Mandarin for China Sourcing 采购普通话实战包 (89 pages, 80 audio clips) - Sourcing Chinese Preparation Pack
Your supplier says 样品和成品差不多一样, and you relax. You shouldn't.It means the final product is ALMOST the same as the sample you are looking at. What you've actually been told is that there's a difference, and that nobody wanted to describe it. Four thousand units later, you find out what.This pack is the Chinese that protects your money: how to verify a supplier, write a specification that can't be misread, hold a payment term, and hear what you're really being told.What's inside Part One · Before you send anyone moneyWhere buyers actually look, and why the same goods from the same factory cost less on the platform you've never used. The first message that gets a real quote instead of a catalogue. How to ask for a business licence — and the one line on it that settles whether you're talking to a factory or a middleman. Part Two · Making the deal, and making it stickThe factory visit. The red stamp that outranks a signature, and the one kind you must never accept on a contract. Four payment requests that should stop you cold. Then the two habits that prevent most problems ever happening: saying it precisely, and confirming it in writing. Part Three · Working with themHow a supplier relationship actually forms, and how factories quietly rank their buyers. Every negotiating tactic you'll meet, and — the part that saves money — where to stop. What to say when you didn't catch it. And what your own words give away. Part Four · When it goes wrongLate, wrong, or gone quiet. How to escalate without ending the relationship — including the one sentence that makes going over someone's head survivable. Part Five · The tableThe dinner where the deal actually moves. Where to sit, when business starts, and how to decline a drink gracefully. Part Six · Swap sheetsTwenty words each for building materials, textiles, electronics, furniture, packaging and general goods — with the failure mode specific to each. What you get An 89-page PDF, 20 sections, designed to be printed and written on 80 audio clips — every phrase read aloud, in two voices, in named folders matching the PDF The China Calendar — the four-to-six week shutdown hiding behind an eight-day holiday, and the month that quietly decides whether your order lands on time A one-page trip card for your bag Every phrase at two levels — one usable at HSK 1–2, one that sounds like a buyer who's done this before And a call with me20-min live video call included. A message you're not sure how to word, a reply you can't read, or a term you're about to agree to. Booking link is inside the pack. Calls open 24 August 2026, a few each week.If you want longer, there's a 60-minute session for $75 — link in the pack, sessions from 1 September 2026.Interviewing at Chinese companies too? This pack is bundled with Mandarin for Job Interview (面试普通话实战包) — both together for $59.Who it's forYou're buying from China, or about to. First order or fiftieth. You have some Chinese, and you'd rather not be the buyer who finds out what everything meant afterwards.Who it isn't forThis is a language and etiquette pack, not legal, customs or trade advice. It won't choose a supplier for you or tell you whether to sign. What it does is make sure you can ask the right question in Chinese, understand the answer, and recognize the replies that should make you slow down.Written by a native speakerI'm a native Mandarin speaker, and I write everything myself. Every phrase is checked line by line for register — buyers speak differently from job candidates, and a pack that gets that wrong is worse than no pack at all.What this is, and what it isn'tThis is a language pack. It teaches you what to say to a supplier in Chinese, how to say it precisely enough that it can't be misread, and how to hear what you're actually being told.It is not legal, customs, tax or trade advice. It won't choose a supplier for you, tell you whether a document is valid, or tell you whether to sign. Where the rules move quickly — tariffs, customs, import requirements — it tells you what to check and who to ask, rather than printing a number that will be wrong by the time you read it.The readings of indirect language describe common patterns, not rules. Suppliers are individual businesses run by individual people. The same phrase can mean different things in different rooms, and your experience may differ from someone else's.Use it to ask the right questions and understand the answers. For anything with legal or financial consequences — contracts, payments, disputes — take it to a qualified professional.The same applies to the calls. The 20-minute and 60-minute sessions are language coaching. I'll help with what you say and how you say it — not with whether to take the job, choose that supplier, or sign the contract.Refund PolicyIf it isn't what you expected, email me within 30 days, and I'll refund you. Tell me what was missing while you're at it — that's genuinely how the next version gets better.Instant download · PDF and audio · $39 USD · hello@mandarinfio.com
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