Intermediate · 15 days · ~12 min a day
Chinese for donghua.
Donghua (动画) is Chinese animation, and the fantasy and cultivation shows among them have fans all over the world. Their Chinese sounds grand because it borrows from the classical language. This course teaches you to follow it, and is careful about which of it you can say in real life.
A day is marked done when you pass its quiz at the end: get 5 of its 8 questions right.
Screen Chinese is costume. Every day marks what you can say out loud and what belongs to the story. Assumes the daily course to about day 20.
How this course is different
A listening course: the lines are short, loud and repeated from show to show
Every day sorts screen language from real language
Fantasy words that turn out to be everyday words, and why
No show, character or line is quoted: every example is written for the lesson
Unit 1 · How fantasy donghua talks
DAY 1Master, senior brother, fellow cultivatorDAY 2Realms, breakthroughs and powerDAY 3Battle cries and threatsDAY 4Oaths and vowsDAY 5Review: a whole scene
Unit 2 · Idioms, oaths and drama
DAY 6Idioms in a fightDAY 7Heaven, fate and the DaoDAY 8Sects, clans and courtsDAY 9Cries, sighs and soundsDAY 10Review: the villain's speech
Unit 3 · Watching well