Abstract: This article is devoted to identifying difficulties with mastering oral speech among university students at the initial stage of learning Chinese. The author of the article sets himself the task not only to identify the purpose of teaching oral speech, but also to offer techniques to help overcome the difficulties associated with certain motivational problems, such as: the manifestation of shyness, fear of making a mistake, insufficient knowledge of lexical units, misunderstanding of the speech task. The author shares his opinion on the effectiveness of generally accepted methods of teaching oral speech of the Chinese language and offers practical tools aimed at expanding the lexical stock, developing communication skills, working out the studied material and using it in conversational practice. The hypothesis of this article is expressed in the assumption that the difficulties of learning oral speech are overcome by increasing the vocabulary, developing the skills of simple monologue and dialogic speech, as well as creating a comfortable educational environment. Based on the experience of conducting an oral Chinese course, frequent problems of university students are: inability to use additional sources, fear of unfamiliar vocabulary. Thus, it is advisable to use exercises aimed at solving these problems, namely: independent work of students, compiling their own lexical lists, working out topics of concern to them, encouraging students to communicate outside the classroom and using mobile offers or websites to train lexical units, through communication with native speakers.