First of all, we should keep in mind: all children love books by nature. Children love to read Chinese books if we pay attention. The reading journey usually starts early when parents read books to their kids. Gradually children learn to read together with their parents, to read with friends, to finally read independently. The […]
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A common issue a lot of Chinese language learners face is how to retain the vocabulary and all the rules. It seems to be so difficult to remember all those characters or learning points even if it might have seemed to be easy at the beginning. Unfortunately it is an unavoidable issue for all the new things
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Like all the other languages, Chinese language can be broken down to units. The smallest uint in Chinese is characters. Characters form Chinese words or phrases. Combinations of Chinese words and/or phrases make sentences. From there we can compose paragraphs and articles. So the logical solution to learn Chinese is to learn Chinese characters, the
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For most children around the world, summer has already started. In some countries, summer vacation is about 6 weeks; in others, it is 2-month long. What a blessing for many of us to have such a long free time! However, having it wide open can be a bummer. We need to have some sort of
The school year 2017-2018 is nearly to its end. At this time of the year, both teachers and students have lots to do. A major task is to wrap the school year up well: everything a child needs to know should be covered; Another big task is to reflect, celebrate and plan for the next
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Do you know which animals make these sounds: Meow, woof and chirp? Surely you know the answers. The animals are cats, dogs and birds. What sounds do these animals make in Chinese? Cats make 喵喵(miāo miāo)，dogs 汪汪(wāngwāng) and birds 叽叽(jī ji). Do Animals Sound Different in Chinese Sounds of animals are a form of onomatopoeia, the
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In this Chinese vocabulary study guide, we are about to talk about 要 (yào), which basically means “want”. As an auxiliary verb, it often comes before main verbs to help express a tone . 要 has several meanings which sometimes can only be determined by the context in which it is used. Expressing “Want” with 要
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中国话，”Chinese Language”, an interesting title for a song. You are right. It is indeed quite puzzling if you only look at the title. However, if you listen to the Chinese Language song, you will understand why it has such a title. Chinese language song starts with a well-known Chinese tong twister biǎn dān kuān bǎn
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It is interesting to visit farms, especially for children. Farm animals such as chicken, cows and dogs are great fun for children to watch and sometimes even to play with. Because children love farm animals and farm animals can be found in any farm, kids usually find it easy to learn the animal words in
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As we all know, it’s not easy to practise spoken Chinese outside China. The lack of the language environment and input is the biggest issue. Lessons taught in the classroom cannot include all scenarios and the class time is also limited. One needs more practice to ensure the pronunciation and the flow are correctly spoken.
We use Smiley Emoji in our conversations all the time. Do you know about their meanings? If yes, do you know the meaning of these commonly used smiley emojis in Chinese? Let’s have a look! Grin 开心 Kāixīn Laughing with tears 笑到哭 Xiào dào kū Yum yum 口水流下来了 Kǒushuǐ liú xiàláile Cool 酷毙了 Kù bìle
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You know the famous English tongue twister “She sells seashells on the seashore”, right? Try to read it several times, how do you feel? TONGUE TWISTER HELPS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING A very good way of learning a language is via tongue twisters. Tongue twisters can really train the tongues to twist to make the right
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Time for dinner! I am thirsty. I want to have a glass of milk. Sentences like these are easy, but extremely useful as they are used at meal almost everyday. Here let’s have a look at 30 Chinese sentences which are often used with children during meal time. [Tweet “30 Chinese sentences to be used
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We are all familiar with the preposition words in English such as “in, at, after, beside etc”. In Chinese there are a group of special words that are put after the location. Instead of being called “preposition” words, they are called “nouns of locality” (方位词 , fāngwèi cí）. 方位词 (fāngwèi cí)are nouns showing direction and
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For languages, the history of writing systems progress from pictorial representations, to logograms and eventually to the alphabets. Chinese characters (汉字Hànzì）are all logograms. Based on how they are formed or derived, Chinese characters are traditionally classified into 6 types. In detail, they are pictographs, simple ideographs, compound ideographs, phono-semantic compounds, rebus characters and derivative cognates.
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How do you go to school? On foot, by car, by bike, or by bus? 你怎么去学校？步行，坐小汽车，自行车，还是公共汽车？Bus, car, bike, ship, airplane and more… we use different means of transportation every day. Common means of transportation are relevant, easy, and interesting for young learners. Here is a list of the common transports in Chinese. Transports in Chinese
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在 is a common word in Chinese used to express existence in a place, a location and actions in progress. Expressing Existence in a Place When used to express existence in a place, 在 can be translated into “to be at” or ” to be in” in English. The sentence structure is Subj. + 在
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Christmas is coming… After it, the new year of 2018 is following… Holiday season has already started. Aren’t you busy at preparing gifts and writing greeting cards? If you need some gift inspiration, check out Ideas of Gifts with Chinese Elements ; if you want to write greeting cards in Chinese, I have some phrases and
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Christmas is coming. There is nothing better than singing into the holiday season! Let’s learn a Christmas song: JINGLE BELLS in Chinese! Líng er xiǎng dīngdāng 铃儿响叮当 Hēi, chōngpò dà fēng xuě 嘿，冲破大风雪 Wǒmen zuò zài xuěqiāo shàng 我们坐在雪橇上 Kuài bēnchíguò tiányě 快奔驰过田野 Wǒmen huānxiào yòu gēchàng 我们欢笑又歌唱 Niánqīng de huǒbànmen 年轻的伙伴们 Jīngshén duō shuǎnglǎng
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On special occasions like New Year Day, Christmas, graduation day, birthdays… or just a random, ordinary day to cheer up the people we care, we want to give out a gift – maybe small, maybe big — but unique gifts with some Chinese elements. It is not always easy to come up with ideas. Isn’t
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