Learning to recognize and speak the sounds of another language is a form of exercise, and it requires repetition. By listening to -- and repeating -- the same dialogue every day, you're training new muscle memory, and signaling to your speech recognition center that "these sounds are important."
After you've listened to Lesson 1 once, use this track as your daily practice routine. At less than four minutes, I think you'll agree getting your Mandarin off the ground is really no big deal.
Episode vocabulary:
你 ----- nǐ ------------- you
我 ----- wǒ ------------ I/me
好 ----- hǎo ----------- good/OK
聽 ----- tīng ----------- to listen, to hear
說 ----- shuō ---------- to say, to speak
會 ----- huì ------------ to be able to
不 ----- bù ------------ not
中文 --- zhōngwén ---- Mandarin / Chinese language
嗎 ----- ma ------------ [question mark]
一點 --- yīdiǎn --------- a little
對 ----- duì ------------ correct/right
吧 ----- ba ------------- [suggestion mark]
英文 --- yīngwén ------- English language
加油 --- jiāyóu ---------- Good luck! / You got this!
Episode text:
M:你好
L:你好!
M:你聽我說
L:好
M:你會說中文嗎?
L:呃...
M:你不會?
L:我不會
M:你會吧!你會說一點中文,對吧!
L:對... 我會說一點點
M:對吧!
L:那,你會說英文嗎?
M:不會
L:喔...
M:加油!!!