The predicate-object compound is an important point in Chinese language. When you study Chinese, you should know the morphemes in the former part are usually verbal while the latter are mostly nominal, forming the structure of verbs +nouns. The former morphemes dominate the latter ones. For example, 管家, what 管 does is 家. In this way, when […]
The three characters 还、又 and 再are usually confusing for those foreigners who just study Chinese because all of them are adverbs carrying the meaning of “again” in English. 还 indicates that the certain phenomenon continues to exist and the actions continue to process. It is similar to “still” like 他还不知道这件事. It also carries the meaning that further […]
The components of Chinese characters either indicate the meanings or pronunciation. But some of the components have nothing to do with the meanings or pronunciation. If the ideographic components of Chinese characters do not indicate the meanings of the characters, the students who study in China should know there must be some changes in the meanings of […]
Among so many important language points in Chinese language, the differences and features are indicated by contrast. If teachers in Chinese language school can apply the contrast method to the teaching properly, it is beneficial to strengthen the impression and deepen the recognition. As a matter of fact, the contrast method can be divided into the inter-language contrast […]
Among so many Chinese words, some similar groups are easy to distinguish from the meaning or application while some are difficult to tell apart. When foreign learners meet this difficulty, the teachers in Chinese learning programs may suggested them study by making more typical sentences. For example, 培养and培育is a typical group. Usually, the former one means […]
If you intend to have a better understanding of Chinese language and communicate with Chinese people easily, you should learn some frequently used oral Chinese expressions during the period when you study in China. For example, when you hear your Chinese friends say凭什么, you should know it is applied to question the reason of doing something in this […]
When the overseas students go certain place to learn Chinese, they may encounter different difficulties and make various kinds of errors during the process of learning Chinese. One of the errors which will be discussed in the following paragraphs will be the errors during the acquisition of interrogative sentence for overseas students. The three kinds […]
In order to speak Chinese language more fluently, those who attend to Chinese school to study Mandarin should know more common and understandable expressions. In daily life, you may often say 再见 when you see somebody off. But it is not the only pattern because you can also say 慢走 to see somebody off, which carries the meaning of […]
Many foreign students are perplexed with the two forms of Chinese characters when they take HSK preparation program in China. The Chinese characters experiences two kinds of character styles through the history, namely, the simplified characters and the original complex form of a simplified Chinese character. With the development of the characters, some people consider […]
When the foreign students attend the intensive Mandarin course in China, they will come across some different kinds of interrogative sentences. Today we will talk about tow kinds of interrogative sentences. The two kinds of sentences are the non-interrogative sentence and specific question. Now let’s see them one by one. The first kind of interrogative […]