Mandarin/Chinese number has two units that English doesn’t have (or at least, it has unique words for these units whilst English describes them with combinations of other units. These are:
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Let's learn Mandarin Fractions 我们一起学习中文的分数
Mandarin fractions has a lot of ways to say. So today we can learn some Mandarin Fractions.Parts of a Whole
Divisional fractions and percentages are stated as “XX parts of YY,” with YY being the whole.
Tones in Chinese
Chinese is a tonal language. All Chinese languages (or “dialects”) have tones. Although tonal languages may sound exotic, there is
Let's learn Resultative Verb Endings 我们一起学习汉语中的结果动词
Resultative Verb Endings is a class of verb suffixes in Mandarin Chinese. They are used with Functive Verbs (Action Verbs) to show the outcome of that action.There are two basic types of Resultative Verb Endings (RVE) – those that show the actual result of an action, and those that show the possible result of an action.
Practical Chinese
The Chinese languages not only have tones, they also exhibit, to a greater or lesser extent, a phenomenon called tone
Chinese language vocabulary 汉语词汇 31 Words For Idiot In Chinese
It seems I’m a bit obssessed with synonyms.Just for fun, here is a list of 31 ways to say “idiot” in Mandarin, ranging from most common to least common.
Chinese language vocabulary 汉语词汇 8 Words for Popular in Mandarin
I’ve often pondered about how many words really exist in Mandarin for “popular” and so I’ve done my research and come up with what seems to be a pretty definitive list. For the purposes of this post, there is a distinction made between “popular” (known by many people) and universal (“affecting everyone/everything”), the latter of which is commonly translated as 普遍 pǔbiàn or 普及 pǔjí. I also left out 大众的 dàzhòng de and 民间的 mínjiān de, which are ideally conceptualised as “used by the people”, a little different to the essential meaning of “popular” in my opinion, but worthy of mentioning nonetheless. And now, onto the list…
Asking Yes / No Questions in Mandarin Chinese
There are two ways to ask yes / no questions in Mandarin: with the “ma” particle, or by using a positive / negative sentence structure.
Wendi Deng and her remarkable life 邓文迪
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Most Common 同音词 (Word-Homophones) in Mandarin
I say “word-homophones” deliberately, since I’m referring specifically to 同音词 (homophones made up of multi-character words), not 同音字 (“character-homophones”, when two characters have the same pronunciation).
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