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Asking For Directions in Chinese

Asking For Directions in Chinese

If you are a foreigner who lives in China, you wouldn’t like to miss the opportunity to explore some of the most fascinating tourist sites which are often located in secluded corners across the country. Well, let’s put aside this topic for a moment and try to be a little more practical. Imagine you live […]

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7 Confusing Chinese Words

7 Confusing Chinese Words

One of the biggest challenges that Chinse learners are faced with is the use of synonyms in different contexts. Just like in other languages, misusing two words that share the same or a very similar meaning could sometimes make you deviate from what you really want to say. Therefore, we will take a look at […]

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5 Useful Chinese Structures

5 Useful Chinese Structures

Gaining a good understanding of different grammatical structures is essential for Chinese learners to improve their overall Chinese language skills. However, it’s certainly pretty hard to remember a large number of structures in a short time, therefore, it will be a good idea to start with some of the most commonly used structures so that […]

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Top 5 Tips to Help You Learn Chinese

Top 5 Tips to Help You Learn Chinese

What is one of the problems that most foreigners often come across during their stay in China? Language! If you happen to study or work in China, you might notice that local people’s knowledge of English is quite limited. That’s why more and more foreigners start to realize that acquiring some basic knowledge of Chinese […]

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Phrases for WeChat Conversations [Part 2]

Phrases for WeChat Conversations [Part 2]

Nowadays young people use a large number of slang and informal expressions in daily conversations, and often these words and expressions indicate “hidden intentions” in certain circumstances. In the previous article, we talked about a few essential phrases you can use during the WeChat conversation with your Chinese friends. Let’s move forward! It’s the 2nd part […]

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Essential Phrases for WeChat Conversations

Essential Phrases for WeChat Conversations

WeChat has now become an inalienable part of Chinese people’s daily life as it allows people to do many different things like booking tickets or paying bills with only a few clicks. Nevertheless, people in China mainly use WeChat to talk with each other. In this article, we will explain some of the commonly used […]

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3 Ways to Use 的 (de) in Chinese Language

3 Ways to Use 的 (de) in Chinese Language

3 Ways to use 的 (de) in Chinese Language Today we are giving beginners and elementary Chinese learners a mini-lecture on 3 ways to use 的 (de) in Chinese language. Well, if you think “的(de)” is only needed to form possessive pronouns like “my” and “your”, I’m afraid you underestimated the “ability” of this character. […]

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5 Ways to Ask a Special Question in Chinese

5 Ways to Ask a Special Question in Chinese

In our previous article, we have explained how to ask a general question in Chinese. However, that’s not enough to get by when it comes to studying or living in China, therefore this time let’s take a step further and learn 5 ways to ask a special question in Chinese like “What are you doing?”, […]

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3 Ways to Ask a General Question in Chinese

3 Ways to Ask a General Question in Chinese

A yes-no question represents itself as a grammatical structure, the answer to which is expected to be either yes or no. Questions like “Are you Jason?” or “Do you like China?” are considered to be typical yes-no questions, which means they are very often used in our daily communication with other people. In the Chinese […]

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Chinese Shopping Vocabulary

Chinese Shopping Vocabulary

As shopping plays such an important role in Chinese people’s daily lives, it’s not surprising that there are several ways to say “shopping” in Chinese. In this article, we take a look at 4 most popular Chinese words and phrases related to shopping!   Chinese Shoppers These days, tourists from China can be seen everywhere […]

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Chinese Exclamative Particles: 啊 a, 啦 la, 吧 ba

Chinese Exclamative Particles: 啊 a, 啦 la, 吧 ba

A modal or exclamative particle is an important grammatical concept in Chinese. Adding different exclamative particles at the end of your sentences can help you make your speech more vivid – and consequently, make conversations more effective. Using appropriate Chinese exclamative particles, combined with correct intonation, is an essential way to share your feelings with other people. In […]

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Mandarin Chinese in the South and North

Mandarin Chinese in the South and North

If you had a chance to talk to many Chinese locals, you might have noticed that people from different regions speak Chinese with different accents. Mandarin Chinese in the South and North can be slightly different sometimes. On one hand, it’s a relief – you don’t have to worry too much if don’t understand some […]

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3 Ways to Use Chinese ‘Hao’ in Speech

3 Ways to Use Chinese ‘Hao’ in Speech

Even if you started to learn Chinese yesterday, you must have already picked up the famous Chinese greeting which means “hello”: 你好 nǐ hǎo. Well, if we take a look at these two characters separately, it turns out that 你 nǐ means “you”, and 好 hǎo means “good”. As the literal meaning of 你好 nǐ hǎo is “you good”, it can be […]

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3 Chinese Poems All Children Know

3 Chinese Poems All Children Know

In the United Kingdom, everyone knows the words to a few songs that are taught to children at an early age. Such as “Mary Had A Little Lamb”, as well as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and the unforgettable “London Bridge is falling down”. Similarly to us, there is a lot of Chinese poems children know [...]
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