If foreign students often study Mandarin online, they may frequently see many Chinese oral expressions such as 吹了and错不了. The former one is applied to indicate it is not successful or an unsuccessful love. For example, 甲：你们假期不是要出国旅游吗？乙：吹了，我丈夫工作太忙了，没时间. However, the latter means to be very positive or confident about the speaker’s words and behaviors. For instance, 甲：你肯定是他？乙：错不了，我跟他一起住过四年呢. Foreign students […]
Many students know reading helps to understand the overall ideas of a passage or an article. The importance of reading is self-evident. The reading class needs the enthusiasm of the students and active participation of the students. If the students are lack of reading initiatives, the reading results will not be satisfactory. How to motivate […]
The background knowledge means the knowledge of the readers about the world. This kind of knowledge includes the language knowledge and the non-language knowledge. The background knowledge plays an important role in the reading comprehension process. If you are familiar with the background of the passage, you can still understand the passage though there are […]
Abbreviation is the simplified form of some complex definitions or names of something. How does abbreviation come into being? The abbreviation chooses the representative morphemes or the words and cuts the full expression into simplified forms. As many people know, abbreviation simplifies the full expression and makes the communication much more convenient. There are three […]
After learning some simple and basic Chinese characters and words, the students need to master someChinese language grammar points to organize the Chinese language and write or speak it smoothly without making mistakes. If you can do all of these, it just means you have mastered the very basic level of Chinese language. For better communication and higher Chinese language ability, […]
In daily communication with Chinese friends, those students who attend to summer program in China need to understand some expressions to smooth the conversations. For example, 也好is often said by Chinese people to accept somebody’s suggestion after his persuasion. You can feel it in the following dialogue. A:你的胃不好，咱们别要冷饮了，好吗？B:也好，那就要一壶热茶吧. If you read the sentences with the pattern 也就是…，you […]
In many cases, we have different words with the similar meanings to describe one certain meaning. However, the words with similar meanings should be used in different situations and contexts to obey to the actual atmosphere properly. Therefore, it seems really important for the overseas students to learn to distinguish the similar words. Let’s take […]
The reasons that the students fail to understand the meaning of the sentences are the long sentences and too many new words. In this case, teachers firstly remind the students of realizing that reading is not for understanding the exactly meaning of every word, in addition, they need to tell the students that many sentences […]
When the foreign students are taking intensive Mandarin course in China, they often confront the reading assignments which are related to the choosing of the right words in right sentences. The task is hard as well as challenging. When the foreign students are doing such assignments, they should at least know something about the meaning or […]
Some Chinese words seem just words but can be some important language points often used in daily conversations. Let’s take不时as an example, which is an adverb to indicate certain action, behavior or condition appears or happens for several times irregularly. In addition, the time period is relatively short and it can be said as 时不时 in some […]