汉字（hàn zì ), Chinese characters, are of thousands of years history. It is interesting, esp. for children, to find out the origin of them since they have changed over the years. Here is a video showing the evolution of some common Chinese characters.
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It is very important to know the basic Chinese sentences in order to conduct conversations in Chinese. Here are 30 sentences you can learn to start dialogues in Chinese. 能耽误你一点时间吗？ Néng dānwù nǐ yīdiǎn shíjiān ma? Have you got a minute? 有笔借我吗？Yǒu bǐ jiè wǒ ma Have you got a pen I could
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How is the weather? In Chinese, we say 天气怎么样？Tiānqì zěnme yàng? Is it sunny? Is it rainy? Is it little cloudy? Is it snowy? Is it windy? Is it foggy? 是晴天吗？ Shì qíng tiān ma? 是下雨吗？ Shì xià yǔ ma? 是多云吗？ Shì duōyún ma? 是下雪吗？ Shì xià xuě ma? 是刮风吗？ Shì guā fēng ma? 是多雾吗？
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When we introduce ourselves, the countries we come from and our nationalities are important. To say nationalities in Chinese, we get to learn the names of countries first. The Chinese word for nation/country/kingdom is 国家（guójiā).国(guó) is used many times to indicate a country. How to Say China in Chinese? China is called “中国”（Zhōngguó）in Chinese. It literally
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How to say Year, Month and Date in Mandarin Chinese? Are they very different from their equivalents in English? Are they difficult? These are common questions Chinese learners ask. First of all, year, month and date are easy in Mandarin Chinese If one knows the basic numbers in Chinese, she or he can easily conjugate
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Compared to English, weekdays or Counting weeks in Chinese are extremely easy. As long as the basic Chinese numbers are learned, it is as easy as a piece of cake. Weekdays in Chinese To learn the weekdays, we first need to know that a week in China starts with Monday instead of Sunday. So the
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Greetings are important for all of us. It is useful to know some greeting phrases in various languages even if we do not know the languages. So even if you don’t want to learn Chinese, it is good to know some phrases to say hello and goodbye. And they are quite easy. Here are 7
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Numbers in Chinese are comparatively easy. Once a person learns 1-10, it is easy for him/her to learn 11-99. What Can We Do with the Chinese Numbers In Chinese, numbers one to ten are the most basic ones to learn. Once they are mastered, it is easy to move forward: – We can count higher Many
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Like English, there are many punctuation marks to organize and clarify the Chinese language. There are some similar punctuation marks as well as some different marks. So, what are the Chinese punctuation marks? In fact, we can categorize the Chinese punctuation marks into two groups: the ones that are similar to the western punctuation marks
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As China is gaining more and more power, Mandarin Chinese as a language is gaining more and more attention. So it is not surprising to read the news from UK on Sept 07, titled as “More than 5,000 children to learn Mandarin as part of the £10m scheme to make Britain more competitive globally“. What
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Summer has come! For my kids, Summer vacation officially starts today! The kids are busy at end-of-year parties. Soon families will go on vacation — the sun, the beach and lots of fun! Isn’t it a good idea to get to know all the summer vocabulary in Chinese so to spice the season up with some hot Chinese summer
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If you ask a Chinese learner, “what is the most difficult part when you learn Chinese? ” Most likely, you will hear “Chinese characters” and “Chinese Pronunciation” as the answers. To learn Chinese characters, it takes time, patience and a lot of exercises. To get the pronunciation right, it also takes time and a lot
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There was a baby owl who, unlike other owls, is afraid of darkness. This worried his parents because it is owls’ duty to watch out the forest at night. So they took the baby owl to the witch asking for advice. The advice is that the baby owl has to get a courage grass by
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Little projects make language learning fun. Chinese learning can be so much fun with the aid of technology. Here I would like to show you how to use Adobe Voice, an app available for iPads and iPhones, to create some easy projects for Chinese learning. Adobe Voice is a wonderful storytelling app which enables children,
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Over time, Chinese characters are developed based on several strategies. Some basic Chinese characters were originally pictograms, or pictographs (象形, literally meaning “form imitation). They symbolize objects or express meanings iconically. Pictogram Chinese characters are easy to recognize as the objects represented in the symbols can be seen as soon as the meaning is revealed.
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Do you know that some popular Chinese songs have their English versions too? Sofia Kallgren, the Swedish singer, re-sings several Chinese songs in English. Life is one of them. It is a song sung by Ruoying Liu, named “LATER”, which was popular in China for a long time. Let’s listen to the English version first,
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Picture books is a great way to introduce reading to children. There are many excellent English picture books now available in Chinese. Rosie’s Walk is one of them. This is a very simple (yet surprisingly sophisticated, from a humorous point of view) story. A chick named Rosie decides to take a walk one day.
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Chinese New Year, or Chinese Spring Festival is the biggest celebration for Chinese people. People travel from everywhere in the country back home to get together with families to celebrate it. Here I would like to share with you a 3-part series of documentary videos from BBC on Chinese New Year. It is a really
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Valentine’s Day is coming. It is not a really special day in China traditionally, but it is becoming more and more popular among young people even in China. Flowers and chocolate are good gifts for the loved ones. Valentine’s Day cards are essential together with gifts. In sprite of its increasing popularity, unlike in USA
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Feb 08 starts the Chinese New Year of Monkey. Monkies are lively, smart and sociable, so are the people born in the year. Here I would like to list some simple craft ideas for children to celebrate its arrival. 1. Toilet Paper Roll Monkey 1 What you need Old Toilet Paper Rolls Dark Brown Paint
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