This is the second part in our no frills series of vocabulary and phrase lists especially for beginners of the Chinese language. You can read Part 1 of the Epic List of Basic Chinese Phrases for Beginners here. Each Chinese character, bigram or phrase is linked to our Online Dictionary. Click on the red links… Read More
We have already covered several Chinese conjunctions in our first article, And, Or and But: Chinese Conjunctions Part 1. The following article covers three more conjunctions: causal, conditional and progressive. Click on the red links to see a full breakdown of all the sentences and Chinese characters throughout the article. 4. 因果关系 (yīn guǒ guān xì) Causal Conjunctions Commonly… Read More
This is the first part in our no frills series of vocabulary and phrase lists especially for beginners of the Chinese language. Each Chinese character, bigram or phrase is linked to our Online Dictionary. Click on the red links to see more information about the character, including pronunciation audio and stroke animations to help you… Read More
Conjunctions are words that connect phrases and clauses together to form a sentence. In English, some examples of conjunction words are ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘if’ and ‘because’. These words are very similar within the Chinese language, but often follow specific rules and patterns for them to make sense. Below is the first half of our lesson… Read More
Personal Pronouns in Chinese 人称代词 (rén chēng dài cí) One of the first words you probably need to learn is ‘I’ 我 (wǒ). Although in Chinese, you can often get away with missing off the 我 (wǒ) ‘I’ in spoken Chinese, it is important to use it within written Chinese. The word for ‘you’ is 你 (nǐ) and can also… Read More
The 在 (zài) character has several different uses, and since it’s a character that will appear soon after you begin learning Chinese, it’s a good idea to get yourself accustomed to its different functions. Most of them have to do with location, as primarily, 在 (zài) is used to express the phrase ‘to be located…’… Read More