learn Chinese with you! Zàijiàn!

  • Xièxie! Your comment is very important for us! Grateful that you enjoyed your learning.

  • Hěn gāoxìng nǐ lái xuéxí hànyǔ. It was great to have you in this course. Hope you can continue to learn Chinese!

  • Xièxie nǐ! Please continue your Chinese learning!

  • Wǒ yě ài kāfei. I also like coffee!
    Nǐ ài chá ma? Do you like tea?

  • 太棒了,你写的句子都很好!Tài bàng le ,nǐ xiě de jùzi dōu hěn hǎo !@EduardoMórlan

  • Good to hear that! I heard that in Hungarian you have many phonetics. I guess Chinese won't be too hard for you!

  • For short, 水滴石穿(shuǐ dī shí chuān).You know a Chinese idiom!

  • Glad you've enjoyed learning. Watching drama is a very good way of learning language. @JillBoland

  • It's true. Sometimes one Chinese character has more than one pronunciation and different meaning. You can post your questions here whenever you come across them.

  • Nice to meet you! I have many Italian friends and students and I think there are a lot in common for Chinese and Italian culture.

  • 你好!Glad to hear your Chinese learning story! You can do it better! 加油!

  • What are the Chinese movies and songs you like best?

  • Nice to meet you! Good luck with your Chinese learning and your career!

  • Lovely story! Hope you will learn some Chinese with us and come to China again.

  • 谢谢您Mórlan 先生。您在FutureLearn学习了很多课,希望您喜欢我们的汉语课,并期待您的分享和建议。Xièxiè nín Mórlan xiānsheng. Nín zài FutureLearn xuéxí le hěnduō kè ,xīwàng nín xǐhuān wǒmen de Hànyǔ kè ,bìng qīdài nín de fēnxiǎng hé jiànyì.
    Thanks Mr. Mórlan. I saw you have joined in many courses in FutureLearn. Hope you will enjoy our Chinese courses and look forward to your sharing and...

  • 不 bù means no, sometimes it is read as bú. We'll talk about it next week!

  • When you add “吗“(ma) in the end, you change the sentence into a question. “了'' (le) in the end of a sentence means 'have been' or 'have done' .我(wǒ) means I

  • Thanks for sharing!

  • Thank you for your feedback. We already corrected it.@ErikMiguelAguilar

  • Interesting story! You must be a very good teacher since you don't speak Chinese when you teach English. I believe it will be easier for you to learn Chinese pronunciation. Jiāyóu! @DouglasMitchinson

  • Nanning is a beautiful city. Hope you can use some Chinese when you visit! @stefanieBorkum

  • It seems that you are good at learning language and I believe it will be a good try! @HelenM

  • Huānyíng nǐ ! Nǐ de Hànyǔ hěn hǎo !Your Chinese is quite good! Hope you can also enjoy the course and you can help other learners!

  • Nǐ men hǎo!Hi! I'm Zhu Xuan, one of the educator of this course. Glad to start the Chinese learning journey with you! Please leave us comments if you have any suggestions or questions. Anything you want to share is welcomed.

  • 我的生日是六月二十五日

  • 你的生日是新年!(new year)

  • 很好!excellent! Especially the tones

  • 非常好。but it should be 二十八号instead of 二八号

  • 好学生,加油!

  • Totally agree with you! Where have you been in China?

  • I think Mandarin will get back you very soon! You can practice by leaving comments to us as well as communicating and helping other learners.

  • 你好!You will understand the Chinese language system more clearly in this course and that will help you with the course in your University. 加油!

  • You can do it!

  • Where do you live?

  • Wish you a success.

  • I appreciate what you did as a host father. I know that is not easy. Hope you can enjoy our course and communicate with more people directly in their languages.

  • 你好!I've heard many similar stories from Australians and Americans about Chinese schools at weekends. Never late than ever. Hope you and your kid can enjoy Chinese learning.

  • Yes there are a lot of Chinese people living in Australia. Good luck with the new course and hope you can stay with us till the end.

  • I'm sure you can improve your Mandarin by attending this course. Where have you been in China? 在中国你去过哪儿?

  • 你好,你的汉语很好,你的专业是什么?

  • 我的生日是六月二十五号!

  • 谢谢你:)

  • Sorry for the inconvenience. This platform does't not support adding Pinyin on the Characters. Hope the audio would help you.I believe you can learn more after you arranging the learning materials by yourself. @RebeccaT

  • Sorry this platform does't not support adding Pinyin on the Characters. Hope the audio would help you. @Sherrill-AnnWilmot

  • 不客气,加油!@DuncanGibbons

  • Surely I will consider your suggestion. It has a lot to prepare to start a new course but we will try our best. If you have any suggestion in detail, don't hesitate to tell me @InezBischof-Keemink

  • 你很棒,加油!

  • 你好,你的汉语很不错,加油吧!你有中文名字吗?@JuttaReese-Oelsner

  • Glad to read your comments on our courses. Good luck with the new course. @GiuseppinaDiGiannantonio

  • 谢谢大家一起来学习中文!

  • No need to delete. You can have a taste first and decide if you can continue. Sadly the Pronunciation course is finished now and you can attend next run.

  • This course might be a little difficult for beginner. Please leave us comments if you need any help.

  • Good luck with the new course!

  • Hi Suat, I'm appreciated of your performance in Pronunciation and Tone course. Hope you can keep active in the new course too.

  • Nǐ hǎo!Welcome!You can do practice or leave some questions in the comment area and I guess you can also help other learners to practice.

  • Where are you from? Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén ?Usually it is easy to pick it up if you learned some Chinese before. Jiāyóu!

  • Hěn gāoxìng zài jiàn dào nǐ 。Great to see you again.