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[Grammar]
Asking Yes / No Questions in Mandarin Chinese
There are two ways to ask yes / no questions in Mandarin: with the “ma” particle, or by using a positive / negative sentence structure.
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[Reading]
Goodbye Again, Cambridge!再别康桥
Xu Zhimo is romanticized as pursuing love, freedom, and beauty all his life. He promoted the form of modern Chinese poetry, and therefore made tremendous contributions to modern Chinese literatur
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[Vocabulary]
Top English Phrases Borrowed from Chinese
Here are the top 10 Chinese phrases that made it over the Great Wall and into the vocabularies of English speakers everywhere, with a few that might just surprise you.
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[Speaking]
换钱 Currency Exchange
Currency exchange is the main problem foreign friends met in China. We offer a simple dialogue about currency exchange. This topic can help you in the bank.
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[Speaking]
叫外卖 Ordering take-away food
If you are hungry at home, will you want to order take-away food? So the dialogue below will teach you how to order take-away food at home in Chinese.
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[Speaking]
看京剧 Watching Peking Opera
Peking Opera in China has a history of approximately 200 years. It is named “National Opera”. It is a highly comprehensive art form that includes singing, dancing, talking and acrobatic perform
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[Speaking]
Spring Festival Tradition: Cleaning House春节习俗: 大扫除
Spring festival is coming. On spring festival, Chinese will do a lot of things. The old saying in Chinese for the 24th day of the last lunar month (i.e., today) is 二十四扫房日, “the 24th is cle
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[Reading]
The legend of Chung Yeung Festival 重阳节传说
The Double Ninth Festival is called Chongyang Festival in China.The Chung Yeung Festival also has an ancient legend. From then on September 9th assume avoid the outbreak of customs handed down ye
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[Tutorials]
日本人必学的中国语100句
这是一篇日本人到中国后必须要学习的100句日常生活用语,包含了吃、穿、住、行等方方面面的常用句式,这对初到中国的日本朋友是一篇非常实用的中文入门手册,也是一本有用的生活助手。
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[Speaking]
汉语100句【泰语版】
我们根据初级汉语常常涉及的句型给初级的泰国学生总结了100句生活常用语,以此满足泰国学生在中国的基本生活,并且帮助他们解决日常生活常见问题。
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[Reading]
Confucius in the United States of America
Zhang was looking through early U.S. media archives to study the formation of American national consciousness. Much to his surprise, he found Chinese cultural traces in this "purely American" aca
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[Reading]
Different people give Confucius different meanings
孔子只是一个符号,不同的人给他赋予不同的含义,然后各取所需。Different people give Confucius different meanings in the United States of America.
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[Reading]
Confucius and Chinese people in eyes of Americans
近300年来,除了中国世代流传的孔子理念,在大洋彼岸,始终存在着一个“美国的孔子”。Confucius has been in the United States for nearly 300 years.
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[Vocabulary]
Test your Chinese Level
I provide the full list here for everyone – I hope you all find it useful. This can also be used as preparation for the IELTS speaking exam or even the HSK.
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar: Expressing any with 任何renhe
任何 is a modifier that means means "any" or "whichever, whatsoever". It is also like the English phrase "any and all, no matter what"
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[Grammar]
Usage of Chinese Number
Chinese grammar requires the use of classifiers (measure words) when a numeral is used together with a noun to express a quantity. For example, "three people" (三个人sān ge rén),
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar: Positive adjectives with "-ji le"极了
Just as 死了 can be used to intensify negative adjectives, 极了 (jíle) can be used to intensify positive adjectives.This is used in spoken, colloquial Chinese.
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar: Negative adjectives with "-si le"死了
We might say things in English like "you scared me to death!". One way to intensify negative adjectives is to put 死了 (sǐle) after them. To express the opposite you would use 极了.
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar: Indicating the whole with "quan"全
One of the uses of 全 (quán) is to indicate the entirety of something. It could be used for something like a whole household, an entire country, the whole world, etc.
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[Grammar]
Chinese grammar:Adjectives with "name" and "zheme"
In Chinese, 那么 (nàme) and 这么 (zhème) serve the same function.All you have to do to use this grammar structure is put the 那么 or 这么 in front of the adjective.