Mandarin Basic Phrases

Learn Mandarin Chinese: Military-related phrases for foreign language learners

Military-related Mandarin phrases for language learners. With Mandarin text and audio.

Using this app, you can select an English phrase and view its translation and how to pronounce it in Mandarin.

This app was originally developed as an entry to the 2010 CIO/G6 "Apps for the Army" competition, and it is based on the modules publicly available online from the U.S. Defense Language Institute. While this app's subject matter relates mainly to military topics, the app is broadly useful with content relating to a range of topics.

• Contains over 600 phrases with native speaker audio recordings

• Dictionary lookup: Type or say what you want to search

• Pronunciation help: See the transliterated/Romanized text

• Good for language learning, or as a reference

This app is part of a series of phrasebook apps published for many different languages and dialects. Phrasebooks in the series are available as "basic" and "medical" variants.

• Text may be exported as Anki flash cards

• Works offline: No network connection is required

• Search bar for quick vocabulary lookup

• No login or registration needed

• Dark background color minimizes eye strain

Many of the languages covered by this series of phrasebook apps are under-resourced, with translation apps and dictionaries not widely available from other sources.

Categories

Commands, Warnings and Instructions

Helpful Words, Phrases and Questions

Greetings and Introductions

Interrogation

Numbers

Days of the Week/Time

Directions

Locations

Descriptions (Colors, Shapes, Sizes, Tastes, Qualities, Quantities)

Emergency Terms

Food and Sanitation

Fuel and Maintenance

Medical Terms/General

Medical Terms/Parts of the Body

Military Ranks

Lodging

Occupations

Customs (Port of Entry)

Relatives

Weather

General Military Terms

Mine Warfare Terms

How to use

1. Choose a subject category from the menu. That category will be expanded.

2. From the expanded list of phrases shown, tap on the phrase you want.

3. On the phrase detail page, the Mandarin phrase is shown alongside its pronunciation and the equivalent English phrase. Press the Play button to hear the audio pronunciation by a native speaker.

Ideal for

• U.S. military service members

• Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals

• Travelers

• Aid workers

• Linguists

Languages and dialects available in this series

Albanian, Algerian, Amharic, Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Egyptian, Emirati, French, Gan (Jiangxinese), Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian, Hassaniya, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa), Iraqi, Japanese, Javanese, Jordanian, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean (North), Kosovar (Albanian), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lebanese, Libyan, Lingala, Malay, Mandarin, Mongolian, Moroccan, Nepali, Palestinian, Pashto (Afghanistan), Pashto (Pakistan), Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Punjabi, Quechua, Russian, Saudi, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali, Sorani, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Venezuela), Sudanese, Swahili, Syrian, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamashek, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tunisian, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Shanghainese, Yakan, Yemeni, Yoruba

Making flash cards: Launch app and choose "Flash cards" from the menu in the top corner, and follow the prompts.