In this lesson, students learn basic greetings, and how to ask “what’s your name” in Chinese. Also, some fundamental sentence patterns and the structure of Chinese names are introduced. (If interested to know more about Chinese names, read Give yourself a good Chinese name!)

A commonly used word, “hěn 很”, first appears in this lesson. It is almost always translated into “very”. April explains the best way to understand its meaning. (It is also explained in this article: The mistranslated Chinese character - 很 hěn) 

Some cities and countries were introduced in Lesson 1. In this lesson, more are added. Moreover, students will learn how to say some major languages in Chinese, such as “Spanish”, “Portuguese”, “German”, and so on.

The focus of this lesson is to practice how to do self-introductions, and to talk about neighbourhoods. Two important sentence patterns are presented, as well as some position words, such as “left”, “in front”, and etc. April explains where these position words should go in sentences.