The purpose of learning a language is to put it into use to the daily conversation. To study Chinese better, this reading lesson is aimed at teaching students to learn some common expressions. Let’s take a look at the following text named “我学汉语（wǒ xué xí hàn yǔ）” 麦克(mài kè)：请问，您贵姓？（qǐnɡ wèn, nín ɡuì xìnɡ?） 张东(zhānɡ dōnɡ)：我姓张。(wǒ xìnɡ zhānɡ.) […]
One of the most frequently used idiomatic expressions that any one foreigner who study Chinese in China should know is 爱面子. It carries the meaning of be sensitive about one’s reputation or be concerned about one’s face-saving. The foreign learners who study Chinese should know that it usually used to describe somebody has great vanity. We can also used […]
It is difficult for overseas students to learn Mandarin when it comes to the compound sentences. If the clauses of a compound sentence are grammarly equal and not modify each other, this compound sentence can be called the coordinate composite sentence. Those who learn Chinese language in China should know that the coordinate composite sentence can be divided into […]
The economic activities of the language need the support of the language industry. The foreign learners who study in China should know that the language industry is the industry that regards language as the main operation target and make profits by taking advantages of the language. In order to know more about the language industry, we should […]
Here two interesting Chinese jokes that might help you learn Chinese and get to understand Chinese jokeculture. Awarding a calendar It was New Year’s Eve when a servant came to present his master’s New Year’s gift to the master of the house. The master of the house to ok down from the wall the old calendar and bade his […]
Vocabulary is the building material of a certain language. It is also the summation of all or certain words and fixed phrases in one language. Therefore, everyone who wants to study Chinese should first know more about vocabulary in Chinese language. The language is used to communicate by combing single word into sentences according to certain grammatical rules. […]
As we all know, preposition is a kind of function word used to reflect the relations between words or sentences. It can’t be functioned as a single sentence element in the sentence. For the foreigners whostudy Chinese in China, preposition in Chinese language is a difficult point. In this article, several prepositions of elementary level will be […]
The knowledge about Chinese Pinyin, radicals in Chinese characters and strokes are important for foreign students to study Chinese. Therefore, they should master them firmly. We can train them by holding a game for competing to consult the dictionary. First of all, students should prepare a Chinese-English and English-Chinese Dictionary. In this game, the most important […]
When foreigners see the group of words “腐败、腐化、腐烂、腐蚀、腐朽” when they study Chinese words, they may be probably confused. As a matter of fact, it is not so difficult because all of them mean something getting worse but with different objects and using situations. “腐败” is an adjective means corruption. It usually indicates people’s thought and action as […]
The group of similar words 残暴, 残酷 and 残忍 are often seen in free Chinese lesson but difficult to tell apart because all of them mean cruel. Firstly, 残暴 can be used to describe people’s temperament and also the specific actions of destroying, suppressing and plundering like 行为残暴. When you study Chinese in free Chinese lesson, you should know 残酷 […]