Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin makes learning to speak Chinese easy by eliminating all of the problems associated with traditional classroom and audio courses, and presenting the material through an intuitive and easy to use interface. Users guide themselves through over one hundred lessons. Each lesson contains a real world conversation between two native speakers. Conversations are further broken down into individual sentences which include pronunciation, meaning, pinyin, characters, and the literal translations of the words that make up the sentences. Once the user has gone through a lesson, the items from that lesson can be added to a flash card section of the program for review. Items from all sections can be added to the flash card section for review. Other sections of the program include a talking dictionary and a section that teaches pinyin. The program contains vocabulary and phrase sections, which together contain over 2500 of the most commonly used vocabulary and phrases.