Tag: Chinese phrases

Growing up with Chinese Lesson 6 Nationality

Growing up with Chinese（成长汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. This series teaches 300 of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to the Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.

Key words:
新 xīn:new
哪 nǎ:which
国 guó:country
人 rén:person
你是哪国人 nǐ shì nǎguórén:what nationality are you？:
英国 yīngguó:England
美国 měiguó:U.S.A.
书 shū:book
秘密 mìmì:secret
不是 búshì:be not

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Growing up with Chinese Lesson 5 Simple Enquiries

Growing up with Chinese（成长汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. This series teaches 300 of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to the Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.

Key words:
这 zhè:this
那 nà:that
是 shì:is
这是什么 zhè shì shénme:What’s this？
知道 zhīdào:to know
哪 nǎ:where
吗 ma:to indicate a question sentence
你知道这是哪儿吗 nǐ zhīdào zhè shì nǎr ma:Do you know where this is?
好朋友 hǎo péngyou:good friend
同学 tóngxué:classmate
弟弟 dìdi:younger brother
的 de:belonging to,used after an attribute
看 kàn:look

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Growing up with Chinese Lesson 4 Age

Growing up with Chinese（成长汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. This series teaches 300 of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to the Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.

Key words:
多 duō: much,many
大 dà: big
了 le;: to indicate the completion
呢 ne : used at the end of an interrogative sentence
几 jǐ: how many
岁 suì: age
多大 duō dà: how old
多高 duō gāo : how high
多远 duō yuǎn : how far
十六岁 shíliù suì: sixteen

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Growing up with Chinese Lesson 3 Name

Growing up with Chinese（成长汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. This series teaches 300 of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to the Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.

Key words:
老师 lǎoshī:teacher
叔叔 shūshu:uncle
阿姨 āyí:aunt
我 wǒ:I
姓 xìng:surname
叫 jiào:to call
什么 shénme:what
名字 míngzi:name
也 yě:also

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Growing up with Chinese Lesson 2 Thanks

Growing up with Chinese（成长汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. This series teaches 300 of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, known to the Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.

Key words:
谢谢 xièxie:thanks
谢谢你 xièxie nǐ:thank you(informal)
谢谢您 xièxie nín:thank you(formal)
不 bù:no
用 yòng:need,to use
不用谢 búyòngxiè:Don't mention it.
客气 kèqi:polite
不客气 búkèqi:You're welcome.
没事 méishì/没事儿 méi shìer：It's alright.You're welcome.

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Choose a good Girl’s Name is very important

Chinese people always think that it’s great important to choose a good Girl’s names. Because the old saying goes, have a good name, have a good fate. In Chinese earliest dictionary, it was explained as follows: name contained the invisible fate. Fate was intangible and negative, it coincided with ‘the hidden material’, on which the Western scientists are working hard to find out. With concrete form and meaning, name belonged to the positive symbol of characters. For every specific person, it functioned far more than just a code.

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