Past, Present and Future Tenses in Mandarin Chinese
May 27, 2016 - 42 Comments
We’re back for another episode of Two White Chicks in China! This week our question comes from Mandi in the USA, who asks us “What are massage parlors like in China?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode We Talk… 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
We’re back for another episode of Two White Chicks in China! This week our question comes from Rainy Woods in the UK, who asks us “How do you make local friends?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode We Talk… Read More
We always love hearing from people out there that are studying Chinese, or live in China and want to share their stories with us. Some of you might have already listened to our spin-off podcast, the Two White Chicks in China, which is hosted by Nora and I. Each week we answer and discuss a… Read More
We’re back for another episode of Two White Chicks in China! This week our question comes from Marsha in Wisconsin (AKA, Nora’s Mom), who asks us “What happens when people pass away in China?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This… Read More
In this article, we’re going to look at two related topics: location and directions in Chinese. First, I’m going to introduce some basic location words and then some sentence patterns that you can use to describe where objects are, if an object exists and locations as description. The second part of the article will focus… Read More