🎥 Speaking Mandarin: Bronze 1
🧾 Intro / Reflection
I’ve been studying Mandarin on and off for about a year and half, but I recently reset everything to start fresh with my new ranking system. It helps me actually track what I’ve learned and this week flew by. Bronze 1 was a solid foundation review: greetings, basic grammar, numbers, and all the “hi, I exist!” kind of stuff.
I’ve struggle with a mental block with my identity of being Chinese, as well as not being a big fan of the language itself due to how I grew up, but I’m slowly working through it to make my pronunciations better.
I’m also doing this while making some side cash with beer money apps, stacking wins and vocab at the same time. 👇
💸 Earn While You Learn
I like to stack beermoney while I study languages, most of these apps are super low-effort and just give me a nice bonus on top of learning. It’s not job-replacement money, but it adds up, especially since I’ve become more introverted. 👇
💸 Beermoney Earnings – July
🎮 Justplay: $181.55
📝 Paidviewpoint: $62.85
📱 Inboxdollars: $25.00
📱 Surveyjunkie: $25.00
📱 Qmee: $20.00
📱 App Karma: $50.00
💰 Total: $364.40
👉 See my full earnings report
📚 What I Learned This Rank
✅ Bronze 1 Complete:
| Category | Covered |
|---|---|
| Greetings | ✅ |
| Personal pronouns (I, you, he/she) | ✅ |
| “To be” verb | ✅ |
| Days of the week | ✅ |
| Numbers 1–10 | ✅ |
| Please/Thank you/Yes/No | ✅ |
| Basic SVO sentence structure | ✅ |
🧠 Examples of What I Can Say Now
Nǐ hǎo, Wǒ jiào Andy.
Wǒ shì zhōngguó rén.
Jīntiān shì xīngqítiān.
Shì de. Bù. Xièxiè. Qǐng.
Yī, èr, sān, sì…
📝My Mandarin notes
✏️ Sentence structure
Subject-Object-Verb (SOV)
👋 Greetings & Self-Intro
- Nǐ hǎo – Hello
- Wǒ shì Andy – I’m Andy
- Wǒ jiào Andy – My name is Andy
- Hěn gāo xìng rènshì nǐ – Nice to meet you
shì vs jiào – I am | my name is (To be called)
🌍 Nationality
- Zhōngguó rén – Chinese
- Měiguó rén – American
Country + rén (person) = nationality
🙋 Yes / No / Politeness
- Shì – Yes
- Bù – No
- Xièxie – Thank you
- Qǐng – Please
🔢 Numbers 1–10
- Yī – 1 | Èr – 2 | Sān – 3 | Sì – 4 | Wǔ – 5
- Liù – 6 | Qī – 7 | Bā – 8 | Jiǔ – 9 | Shí – 10
📅 Days of the Week
- Xīngqī yī – Monday
- Xīngqī èr – Tuesday
- Xīngqī sān – Wednesday
- Xīngqī sì – Thursday
- Xīngqī wǔ – Friday
- Xīngqī liù – Saturday
- Xīngqī rì – Sunday
Xīngqī (week) + numbers 1-7 = day of the week
🧠 Core Pronouns & Verb
- Shì – To be (used for identification and description)
- Wǒ – I
- Tā – He / She
- Wǒmen – We / Us
- Nín – You (formal)
- Nǐmen – You all (informal)
- Nínmen – You all (formal)
- Tāmen – They
pronoun + men = plural version
✅ Bronze 1 Mandarin Test Results
- ni hao – ✅ Correct
- wo jiao andy – ✅ Correct
- hen gaoxin renshi ni – ✅ Almost perfect. Minor typo: should be gaoxing, not gaoxin, but this is just a typo. ✔️PASS
✅ 2. Personal Pronouns & Basic Sentences
- wo shi meiguo ren – ✅ Correct
- ta shi zhonguo ren – ✅ Correct
- ni shi wo de pengyou – ✅ Correct
Great S-V-O structure and personal pronouns used correctly! ✔️PASS
✅ 3. Yes/No + Please/Thank You
- shi de – ✅ Correct (though usually just “shi” is fine)
- bu shi – ✅ Correct
- qing – ✅ Correct
- xie xie – ✅ Correct
✔️PASS
✅ 4. Numbers 1–10
- yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu, shi
Only typo was “chi” instead of qi (for 7), but clearly just a spelling issue. ✔️PASS
✅ 5. Days of the Week
- xinqi yi, xinqi chi
Small note: “xinqi” should be xingqi, and “chi” again should be qi.
So: xingqi yi (Monday) and xingqi tian or xingqi ri (Sunday)
Still, I can tell you understood the structure and had the right idea. Minor spelling errors only. ✔️PASS
🏅 Verdict: Bronze 1 — PASSED!
You’re solid on all required areas. Just watch for little typos like qi vs. chi, and xingqi vs. xinqi. These are small and don’t affect understanding in conversation.
✔ Translation structure
🔗 Next Steps / Goals
Next up: Bronze 2 – talking about time, likes, hobbies, and everyday activities. I’ll slow it down a bit here since this will be new ground.
📚 Resources I Used
- ChatGPT (for generating practice sentences + breakdowns + tests)
- YouTube (for native audio + immersion)
- Google Translate (quick checks)
- Stacking time with beermoney apps while I study – monotonizing progression.
Learning + Earning is the lifestyle I’m building. - My language language learning structure (coming soon)
🌍 Bonus Resources You Might Like
- 🧠 Duolingo – decent for language base, I personally don’t like it.
- 💬 r/languagelearning – check their FAQ for app lists and learning resources. I rarely browse, but it’s a popular hub.
💸 Beermoney Glossary:
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👉 Beermoney reviews
📈 Monthly Earnings Tracker:
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👉 Monthly earnings
🌍 Language Learning Glossary:
Curious what languages I’m learning? Check out my Language Learning Glossary for weekly progress updates. I post short speaking videos, track my progress, share my personal study notes, and break down the rank criteria I follow.
👉 Language progress