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The paper looked into the various adversities the students of Bulacan State University in studying Mandarin as a foreign language. Mandarin language has been included in the curriculum of education course of Bulacan State University. The various areas considered were reading, speaking, listening, writing, learning materials, medium of instruction and teaching methodology. The research instrument used was created by the researcher considering the four basic skills in communications and other areas in studying Mandarin where the researcher believed students are having adversities. The study revealed that students of Bulacan State University are having problem in various aspects of the study of Mandarin as foreign language more particularly on vocabulary enrichment. The researcher developed an instructional material in Mandarin that will help enrich the vocabulary of the students thereby enhancing the students competency in the mandarin language.