The group of words 来历and 来源 are applied to indicate the origin of something but have some tint differences that the foreign learners need to tell apart. When we use 来历, we usually mean the history or background of things or persons, implying the conditions of things or people in the past like 这个人有来历. 来源has the similar meaning […]
If you pay enough attention when you study in intensive Mandarin course in China, you may have found that there are many oral expressions in Chinese begin with没. This article will introduce several frequently used expressions of this type to the learners. For example, 没办法is usually applied to show that the speaker has no way to […]
The foreign students may often hear Chinese friends say 激动得不行when chatting during the process of learning in semester Chinese program in China. The point they should know is the patter …得不行 , which is applied to show the high degree. In addition, the allocated words in this structure are more often the words which describe the […]
In recent years, many foreign students come to China to attend to the Mandarin learning courses for Chinese language learning because they realize the best way is to put themselves in Chinese language environment. However, what they learned in Chinese schools is mainly grammar. To speak fluent Chinese, they need to know some oral expressions by talking more with Chinese people, […]
The characters 了and过are often used in the daily life to indicate certain things have finished and they are also the important language points in Chinese language classes. However, there are also some differences between them when being used in the actual situations. In reading process, the students who attend toschool to study in China may feel confused about […]
In the process of Chinese language learning, foreign students might often see the character 倒 in the sentences like你说得倒轻松，自己试试就知道刷漆也是个技术活了. As an adverb, 倒has several applications as follows. The first one usage that students who study in volunteer programs in China need to know is indicate something is just the opposite of the fact or the some common senses. You can say房子看上去倒不错，但房间朝向不好. […]
Each language has its own form, standing for certain voice in the language and expressing certain meaning.Chinese language is typical ideographic writing system and the form and structure of the characters can indicate the meanings of them to a certain degree. The teachers who teach Mandarin language in class may tell you that Chinese language has processed the transition from […]
When the foreign students study Mandarin in Yunnan, they say they have difficulty in distinguishing the words which have the similar morpheme in the words. For example, the words 丰富 and 丰盛 have the similar morpheme 丰. They have similar meaning which refers to the various kinds of something. But they have different meanings when […]
In Chinese language, the sentence is divided into the simple sentence and the complex sentence. We often hear people say the complex sentence is composed of several simple sentences, which is as a matter of fact incorrect saying. However, it is reasonable to regard the complex sentence as the grammar unit has a higher level than […]
In the process of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, the teachers who teach Mandarin language say the error rate of the use of adjectives tends to be high. The highest error tends to occur in the semantic and words collocation of the adjectives not only for the lower grade foreign students and the upperclassmen. In the real teaching […]