How to Write Chinese Characters (Quick Start Guide)
I`ve been a Chinese teacher for a long time and I’m frequently asked about writing Chinese characters. This article will summarize my thoughts on this issue which I hope will…
I`ve been a Chinese teacher for a long time and I’m frequently asked about writing Chinese characters. This article will summarize my thoughts on this issue which I hope will…
Learning Chinese has been one of the most rewarding and most humbling journeys of my life - and it‘s far from over. It took me a first few months to…
If you're raising your child to be bilingual in Chinese and you don't have the benefit of living in China, then one fantastic way to practice with your Children would…
If you want to say "because" or "so" in Mandarin Chinese, we can help. You might know "because" as "因为" (yīnwèi) and "so" as "所以" (suǒyǐ), but there are other…
When Chinese learners reach the intermediate or advanced stage, they encounter synonyms and have to navigate the nuances between them. Differentiating between these words is crucial to improving mastery of…
A huge bulk of the words in Chinese are compound words, consisting of two or more characters put together. Even if you’re already aware of the fact that Chinese characters…
You may be wondering, as someone studying Mandarin, if there is any difference in the learning methods of beginners and advanced students? If we use the same methods from the…
A real question many Chinese learners will encounter early is how to express future events. In Chinese, we have a series of time words to address that: “将来”(jiānglái), “未来”(wèilái), “以后”(yǐhòu)…
You may have hit a wall in the study of Function words in Chinese. Maybe you have mastered Function words like “着”, “了”, “过”, but the next step is to…