20 Questions to Get You from Zero Chinese to Basic Fluency (Part 3)
Part 1: Questions 1 ~ 5 Part 2: Questions 6 ~ 10 Part 3: Question 11 ~ 15 Part 4: Question 16 ~ 20 #11: How to ask do you have a fork in Chinese We are having some trouble…
Slang Similarities in English and Chinese
In the process of learning Chinese, you may find that many slangs or idioms between Chinese and English are similar, like in English “a piece of cake”and in Chinese “小菜一碟 xiǎo cài yì dié”, both expressing how easy something is;…
20 Questions to Get You from Zero Chinese to Basic Fluency (Part 2)
Last time we took a look at how to say, "How many people are in your family?" in Chinese. If you missed that discussion, take some time to
go back and answer the question in the reply. Today we will learn basic Chinese for Part 2
Top Four Tools to Help You Learn Chinese Pronunciation and Pinyin
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…
20 Questions to Get You from Zero Chinese to Basic Fluency (Part 1)
Part 1: Questions 1 ~ 5 Part 2: Questions 6 ~ 10 Part 3: Question 11 ~ 15 Part 4: Question 16 ~ 20 In this series we will take a look at approximately 20 basic, high frequency questions and…
Some Tips on Past Tenses Illustration (Intermediate Level)
Example: “我吃了火锅” 1. We know that when you add “了” after a verb, it indicates that this action happened at some time in the past, like“我吃了火锅” just means “ I ate a hotpot.” In this sentence, you can also put…
Why You Have To Master Chinese Tones
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)…
9 Useful Chinese Conversational Phrases You Need Know
After completing an intensive study of Chinese language and culture for five years, with a stay of one year in Singaore and three years till date in China, I have discovered that in my daily mundane Chinese conversation, I have…