Introduction of how to take mandarinlearn.com to be you free and efficient tool to learn to speak chinese mandarin.

1. Mandarinlearn.com
User Manual
December, 2010
Version: Beta 1 Produced by: Mandarinlearn.com

2. Contents
What is Mandarinlearn.com
Basic Introduction of Site
Green Hand on Road
Recommended Self E-learning Path
Introduction of Site’s Multiple Functions
Donation Course for New Learners
Donation Courses for Institutions
And More…

3. What is Mandarinlearn.com
Launched in late 2008, the best Chinese
mandarin e-learning community.
The objective is to help people to learn to
speak simple Chinese mandarin in a
easy and rapid way.
Currently provides 12 languages service,
such as English, Spanish, Portuguese,
French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic,
Japanese, Korean, etc. And, will provide
more later.
Statistics shows till end of 2010, over
120,000 visitors from 110 countries &
areas visited.
Average Time on Site: 00:04:54
Pages per visit: 3.96
Learners feedback show it’s really a
good and useful e-learning tool.
Statistical data from Google Analytics, Dec. 2010

4. Site Main Visitors
People who wants to speak simple Chinese
mandarin for better communication and
opportunities when they come to China for
tourism, business, living, shopping, making
friends, working, etc.
People who wants to speak simple Chinese
mandarin for better guest satisfaction when they
provide service to Chinese customer locally.
People who need teaching material and plans to
provide Chinese language coaching to
international people locally all over the world.
Haven't I been telling you already, your website
is very good!!!
---Giovanni Helm, from Netherlands

5. Basic Introduction of the Site
Free open courses & material for self e-learning
Initials, Finals, Common phrases, Learning guide, Sentence pattern, Basic grammar
Over 50 dialogues, 600 sentences, 4000 words, with Pinyin remark
Audio, video, games, external links…
Advanced e-learning management system
Advanced e-learning platform for learners: learning path, quiz, drop box, engagement,
games, multimedia formats of documents, file library, record tracking, chatting, live
conference, multi-language user interface, self-registration and self-enrollment, user
grades report, etc.
Currently provides 4 formal donation course, Simple Chinese for Hotel service, for
Shopping service, for Food service, etc.
Multiple community functions for fun
Forum, User point system, friends searching, personal message, groups, events,
multiple application, etc.
Share members’ status with friends from Facebook, linkedin, My space, Windows live,
Google ware, etc.
Business and advertising service
Online Shopping, Live Support, Online survey, Customer feedback
Informal advertisement self-publishing, Formal Advertising, Affiliate program, Email
marketing service…

6. Green Hand on Road
How to select learner’s native spoken language
• On top right of each page, you can
select your native spoken language
by click the flag, then the course
language, system operation language
will change.
To get better experience, we recommend you • Especially useful for those who are
to use the famous internet browser, such as IE not familiar with English language.
7,8,9, Firefox 3, Chrome, Opera, etc.
How to use advanced search function
• On top left of each page, you can
use advanced search function, type
into any key words, system will show
all the results from content, forum,
community, advertisement, e-
learning system, etc.

7. Green Hand on Road
How to use audio playing function • The audio bar has the
function of playing, pause,
stop, re-playing, volume
adjustment, so when you play
the audio, look at each Pinyin,
with each Chinese word,
Make sure you turn on your computer’s speaker, or listen to the pronunciation,
helmet headset to hear the sound. Clean the cache of the and repeat.
browser if you think the audio file was not uploaded &
played correctly, and try again.
How to use rapid self e-learning tool
• On bottom left of each page,
you can use rapid self e-
learning tool bar to help you
strengthen your pronunciation
of Pinyin, Four tones. Just
click the button.
• Better use when you go into
dialogue learning stage

8. Green Hand on Road
• Rapid learning menu will
lead you directly to free open
course content page, very
useful when you start from
Zero.
• Recommend you read the
learning guide before you
start to learn.

9. Green Hand on Road
Pronunciation
Translation
• You can easily get into free open course
content page from simple dialogue page and
course categories page.
• Each course includes Pinyin, Chinese
sentence, Chinese words, and also Notes if
necessary.
• The site currently provides over 50
dialogues listed among different categories,
such us, travel, business, common use, etc.

10. Green Hand on Road
• FAQs area provide a lot of
answers to visitors’ frequent
questions, such as, how to
subscribe a donation course,
how to submit a ads, how to
play audio, etc.
•Each answer provides a
detail guideline with pictures

11. Recommended Self E-learning Path
Set your own learning objective.
Get to familiar with the site multiple functions.
Read the learning guide.
Start from Pinyin: Initials and Finals.
Grasp the four tones and pronunciation skills of Pinyin.
Learn from common polite terms and simple dialogues.
Get idea of sentence pattern, structure and basic grammar.
Keep going with dialogues in different applications, with words.
Practices with those who can speak Chinese around you, and
Reviews.
I hope I can find a concrete scheme to learn, because I like Chinese and
your site, but don’t know how & where to start. Thank you!
---Siva, from India

12. Community
In community, you can introduce yourself, search and make friends from all over the
world. Visitors should register to be site member and then login to enjoy those functions.
On top of personal profile, you can change and publish your personal information. And,
you can create and join groups, send private messages, publish your photo, video,
create events, set up your own applications, etc. “Share this” function can easily help
you make more your friends from facebook, etc know what’s going on with you.
There will be more community function in near future.

13. Forum
In forum, Visitors can read the topics the site members posted.
Hot topics of Pronunciations skills, Chinese cities attractions, Chinese dishes, are
posted in different categories.
Site members can post, reply, edit, delete their own topics as they like.
On top of forum page, the menu tab will lead you to different categories, and functions
On top and bottom of each topic, site members can easily find the function menu.

14. E-learning Platform
The site provides advanced e-learning
management system for members to get
better online self-learning experience and
result.
Site members login and click “my course”
in user menu then enter into platform area.
Site members should make donation to
the site and then get the access right to the
courses
The operation menu on top right of page
shows multiple function of e-learning system,
such as learning path, quiz, drop box, home
work, attendance tracking, certificate,
external links, etc.
Each donation course contains abundant
learning material and format, organized by a
learning path, which will show attendee a
concrete scheme. Following the learning
path will improve the efficiency.
In “User option” area, attendee can
change the default language to be their
native spoken ones.

15. Online Survey
In online survey area, visitors can attend the survey.
And, visitors can see the result of each survey when they finish it.
Currently the site provide two surveys mainly related to the development of the site.
The survey menu locates among the site bottom menu, visitors can easily find it.

16. Online Store
In Online store area, visitors can find the
products the site provides
Only registered site members can take
the online shopping, and go through all
processes till finish the payment.
There is a shopping cart under the user menu in each page, showing the current
status of purchasing item, when members login, they can easily find it.
Currently the site provides four donation courses for members to choose.

17. Live Support System
Visitors and members can use Live support function to get the guideline and help
when they learn.Click the button located on top left of menu area and start.
If the teacher is off line, visitors can leave a message and get feedback in short time.

18. User Point System
Registered site members have the bonus of user point system.
Members can earn points through a lot of activities, such as daily login, read articles,
post topics, etc.
Members can also use their points to get coupon code for shopping discount, raffle
game, transfer to others, etc.
Site members login and click the “My points” in user menu, then see the user points
control panel. Details about the points rules please read the introduction.

19. Affiliate Program
Registered site members can earn money for themselves by attend the site affiliate
program. They can get commission from each actual sale happened.
Site members login and enter into “Affiliate program” area, the control panel shows
the data and in “banner/text links” page, just copy the banner/text codes and paste
them into any blank area of their own sites’ banner adv, and it’s done.
The system will record data of each visitor following the member site’s banner adv to
come. Then the system also record the actual happened purchasing and calculate
the commission for the member.

20. Advertisement Auto-publishing System
Registered site members can publish their own products & service advertisement by
themselves for free.
The products & service pictures, location map, introduction, guest comments, rating
make the advertisement more attractive.
Currently publisher should pay for “Location map” and “Featured” advanced function
service.
Make sure to upload the best pictures of products and service.

21. Formal Advertisement Service
Currently the site provides formal advertisement service and email marketing service.
The advertising area are shown above, for more details please read the introduction
of “advertisement service”, and contact us.

22. Donation Course for New Hands
The site provides a formal donation
course for learners who starts from zero.
The course contains over 10 lessons,
starting from:
Basic Pinyin, with tips of how to make the
right pronunciation of Pinyin and Chinese
words,
Simple words, sentence pattern and
structure
Dialogues and Grammar, etc.
The course contains a lot of learning
materials, such as articles, video, audio,
games, quiz, downloads, extended
readings, etc. To help learners get more
efficiency & fun during the learning
process.
All lessons are following the learning path
designed by Chinese linguist, which make
the learning more effective.
The course learning duration is 30 days.

23. Donation Courses for Institutions
For Hotel Service
Contains over 10 lessons
Dialogues of applications, such as
concierge services, morning call, order
food to room, dealing with complaints.
Learner: Hotel management & staffs
For Food Service
Contains over 8 lessons
Dialogues of applications, such as
book seats, order food, service during
the dinner, payment, etc.
Learner: Restaurant staffs
For Shopping Service
Contains over 7 lessons
Dialogues of applications, such as
introduction, new products launching,
promotion, packaging, return, etc.
Learner: Store management & staffs

24. I hope it could be your best e-learning
partner when you start to learn and you can
enjoy better learning experience and get
more fun in the community!
--Mr. Zhenkai, Fa
The Founder of Mandarinlearn.com
Please help us to let more your friends know about it and If you had any questions,
please visit: www.mandarinlearn.com and contact us. Thank You!