In Mandarin Chinese and many other languages, prepositions are small but mighty words that help us understand when, where, and why things happen in a sentence. For some learners, these…
One of the most common misconceptions about the Chinese language is that it doesn’t have any grammar. While it’s true that Chinese doesn’t have grammatical gender, verb conjugation, or verb…
In Chinese, you will frequently encounter words that contain the character “肉” (ròu). This is because food plays a significant role in people’s daily lives, and “肉” is an important…
We all know that “门”(a door) represents an entrance, and therefore it plays an important role in our lives. The traditional Chinese character for door is written as 門 (mén),…
好(hǎo) is one of the first characters that you’ll encounter when you start studying Chinese, and anyone can tell you that it means ‘good.’ But there’s a little more to…
Learning Chinese as an English speaker comes with many unique challenges: vocabulary, syntax, and tense to name a few. The auxiliary particle 了(le) is a common point of confusion for…
Today we are going to talk about mistakes, specifically the 20 top mistakes that Chinese learners are prone to making or make repeatedly, so that we can help you avoid…
An interjection is an exclamation, especially as a part of speech. An example of an interjection in English would be “Ah!” or “Oh!” Many of you may already know it’s…
In Chinese the sentence words order is especially important, partly as a consequence of its lack of case endings for nouns. There are no special endings of noun in Chinese…