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...
Last week, we already looked at some Chinese idioms with a “dog” character. Are you ready for 4 more? Let’s see which idioms we missed! 1. 狐朋狗友 (Hú Péng Gǒu Yǒu) 狐 (hú) is “fox”; 朋 (péng) means “friend”; 狗 (gǒu) is “dog”; 友 (yǒu) is another...
There’re so many chengyu (成语 chéngyǔ), or idioms, in Chinese language! Even if you study the language for several years, there’re still so many idioms you still don’t know. Today, we are going to look at four chengyu that have one thing in common: they all use dogs as...
Hello, friends! In this week’s video, our teacher shows 10 different ways how to say “I Love You” in Chinese. 5 of them are phrases, and 5 – numbers. In China, you can also use numbers instead of just taping words. In English, we use 2 for “to”, 4...
There is a special group of Chinese characters which consist of three identical parts. This character structure is called 品字结构 (pǐnzì jiégòu). In general, these characters are rarely used in daily life, and mostly seen in ancient Chinese literature. However, there are...
In the second part of Chinese Internet Slang 2018 series, let’s look at 5 more slang words and phrases that became viral on the Chinese Internet in 2018. 1. 官宣 (Guānxuān) 官宣 (guānxuān) means “official announcement”. This word became popular among netizens in...
