Begin with 54 essential everyday words, including pronouns, verbs and common nouns. This physical deck brings Chinese characters, pronunciation and meaning together in a format you can review a few minutes at a time.
An included QR code for pronunciation audio for every word.
Thick matte cards in a portable boxed deck.
Connect symbol, sound and meaning
Try to recognize the Chinese character before you flip the card. Check its Pinyin and English meaning, then say it aloud. The straightforward layout helps you focus on the word you are learning.
Practice Mandarin’s four tones
Scan the QR code to hear each word and use the tone-marked Pinyin to guide your practice. Listen and repeat to build familiarity with Mandarin’s four main tones.
A simple daily study routine
Start with a small group of words, test your recall and separate the cards that need more practice. Review them again over time. This approach supports active recall and spaced repetition.
Made to study anywhere
Thick matte cards are built for repeated handling at home, in class, while traveling or during a commute. Review the printed cards away from a screen and use your phone when you want to hear the audio.
Who is this deck for?
Absolute beginners, early learners and travelers who want a manageable introduction to everyday Mandarin vocabulary.
My daughter uses these cards as a supplement to her homework and studying for her Chinese (Mandarin) 101 class. They've been very helpful in drilling and reinforcing her character recognition.
I like that the front of the card also includes a "hint" about whether the character represents a noun, verb, pronoun, number, etc., to help align the character with its meaning, usage and correct pronunciation. If she decides to continue with studying Chinese, I would look for these flash cards in the next level up, since they've been so useful.
Lovely cards, beautifully designed and executed. Even the box they are in is beautiful. The choice of words included are all very critical. Why not five stars? There are only 53 cards in the set. I will need lot more than that and soon in my journey to learn Mandarin.
My interest in learning Mandarin (as well as Japanese) dates back to my days of reading Chinese and Japanese poetry in English translation. If you've read poetry in translation, you usually get the sense that you are missing most of what the poet has to offer, both in meaning and technique. It is frustrating and I've tried to rectify that by learning the language of my favorite non-English poetry.
Chinese has been a long-term goal, so I ordered these cards as a way to learn the rudiments of Chinese orthography, one major language difference that must be mastered. I've found these Mandarin flashcards to be quite helpful in slowly building my acumen in recognizing and understanding the symbolic nature of the language. From that starting point these cards carefully build a rudimentary knowledge of vocabulary.
That's the strong point of these flash cards. There are also audio guides for Mandarin’s four tones, theoretically helping you to master Chinese pronunciation by scanning the card that contains a QR code. I am not particularly adept at picking up pronunciation through the scrim of internet vocal transmission. I seem to miss the accuracy of the language tones offered by a more immediate example, like a good recording or a fluent teacher. That's the major limitation of these cards. But they are quite good at providing ideogram recognition and at building a rudimentary vocabulary.
Very happy with these cards...as they are very good quality, but more importantly have high quality information in a clean way so easy to use. So these will be a good way to start learning to read Chinese, but it will not be super easy I would say, as picking up these symbols from zero knowledge...will take quite a lot of repition imo to get it down. but thats not to say it is very difficult either. These cards make it a lot easier...but it will take a lot or repitition through the cards many times...to start to get the symbols down, and likely more work above and beyond that too. But these are a great way to start.
So on one side you get the English word, with the chinese pronunciation (Pinyin), and the other side has the Chinese symbol. So it might be useful to just learn the chinese Pinyin words first, before even working on the symbols so much..as it is a lot to pick up at first. Although people can learn however they feel most comfortable. But going through these definitely has me recognizing the symbols better...and learning a very unique and anicent language...that I have always wanted to know better. So simply with this deck, and no other Chinese intstruction besides 1 or 2 brief youtube videos I perused once or twice...I now am beginning to have an understanding of reading the Chinese language. (slightly...and will take much more work to master.) But these are well done, and an excellent way to start.
The learning value that the flash cards has is very high, someone wanting to learn vocabulary,can learn. These flashcards are for vocab building and have none of the laws about language usage. This is a vocab building deck of Mandarin flashcards, that does have basic phonetic assistance but it's about vocab building and nothing else. That's not to say anything bad,it's just that there are very important aspects of the language that have to be known,before phonetics can be used accurately.For example there is Tones, a huge part of the Chinese language, so knowing the correct phonetics is essential in speaking without insulting someone. These wonderful cards are just for vocabulary building. This is not to say that these flashcards cannot be useful, they are very useful. Some languages are phonetically easier than others, Chinese is not one of those languages that is phonetically easy. None of the dialects are phonetically easy,so vocabulary building using just these flashcards,that will make it a bit harder to speak the language accurately. Unless you have an outside resource like a family member, friend or learning programs.
Again,these flashcards are perfect for vocab building. Make sure to keep working on phonetic knowledge outside of these flashcards.The packaging is gorgeous, there's enough words to properly build a vocabulary,as well as construct simple sentences. Everything seem simple enough to follow yet learn the basics or these flashcards won't have much use.
My wife is Chinese, and she's been trying to help me to learn Chinese for a while. She is always doing things like pop up randomly asking me things like how to say X or Y. However, I'm still very new and don't really even got the basics down. I figured this would be a great way for her to do things she likes but it'll be something I can remember since it isn't always something totally random and actually for beginners like myself. These cards are correctly translated which is very important it's not some poorly google translated cards this is on point she says. The size of the text is good for whether or not you are far or near sighted. I didn't have my glasses on at first and was able to get the card to look. The phrases are 100% things you need to learn beginner wise. The quality of the cards (print and paper) is very good. I expect they will last a long time with heavy use. I highly recommend these cards!
Also, for the other review that said "Great quality. Except for the repeat Ta" I want to explain this was actually correct in pinyin. The difference is actually in the "Chinese characters". On your learning journey, you'll notice this a couple of times. English has many of these situations as well if you think about it.
