Since the Chinese Year was held in France, many more reports about the Chinese fever phenomena in foreign countries appeared. Some media started to report the numbers of the foreigners who study Chinese. Some said the number in 2009 reached 40 million and some claimed 100 million in the end of 2010. Some of the foreign […]
If you want to learn Mandarin better, you’d better learn more Chinese words so that you can express what you want to say when talking with Chinese people. Learning similar words is a good way to expand your vocabulary. For example, Chinese people often use the word 例如or 比方to take examples. But there are some tiny differences […]
Everyone who wants to acquire Chinese language when they study in qualified Mandarin program should firstly have better understanding on Chinese words, especially those similar words. 均匀and 平均are a group of similar words that the foreign students should tell apart. The former means the things are spread equally, stressing the well-distributed things in number or the time interval. You […]
Singapore is a multi-nation and multi-culture nation. With a total percentage of 77%, foreign citizens of Chinese origin take the absolute advantage. Just as we all know, Singapore has been promoting a long term policy that to regard English as the main language spoken by citizens. As a result, Singapore has lost the natural environment […]
If you often watch the Chinese ancient costume teleplays during the process when you study at Chinese language school, you may often hear the actors say 来人哪. As a matter of fact, this phrase is also frequently used in modern life with the function of shouting for help like 来人哪！有人晕倒了！One thing you should know is that […]
In order to express the meaning of indicating something, there are two words for the Chinese languagelearners to choose, 体现and表现. However, when you attend to summer program in China, you may be told that the former one is used to say a certain nature or phenomenon is expressed specifically by certain thing like 这幅画体现了画家对大自然的热爱. Usually speaking, 体现is […]
For the overseas students who just begin to learn to speak Chinese, they may often make sentences with various mistakes. In this case, it is important for them to read some simple and short sentences often used in daily conversations. In the following parts, some sentences with different types of mistakes are listed and explained in […]
If you often talk to Chinese people when you attend to Chinese school to study Mandarin, you may often hear Chinese friends speak some expressions to show respect or politeness. For example, the polite formula 先走一步is used when the speaker wants to leave earlier than the other party. Sometimes it is used when the speaker can’t […]
In order to expand the Chinese vocabulary of Chinese language learners and improve the ability of telling apart the similar words in Chinese, the following parts will focus on the explanation of three groups of words in meanings and application, namely, 交叉 and交错, 交换and交流as well as 骄傲and自豪. For the first group, 交叉means several lines of things of this shape […]
There are more and more foreigners come to China for Chinese language learning in recent years. The top concern of those learners should be how to learn Mandarin quickly and efficiently. Reading is a good way recommended to improve the comprehensive Chinese language ability. Of course, there are also a variety of methods to practice the reading skill. In the following […]