Learn with animation: A couple of common verbs, and pets
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The characters in this video are traditional Chinese, but they have the same pronounciation as simplified Chinese, namely Mandarin. The sound quality is low, there is a bit of noise in the background, the video also lacks pinyin subtitles.
But there are useful summaries for the important words in the video. Here they are with Pinyin: 1. pǎo bù : run 2. tiào : jump 3. fēi jī : airplane 4. gǒu : dog 5. liù gǒu: to walk the dog 6. kě ài : lovely 7. māo : cat
This video (see at YouTube) is of medium level difficulty. It has subtitles in English and Chinese characters.