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Your practical, free, comprehensive online resource for Chinese pronunciation, tones, and pinyin. 599 articles and growing!

Have you Learned Pinyin?

Pinyin Popup Plugins

Congratulations! That's the first major step to learning Chinese. With the right free browser plugins installed, you can now start making sense of any Chinese text you encounter on the web.

Try it out with this: 你会中文吗？

Pinyin Syllables

Certain Chinese words appear in lots of different grammar points. Get clear on how these words work in different ways by examining the keyword pages. Here are some examples to get you started:

English Translations

Sometimes it's useful to start with English words and look at the different ways those English words can be translated into Chinese. Here are some English words worth a closer look in translation:

There are about 100 English translation words in the full list. Check it out.

We got your Textbooks Covered

This is the Internet Age, but it's not yet time to throw out those textbooks! We see the value in textbook grammar explanations and exercises, and are doing our best to link textbook to the Chinese Grammar Wiki content. To see how it works, try finding your own textbook in our list, and then seeing what it links to. Purchasing these books by clicking on the textbook references linked within this website will also help to support this project.

About AllSet Learning

AllSet Learning is a Shanghai-based learning consultancy dedicated to helping foreigners better learn Mandarin Chinese. This wiki is maintained by John Pasden and the rest of the team at AllSet Learning. While many of the company's services are only available to clients physically in Shanghai, this wiki is open to the public through a Creative Commons license.

You can also find us on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Google+.

All content on this wiki © AllSet Learning, and may not be reproduced without attributions or used for commercial purposes.

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+==Have you Learned Pinyin?==
+[[File:Popup-Plugins-3.png|link=Tools#Browser Extensions: Pinyin Popups|left|Pinyin Popup Plugins]]
+Congratulations! That's the first major step to learning Chinese. With the right '''[[Tools#Browser Extensions: Pinyin Popups|free browser plugins]]''' installed, you can now start making sense of any Chinese text you encounter on the web.
+Try it out with this: <span class="liju">你 会 中文 吗 ？</span><br clear="all" />
+==[[Pinyin Syllables]]==
+Certain Chinese words appear in lots of different grammar points. Get clear on how these words work in different ways by examining the keyword pages. Here are some examples to get you started:
+==[[Translations|English Translations]]==
+Sometimes it's useful to start with English words and look at the different ways those English words can be translated into Chinese. Here are some English words worth a closer look in translation:
+<div class="flat" style="font-size:110%">
+* [[very]]
+* [[then]]
+* [[also]]
+* [[and]]
+* [[but]]
+* [[or]]
+* [[after]]
+* [[all]]
+* [[always]]
+* [[have]]
+* [[just]]
+* [[at]]
+* [[because]]
+* [[for]]
+* [[in]]
+* [[more]]
+* [[want]]
+* [[about]]
+* [[again]]
+* [[almost]]
+* [[although]]
+* [[both]]
+* [[can]]
+* [[either]]
+* [[every]]
+* [[go]]
+* [[later]]
+* [[really]]
+* [[too]]
+* [[will]]
+* [[able]]
+* [[already]]
+* [[before]]
+* [[etc.]]
+* [[how]]
+* [[however]]
+* [[is]]
+* [[less]]
+* [[need]]
+* [[so]]
+* [[some]]
+* [[therefore]]
+* [[when]]
+</div>
+There are about [[Translations|100 English translation words in the full list]]. Check it out.
+==We got your Textbooks Covered==
+This is the Internet Age, but it's not yet time to throw out those textbooks!  We see the value in textbook grammar explanations and exercises, and are doing our best to link textbook to the Chinese Grammar Wiki content.  To see how it works, [[Chinese textbook grammar index#Textbooks|'''try finding your own textbook in our list''']], and then seeing what it links to. ''Purchasing these books by clicking on the textbook references linked within this website will also help to support this project.''
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+== About AllSet Learning ==
+[http://www.allsetlearning.com/ AllSet Learning] is a Shanghai-based learning consultancy dedicated to helping foreigners better learn Mandarin Chinese.  This wiki is maintained by [https://plus.google.com/104115976790023245464/?rel=author John Pasden] and the rest of the team at AllSet Learning.  While many of the company's services are only available to clients physically in Shanghai, this wiki is open to the public through a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons license].
+You can also find us [http://www.facebook.com/AllSetLearning on Facebook], [http://www.twitter.com/allsetlearning on Twitter], and [https://plus.google.com/b/113862655455378800247/113862655455378800247/about on Google+].
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