Today I will write a review of the ‘Survive in Chinese’ videos on FluentinMandarin. The website comes from the very admirable vision of 25 year old Chris parker to “share with everybody the message that fluent Mandarin is within (their)…
Make a wish upon a... Horse? Bringing New Year's Tidings on "Horseback". As many of you may know, the Spring Festival began on January 31, marking the beginning of the new Chinese year of the horse also known as Chinese…
Although each Mandarin Chinese character correlates to one spoken syllable, you need to learn the pronunciation of each character because the written form generally doesn’t indicate the way it should be pronounced. Fortunately, there are only a few basic sounds…
We will explain why you have to master the Chinese tones through two sentences. They would have the exact same pronunciation except different tones on shui and jiao. Sentence A: xiǎo jie, shuǐ (the third tone) jiǎo (the third tone)…