After foreign learners studied some useful expressions in Chinese language, they should be able to express them in daily life, which is the final goal of learning a certain language. Therefore, students learn Chinese in China should pay more attention to the frequently used expressions. The first one should be discussed is the phrase “不(bù)A也不(yě bù)B”, which means […]
As the overseas students who come to learn to speak Chinese in China all know, Chinese characters can be divided into the simplified characters and the complex characters. Some students may be interested in the appearance time of the simplified Chinese characters. As a matter of fact, the systematical simplification and classification of the Chinese […]
Foreigners often feel confused when they encounter the similar words that are alike in both meanings and appearance during the process when they learn Chinese in China. However, it will be easier for them to tell apart when putting them into the actual examples and situations. This lesson will illustrate several groups of synonyms to explain […]
The Chinese vocabulary will greatly affect the reading comprehension of foreign learners when they study Chinese. Since it is related to the reading skills, expanding the vocabulary in reading becomes one of the important tasks. Generally speaking, the following ways are helpful for students who study Chinese to expand the vocabulary. Firstly, teachers can arrange the words appear […]
Some foreigners are wondering whether the Chinese characters are not adaptable and imperfect in recording Chinese language when they study Chinese. They doubt it because they think the relationship between characters and morphemes are not one-for-one corresponding relation. Compared with the alphabetic languages, foreigners who study Chinese can see Chinese language does have some shortcomings, which are just the advantages of alphabetic […]
In the classroom teaching process, teachers can apply all kinds of methods to increase students’ learning interest and improve their Chinese language skills. For example, teachers can choose a poem with only the tones which are indicated by numbers like 2, 4, 1, 1, and 4. And then the students are supposed to read them […]
It is important for Chinese language learners to acquire the ability of explaining the difficult words with the simple words have the similar meaning they know. In free Chinese lesson, you may see the sentence 经姑娘父母再三催促，李刚就和梦中情人一起步入婚姻的殿堂. But you may not know 再三. According to the sentence, it should be something about “again and again”, which can be expressed […]
Generally speaking, the similar Chinese words are difficult for Chinese language learners distinguish. Several groups of such words will be illustrated to show the learners how to tell them apart. The first group of words that the foreigners who learn Mandarin in China should know are机动and灵活. As an adjective, the former one indicates to make proper changes according to […]
During the Chinese language learning process, foreign learners often make mistakes in reading the Chinese characters, which is usually indicated in three aspects. First of all, the Chinese characters with the similar forms and strokes as well as those composed of the same elements are often confusing for the students who study in online Chinese […]
It is inevitably that the foreign students often meet some new words they do not know during the process oflearning Mandarin Chinese. Therefore, it is important for them to have the ability to explain the complicated words with the simple ones. For example, the word 前往in the sentence 市长要到外地出差，我当然陪同前往 is one that students never learned. […]