What Kinds of Chinese Dialogues Would Confuse You?
Culture shock is a huge barrier in international communication. Sometimes, it becomes a laughingstock in daily life. Let’s take a look at the foreigners’ “complains” on a social website, and …
Read MoreThe difference between “先生” Vs“老师”| “先生” 和“老师”的不同
“先生” (xiān sheng)Vs“老师”(xiānsheng) If you want to have a good result in Chinese studying, you need to recognize some synonyms. You may hear Chinese people call a teacher “先生(xiān sheng)” …
Read MoreThe classical six arts–Propriety(礼 lǐ)
The classical six arts are aristocratic education system in Zhou Dynasty which include 礼lǐ (propriety), 乐yuè(music), 射shè (archery), 御yù (riding), 书shū (writing) and 数shù (math). “礼lǐ ”(propriety)is the foundation …
Read MoreTop 10 Chinese Cultural Symbols
As the biggest developing country in the world and the popular travel destination for numerous foreigners, China has a long history of more than 5000 years, which brings up the …
Read More“感动” VS”激动”(gǎn dòng / jī dòng)
Both 感动 and 激动 can show a person’s change of emotion after he/she is stimulated. They all have two structures. 1 A 使B 感动/ A 使B 激动 他的话使我非常感动——-What he …
Read More指鹿为马—-point at a deer, call it a horse
You may know “马鹿” in Japanse is stupid in English. But do you know this phrase from a Chinese idiom “指鹿为马”? 指鹿为马(zhǐ lù wéi mǎ)——-point at a deer, call it …
Read More怎么分辨 “的” “地” “得” How to distinguish “的” “地” “得” in Chinese?
This is a big problem in the most of foreigners’ Chinese language studying. Actually, they are not so complex, all you should do is to remember such three sentence patterns. …
Read More“不”和”没”的区别 The difference between “不”and”没”
In Chinese learning, you may see these two characters very often. “不” and”没”. They are the meaning of “not” in English but have some little difference in their using. 1 …
Read More购物清单系列——mandarin words list
Nowadays more and more foreigners like to live in China. A useful shopping list can help you a lot in the daily life. Chinlingo special list for you. You can …
Read MoreMandarin alphabet
基础知识——basic knowledge 1) 拼音的结构 Pinyin is made by initial, vowel and some syllables that you should recognize and read as a whole. 23 initials(声母) :b p m f d t …
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