Our next live session will be on Saturday 17th January at 11am GMT. Everyone is welcome to join to meet with other community members and practice Mandarin together, no matter your level. You can also come to listen in if you’re not feeling confident enough to speak yet! Our topics will be: 1. Pinyin pronunciation + tone focus (practice listening + repeating a range of words to improve pronunciation). 2. Building basic sentences using key verbs (Power verbs) + structures. 3. Look at some more complex sentence structures, to help you move from basic sentences to more higher level ones. There will be something for all beginner levels. Look forward to seeing some of you there! 下个星期六见！See you next Saturday.

大家好！ Our first Study Buddy Mandarin practice session of 2026 will be next weekend. 🎉🎉 Join us if you want to listen to and practice speaking Mandarin 🗣️ in a supportive environment and get to know more people in the community. All are welcome 🤗 Mandarin topics for the session will be: 1. Talking about things you ‘want’ 想 / 想要 to do or ‘will’ 会 do (future tense). 2. Describing things (to re-cap and build on what we covered last time!) 3. Talk about our goals for 2026 (你2026年的目标是什么？） Any questions, let me know in the comments below. Hope to see you there! 下周六见！ ⭐️

谢谢大家！Thank you to everyone who joined us for the session today! @Lina Nang @Lavanya Karthik @Ionut Diaconu @Ewelina Pietkiewicz @Jessica Barten @Amanda Smith @Hadjar Haddou We talked a lot in Mandarin and practiced lots of different topics including: 1. Describing yourself - different adjectives + structures to build more complex sentences. 2. Describing hair + eyes, using colours (including 2 different ways to structure those sentences). 3. Describing what you like + dislike, and why. The notes from the session are attached below. Please use them to practice if you wish! Also, feel free to comment with a sentence using some words / grammar we learnt and practiced today. 下次见！ See you next time!

Join us this Saturday for a FREE live Study Buddy call where you can listen to real Mandarin, practise speaking, and ask questions in a relaxed, supportive space. This session is especially helpful if you’re a beginner or not fully confident speaking yet. Our topics will be: 1. Describing yourself and others (appearance + personality etc.) 2. Giving opinions on things e.g. your hobbies, things you like and dislike + why. 3. Asking people about their hobbies, likes, dislikes etc. Comment below if you’re planning to come along! + Any questions you have. To support you in preparing for the session, feel free to check out the resources in our Free Essentials course in the classroom tab. Look forward to seeing some of you there! 星期六见！See you Saturday!

Well done to all who joined @Amanda Smith @Lina Nang @Trevon Augustin @Jessica Barten @Hadjar Haddou @Usama Virk You practiced Mandarin speaking for a whole hour and should be very proud of your hard work. If you want, comment with a sentence or something new you learnt today! Our next session will be 20th December - look forward to seeing some/all of you then. 😊 I’ll share the topic for our next session 1 week before. 下次见！