Question 1: How can I access all Chinese lessons from this Website?
Answer: Please sign up and you will have instant access to ALL 276+ audio lessons, full PDF transcripts, worksheets, special situational audio dialogues and video tutorials.
Question 2: Where can I download the PDF transcripts and worksheets of all lessons?
Answer: Please go to your account on www.melnyks.com and you will see them under the title ‘Active Subscriptions’.
Question 3: I lost my user name or password, can you help me?
Answer: Absolutely! You can also recover your password by filling out the lost password form.
Question 4: How can I download all lessons into my smartphone, iPod or a tablet?
Answer: It’s very easy! Signup and download the lessons into your mobile application.
Question 5: How many lessons are in this course? Are you still producing them?
Answer: We try to publish new lessons regularly, so the number of lessons is constantly growing. Currently, there are already over 276 Mandarin Chinese Audio Lessons on different topics.
The first 100 lessons will give you a very strong foundation in the language, so you can continue to build your vocabulary and acquire the language sense. Each new lesson will expand and improve what you already know, introduce new situations and teach you the nuances of the language used in these situations.
Question 6: Please tell me more about subscribing. How much does it cost?
Answer: All the information can be found here. Each subscription includes access to ALL audio lessons, extra audio dialogues (great for reviewing the lessons), full PDF transcripts (a situational dialogue and vocabulary with tons of practical examples and explanations), review worksheets, video tutorials and more.
Question 7: When I start this Mandarin Chinese course, will I be on my own? What kind of support can I count on?
Answer: No matter what lesson you are on or what level you are, when you have a question or something is not clear to you, you can either leave a comment on this Website or email us directly.
Question 8: What’s the difference between simplified and traditional transcripts?
Answer: The difference is in Chinese characters only. In simplified transcripts, the simplified Chinese characters are used and in traditional-the traditional Chinese characters. Traditional characters were used in Mainland China before 1949. In People’s Republic of China, Chinese government made a reform of the writing system in order to elliminate illiteracy among Chinese peasants. A part of this reform was to throw away some strokes of the characters and make the characters easier to write and to learn.
However, in the Republic of China (Taiwan), the traditional Chinese characters are still used. In Mainland China, all books written before 1949 are using traditional form of Chinese characters, including those written thousands of years ago, like Tang poems, etc.
