Our first lesson is tones and your first basic conversation line, starting with 你好 (nǐ hǎo), “hello”; we’ll train the four tones with mā má mǎ mà, then practice nǐ hǎo and 我是 Henry (wǒ shì Henry) so you build pronunciation before longer sentences.

Student Request

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

Teacher Response

Our first lesson is tones and your first basic conversation line, starting with 你好 (nǐ hǎo), “hello”; we’ll train the four tones with mā má mǎ mà, then practice nǐ hǎo and 我是 Henry (wǒ shì Henry) so you build pronunciation before longer sentences.