Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
chinesespeaking China adopted the Pinyin system in 1958 as the system for representation of pronunciation tone for Putonghua, which is Mandarin. Prior to this, Mandarin pronunciation …
Yes, you are right. I live in Johannesburg and can see more and more people around me learn Chinese language. They have different purposes. Some …
Build upon the basic elements that people already taught you. Almost everything can be understood as a combination of elements. 林 – two trees = …
The answer is yes. Chinese, unlike many other language, doesn’t have some names so you can choose. When parents in China named the babies, they …
In my experience, no. At least, not compared to learning other languages as a second or other language. Mandarin has no gender, no case, no …
Well, Mandarin is the standard spoken Chinese language. And when Chinese people from different regions talk together, they could use Mandarin as the bridge of …
I started learning Mandarin few years ago myself and have found these resources to be quite helpful: Learning Chinese Online Page – a great website with …
Well, since you didn’t mention your full name, I just view this Chinese name that your Chinese teacher gave to you. With regard to Huang …
打酱油, which literally translates to “buy soy sauce” can be used in two context. Context 1, which is perhaps the most common one. It means …
I see you are using simplified Chinese. If you use traditional Chinese, you wouldn’t get confused, because they are two different characters: 幹 (bad word) …