Our first lesson is tones and a basic greeting: we start with 你好, nǐ hǎo, meaning “hello,” because you need correct pronunciation from the beginning, especially the third tone in nǐ and hǎo, before we build conversation on top of it.

Student Request

Reply in one short spoken paragraph only: what is our first lesson?

Teacher Response

Our first lesson is tones and a basic greeting: we start with 你好, nǐ hǎo, meaning “hello,” because you need correct pronunciation from the beginning, especially the third tone in nǐ and hǎo, before we build conversation on top of it.