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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…