You had me at Hello

French may be the language of love, but let's be pragmatic for a moment: very few people actually speak it in China, which leads us to suspect you'll need a better strategy for breaking the ice than exhausting your collection of compliments from college French class. How about striking up the converstion in mandarin instead?

In this lesson we cover the basics of starting a conversation. You'll be using this stuff every day so get it down, keep smiling, and we think you'll be charmed by the warmth of the reaction. Of course, you can keep working on your French too, but we think you'll discover that Chinese has a certain je ne sais quoi of its own. One fifth of the world's population can't be wrong.