Since more practice is essential to study Mandarin Chinese better, those foreign learners should talk more with their Chinese teachers or friends. But during this process, they should know some useful and frequently used expressions. For example, when Chinese people say相对来说, they usually mean to draw a conclusion after comparison. You can make sentence like最近计算机方面的人才很受市场欢迎，相对来说，其他专业的人找工作不太容易. During the learning process, […]
Learning the similar words in Chinese language together is a good method. But one point needs much attention is to tell apart the tine differences between the similar words. For example, the words明白and清楚are a group with similar meaning. However, each character in Chinese is unique and can’t be totally replaced by a certain word. Therefore, it is […]
Most foreigners want to speak fluent Chinese language when they study in China. In this case, they should practice more Chinese oral expressions in daily learning. For instance, 再说吧often appears in oral Chinese, which has the function of meaning that something can be left to be dealt with in the future, sometimes used for polite declination. A: 你想不想买一辆汽车？B：等有了钱再说吧. […]
Many overseas students ask this question because they may think -儿 is the phenomenon only exists in Beijing dialect, which was actually proved to be wrong. When the foreigners learn in some free Chinese lessons, they will be taught -儿 is not unique to Beijing dialect. It also exists in the dialects in the areas of […]
The abbreviation in Chinese is the simplification of Chinese words and is also a kind of word formation way in modern Chinese. When you reading Chinese passage, it is good for you to know the abbreviations in Chinese words or phase. In order to express their intention conveniently, they usually simplify the long words into shorter ones. […]
For the students who are studying Chinese in China, there are some similar word combinations which may confuse the students. The word combinations may be like the following word groups such as 心里and 心理, 心愿and 志愿, 信念and 信心. The word groups have a same word root. The first word group has the same word root心 which […]
Both 愿意and肯are operative verbs in Chinese language which are used before the verbs. But there are some tiny differences between the meanings and they can’t replace each other. The former is applied to express people’s psychological feeling, which is to say, somebody is willing to accept and even love to do something, without unhappiness or being forced. However, […]
The rhetoric in Chinese language is not only an essential part in Chinese, but also an important factor in Chinese culture. The application of many specific rhetoric expression habits and figures of speech such as analogy, exaggeration, anadiplosis and palindrome are gradually formed in long-term language activities of Han people. As a result, they are full of strong cultural coloring, […]
The idiomatic expressions are often used in daily conversations which can express the meanings intended to say indirectly. Usually speaking, there are two main characteristics in Chinese idiomatic expressions, namely, the unity of meaning and the stability of the structure. As a matter of fact, some of students who volunteer in China might be told that the […]
There is relation between the meanings of the clauses in a sentence. The relation of the clauses is represented by the grammar from. The reflection of the relation of the meaning is threefold. We will talk about the three aspects of the relation. When the foreign students are learning Chinese, they should know the three kinds […]