When getting along with Chinese people during the process of learning in Chinese language school, better application of oral Chinese can create a congenial atmosphere. For example, if you bother others, you can say 不好意思 or 对不起. But it is not the only way. If you intend to show apology for bothering others, you can use […]
How many tones in Mandarin Chinese? The question is raised because there is a soft tone in Chinese language. Even though people often use 5 or 0 or nothing to mark the syllable of soft tone, foreigners who attend to school to study Mandarin should aware that the soft tone is not a kind of tone in Chinese. […]
It is important for overseas students to know some relevant knowledge about the subject of teaching Chineseas a foreign language when they learn Chinese in China. As a professor who engaged in this work more than 40 years, Liu Xun will give us some useful information about it. By asking what kind of subject teaching Chinese as a foreign […]
The overseas students may find it is difficult to learn Chinese language when they study in China. Therefore, teachers should prepare some proper lead-in before they begin to teach the teaching points to help learners understand and remember easier. During the process of learning Chinese, students may have been familiar with the language they have mastered. So we can […]
When you learn the two words 起来and下来, the Chinese teachers in one-on-one Chinese learning programsmay take 胖起来and瘦下来as examples. However, it might be confusing for you because both起来and下来in the two phrases indicate the meaning of “begin and will continue”. But why, the different words should be applied differently with 胖and瘦. What are the essential differences between them? Let’s take […]
Even though Chinese language learners do not know how to learn Mandarin at very beginning, they all know Chinese characters are composed of phonetic indicators and meaning elements, each has their own functions. That is to say, phonetic indicators of Chinese characters indicate the pronunciation of the characters while the meaning elements indicate the meanings. […]
As a language, if students do not practice after they learn certain points, they will forget soon. Many students may feel that the more they learn, the more they will forget when they study Chinese. Before teachers start new teaching contents, they should check students’ learning result. But the simple dictation is not beneficial. Teachers should […]
During the process of Chinese language learning, many foreign students often wonder how to learn Mandarin better because they often make mistakes in learning. For example, 房子and房间might be confusing for them. Both words have similarities in meanings and grammatical functions. If they can act as subjective, objective and attributive, they could be modified by quantifier phrase. For some example, […]
If the foreign students want to have a better understanding on Chinese language, they need to pay much attention to Chinese characters. In Chinese language, even though the phonogram has the function of indicating the pronunciation and meaning reasonably, the pity thing is that the meaning and pronunciation indicating function of meaning indicators and sound […]
Chinese dictionaries are arranged according to the radicals of Chinese characters, inheriting the principle of sorting the components in accordance with Chinese characters components in Kangxi Dictionary. However, at the same time, the sorting method based on the structures of characters is also applied to because some Chinese characters are not proper to be arranged […]