Author: chinesespeaking

It’s a different ballgame. You didn’t mention your native language, so I don’t know your starting point. But first, with Chinese, there are no verb conjugations, no plurals, no tenses, and a lot of the things you are probably used to do not exist. A lot of things you are not used to do exist: …

Unfortunately, we don’t have the ” longest” word in China, because all our characters are individual. However, we have the most complex word. This one is “Biang”. It is the name of a kind of noodle. And we still have this one, called “da”. That means a lot of dragons fly together. BTW, I am …

There is a V sound in some Chinese dialects, such as Hakka. If you listen to northern Chinese speak, sometimes they use a V sound. But as to why there is no V sound in Mandarin, first, languages can be pretty arbitrary. English has words beginning with shr, such as shrapnel, shrink, shroud, and others, …

Grammar is useful for Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and other highly structured languages, but isn’t really that necessary for Chinese. There are no verb conjugations. A noun is just as happy to be a verb. There are no tenses. What do you need a rigorous study of grammar for? or rather, Who do you need it …

傻逼 contains two Chinese characters, 傻（Sha）: stupid 逼（Bi）: an insulting word ，that contains female genitalia and the meaning of bastard Exact Translation: stupid bastard. This is a slang word, not an official and written word.

Live in a coercive language environment where only standard putonghua or Mandarin is spoken. You will need at least 2 years to get up to speed, just to get by with the day to day. If you want to speak in a professional capacity, that requires learning the written word, and watching plenty of Chinese …