In Chinese grammar, you will often come across “因为 (yīnwèi)… 所以 (suǒyǐ)…" in written Chinese as well as spoken Chinese. Better get used to it!
Tag: bahasa pertuturan
Chinese grammar:Causative verbs
Causative verbs are verbs that cause people to do things, surprisingly enough. In English, these are verbs like "make", "have" and "get", as in "get Billy to eat dinner." The "get" is the causative verb.
Never make these mistakes in Chinese 16
Foreigners often make some strange mistakes in Chinese when they study the most difficult language— —Chinese. We try to analyze typical sentences to correct these errors.
Never make these mistakes in Chinese 12
Foreigners often make some strange mistakes in Chinese when they study the most difficult language— —Chinese. We try to analyze typical sentences to correct these errors.
Number gestures in China中文数字的手势
Number gestures is various from all over the world. If you know Chinese number gestures, you can live better in China and communicate with Chinese. Chinese number gestures 汉字数字手势 refers to the Chinese method of using one hand to signify the natural numbers one through ten. This method may have been developed to bridge the many dialects in spoken Chinese– for example, the numbers 4 (Chinese: 四; pinyin: sì) and 10 (Chinese: 十; pinyin: shí) are hard to distinguish in some dialects. Some suggest that it was also used by businessmen during bargaining (i.e. to convey a bid by feeling the hand gesture in a sleeve) when they wish for more privacy in a public place.
Pronunciation systems of China
Why does every teacher would like to teach students pinyin in their first Chinese lesson? In general, pronunciation can't be derived from seeking at Chinese characters, even though sometimes characters with typical parts have comparable pronunciation. As opposed to other current written languages, Chinese characters will not be phonetic, and surely not alphabetic, but pictographic or ideographic (displaying combinations of images or symbols to convey meaning) like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Therefore there has required to be a strategy of representing in composing the pronunciation of every character when teaching the language. Many systems are actually used, but pinyin may be the current standard means of writing Chinese pronunciation.
Chinese number gestures 中文数字手势
Methods
While the five digits on one hand can easily express the numbers one through five, six through ten have special signs that can be used in commerce or day-to-day communication. The predominant [citation needed] system is as follows:
第六课 独生子女的烦恼
背景知识: 为了控制人口数量，中国政府要求进行计划生育。所以，很多孩子没有了兄弟姐妹，成了独生子女。小时候，他们觉得很幸福，很快乐，因为没有弟弟或妹妹分享他们拥有的一切。不过，长大以后，他们发现，自己身上的压力也是巨大的，没有人可以帮助他们分担。 词汇表： 课文导入： 1、你是独生子女吗？ 2、在你们国家有没有人口老龄化的问题？ 课文： 独生子女的烦恼 今年32岁的刘英做妈妈了，但是刘英却没有那么高兴，因为刘英和丈夫都是独生子女，两个人要一起照顾孩子和双方父母。压力太大了。 刘英出生的时候赶上中国政府要求计划生育，政府相信每个家庭只养一个孩子是控制人口数量的最好办法，刘英的父母从政府那里获得了“独生子女证”，那时候，刘英的父母是一家工厂的工人，每个月工资不多，尽管一家人没有多少收入，但是刘英觉得小时候还是很快乐，很幸福的。此外，刘英也为自己是独生子女而感到自豪。因为这样没有弟弟或者妹妹分享她拥有的一切。 但是现在这些独生子女已经长大了，同时带来的社会问题也是巨大的：中国人口老龄化问题。
Use 挨家挨户 to express “door to door” in Chinese
Can we use “门到门” to translate “door to door”? No, please don’t! Actually there’s a Chinese idiom perfectly fits the
The common usages of Character “将”
This post is to answer a reader’s question regarding the usage of character “将 jiāng“. It might look confusing when
Malay 
English 
French 
German 
Thai 
Vietnamese 
Myanmar