Specialized · Workplace Mandarin
Business Chinese
Pro PlusProfessional Mandarin for the workplace — Master the vocabulary and phrases essential for conducting business in China and with Chinese-speaking partners. Covers meetings, negotiations, presentations, and business correspondence.
What you'll be able to do
Outcomes after completing the 20 lessons in this module — concrete, role-relevant, and cultural in equal parts.
Walk into the meeting fluent
Open with a polished self-intro, navigate seating etiquette, and steer agenda-setting in Mandarin.
Negotiate without translating
Drill the hedges, counter-offers, and face-saving phrasing real Chinese counterparts use at the table.
Polished written register
Write 邮件 (emails), 提案 (proposals), and 合同 (contracts) that read native — not translated.
Cultural intuition built-in
Each lesson unpacks the relational sub-text: 关系, 面子, banquet protocol, gift symbolism.
Voice Cast for Business Chinese
Each section of every lesson is voiced by a specific persona from the Mandarin Temple cast — a podcast host, a learner co-host, two dialogue partners, and a teacher — chosen to fit the register of business Chinese.
Every voice on Mandarin Temple is an AI-generated persona. Each speaker has a written biography, a fixed voice model, and a consistent register across lessons — but they are synthesized, not recorded by a human actor. Their bios, accents, and personalities are designed by us; the audio is rendered by a TTS model.
AI"Your guide through every word"
Taipei / Vancouver
AI"Learning it live, with you"
Melbourne / Kunming
AI"A deal at every corner"
Chengdu
AI"Precision meets fluency"
Shenzhen
Topics Covered
The 20 lessons spread across these 7 themes. Each topic gets one or more dedicated lessons with vocabulary, dialogue, grammar, and exercises.
Lessons
20 lessons across 4 units. Each lesson weaves vocabulary, dialogue, grammar, and cultural context into a single guided session — with audio from your cast, microphone speak-back, and a roleplay drill.
Lessons coming soon
This module is being authored now. The 20 lessons will cover the topics above — check back shortly, or request priority access.
Recommended books
Books that pair with Business Chinese — hand-picked, and the same list you'll find on the Business Chinese books page.
AI Superpowers
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Chinese Business Etiquette
Dealing with China
Doing Business in China
Mr. China: A Memoir
New Silk Road Business Chinese (Intermediate I)
One Billion Customers
Poorly Made in China
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Business Chinese — who it's for, what it expects of you, and how to get the most out of it.
No — it assumes solid HSK 3 footing and is pitched at HSK 4+. If you can't hold a basic introduction in Mandarin yet, start with Survival Chinese or Everyday Conversations first; they feed directly into this module's register.