2000 Most Common Chinese Words in Context

Get Fluent & Increase Your Chinese Vocabulary with 2000 Chinese Phrases (Chinese Language Lessons)

By: Lingo Mastery

Narrated by: Lin Xiong

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Have you been trying to learn Chinese (Mandarin) and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary?

Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand?

Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts?

If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 most common words in Chinese, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen.

Did you know that - according to an important study - learning the top 2000 most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84 percent of all non-fiction and 86.1 percent of fiction literature and 92.7 percent of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers!

In this book:

• A detailed introduction with tips and tricks on how to improve your learning
• A list of 2000 of the most common words in Chinese and their translations
• An example sentence for each word - in both Chinese and English
• Finally, a conclusion to make sure you’ve learned and supply you with a final list of tips

Don’t look any further - we’ve got what you need right here!

In fact, we’re ready to turn you into a Chinese speaker.... Are you ready to become one?

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Lingo Mastery (P)2020 Lingo Mastery

Useful Resource/Supplement

When learning a language, it can be useful to have a frequency dictionary to either find new vocabulary to learn, or to cross-reference to see if the word is common or not. I found this book to be a helpful supplement to other textbooks or learning programs, and it's best used in conjunction with the PDF. Otherwise, it's like listening to a dictionary, which might not be the most effective way to use the audiobook. One item that I found helpful is that groups of words are grouped into chapters, so that it's easier to jump to the desired section. The format includes the Chinese word, an example Chinese sentence, and English translation of the sentence. When listening to the book, the least useful vocabulary for me was "X is a surname," but most other words were helpful.

Very Useful Learning Tool

It's not for a complete beginner, I'd say, but now that I've gone through a big chunk of HSK2, I've started to feel very comfortable with it and it has becoming a favourite tool of mine in my personal Mandarin learning toolbox.
I read someone's review claiming that the narrator cannot say TA (他，她，它) clearly. Well, let me tell you that is bullshirt. Lin Xiong pronounces very clearly and I've had no trouble with her Mandarin pronunciation. If I had to complain about something, it would be the occasional English mishap (for example "science" is pronounced more like "signs" 😁), but the PDF clears these things out. I wholeheartedly recommend to use the PDF attachment whenever you can to get the most out of the book.
I love the model sentences, I've memorized a great number of them and I play with them and modify them to get myself better acquainted with how Mandarin Chinese is structured and how it tends to express different ideas. By HSK2 you should know enough words/characters to understand many sentences already, and it's great for practicing and learning new ones.
I keep listening to this one quite often on my way to and from work mostly, can't recommend it enough.

Pronunciation Issues

Though the Chinese was perfect, the English pronunciation was so bad or certain words that I had to rewind several times and then guess the word she was trying to say.

In future materials, I would recommend posting the extra amount to get someone with flawless pronunciation for both languages, not just the one.

Great resource

This is a great supplemental resource for learning Mandarin. It complements the text version of the book really well, as it provides authentic pronunciation to the words and sentences that may not be familiar at first reading.

This book is very useful for beginners

This book is really good for beginners who wants to learn vocabulary. Some of the words are situational and you may not use them unless you’re in China. This is a great way to learn vocabulary and to start speaking right away.

Useful in theory.

It's nice to have a list of the most common words to be able to see what gaps I have in my Chinese, However this lady is hard to listen to. Most of the time her Chinese is decent, but she pronounces things like 她 with a Pa sound instead of a Ta sound. And it's quite irritating that she cannot pronounce T's correctly in her own language.

2000 Most Common Chinese Words in Context

This is a good book if you are already learning Chinese. I don not think that a beginning student would benefit very much from this book. I did like that the word and sentence was first spoken slowly and then as one would speak regularly. It was also nice that you are given instructions to find the pdf attachment to the book. Together this is a wonderful teaching tool. If you are a beginner this is a good book to get an idea of the language but I think you need to be more advanced for this book to really be of any help. It would have been nice if the words were put in categories so that they are searchable. Mandarin is a hard language learn and this book is a repeat listen to truly learn to say the words and sentences correctly. I do not want to sit and listen over and over to find the exact word I am trying to learn at the time. Narrator Ling Xiong does a good job of pronunciation and I was able to understand what she was saying.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

What I was looking for

I study mostly through audio. This one is straight to the point, words that I need to review. I can work and listen and learn through repetition.

Good as a supplement, but can't be used standalone

Lingo Mastery's 2000 most common words provides real sentences suitable for seeing how the words are used. In this, it excels the listicle books that repeat essentially the same sentence pattern for word after word. However, this means that you are looking at some fairly complex sentences for even the most basic words. Because of this, the audio version serves well as a readalong companion if you want to listen to 20 or 30 words a day to review, refresh and pick up the odd word you haven't learned yet. But it can't be used on its own to learn. This will best serve someone around HSK 3 or 4 who is rounding out their vocabulary.

Because the English pronunciation is pretty good and this is cleanly recorded, I would give this closer to 4 1/2 stars if marketed explicitly as an add-on to the book.

Well paced and great supplement

With learning languages it's important that you are able to listen as well as read and write and comprehend. This is a solid complement to the book part that they offer and I highly recommend getting both if you are looking for a frequency list with some solid contextual examples with them.