Tag: Spoken Chinese

Chinese language

Chinese (汉语 / 漢語; Hànyǔ or 中文; Zhōngwén) is a group of related but in many cases mutually unintelligible language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

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Have You Eaten Yet?

Recently, scientists at NASA discovered seven Earth-sized planets just about 40 light-years away from us, three of them are situated in a habitable zone. Findings like this one make one wonder if this means that we’re a step closer to contacting intelligent life elsewhere.

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Do Not Be Afraid of Making Mistakes When Learning Chinese

Generally, anyone Mandarin(普通话pǔtōnghuà) learners know that making blunders(错误cuòwù) can be a common thing with regards to studying this language. As a matter of fact, if you are not making errors – be they grammatical, tonal(声调的shēngdiào de), or – every single time you open your mouth to speak, you're either not attempting very hard or you knew Chinese in a preceding life! As somebody who spent years studying Chinese the 'incorrect' way just before lastly figuring out a greater, more efficient method to study the language, I'd argue that making errors isn't just a good thing, but that it is only by making blunders that a foreign student can ever start to work towards accurate(精确的jīngquè de) conversational fluency.However,do not be afraid of making mistakes when learing Chinese.

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Happy Chinese S1:Daily Life Chinese 快乐汉语:日常生活汉语 第7集 我爱京剧

Happy Chinese(快乐汉语) is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. In Season I, we will focus on daily life Chinese. It will helps the foreigners not only just know what to say, but also how to use it. 快乐汉语系列一《日常生活汉语》主要教授在中国家庭生活及学校生活中的日常用语。我们将以情景剧的方式帮助大家理解和掌握这些句子。

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Growing up with Chinese Lesson 100

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:
偷懒 tōulǎn:to be lazy
亲手 qīnshǒu:with one’s own hands
吵架 chǎojià:to have a row
宴席 yànxí:banquet
通讯 tōngxùn:communication
好你个 hǎonǐgè:to express the speaker’s extreme disapproval of someone
也罢,也罢 yěbà,yěbà:used to stress or emphasize the conclusion that follows the frase
话是这么说,可 huà shì zhème shuō,kě:to disagree with or disapprove of whatever the other person said
天下没有不散的宴席 tiānxià méiyǒu bú sàn de yànxí:There are no banquets on earth that don’t disperse.

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