Past, Present and Future Tenses in Mandarin Chinese
May 27, 2016 - 42 Comments
Last week in the Written Chinese Office… We had a small update for the Written Chinese Dictionary for Android. Don’t forget to update your app! Written Chinese Dictionary mobile app v1.9.4 released to GooglePlay Chinese learning materials and blog posts can now be easily found in the menu Optimised UI of My Flashcard List Screen, now you… Read More
We’re back for another episode of Two White Chicks in China! This week our question comes from Jessica from Sweden, who asks us “What’s an average day like for the TWCC?” 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
For the last few weeks in the WCC Office… We had a minor update for the Written Chinese Dictionary for iOS. Don’t forget to update your app in the App store! Written Chinese Dictionary mobile app v1.9.3 Some minor bug fixes We had a little holiday for International Labor Day (Yay!) We had a tiny… Read More
We’ve already looked at some of the different greetings in Chinese, so now it’s time to learn some commonly used farewells. You may have already come across the transliteration ‘bye bye’ that is used frequently in China. However, there are many other useful ways to say goodbye that you can learn too. I have often… Read More
We’re back for another episode of Two White Chicks in China! This week our question comes from Mandi (one of our #1 fans) from the USA, who asks us “What’s the ‘rent-a-foreigner’ business like?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This… Read More
Pinyin: An Introduction Pinyin 拼音 (pīn yīn), is the romanized translation of Chinese characters. Pinyin was introduced after a language reform during the 1950s, instigated by Zhou Enlai 周恩来 (zhōu ēn lái). He believed that a phonetic system was necessary in order for people to learn how to pronounce Chinese characters. Zhou Enlai worked alongside linguist, Zhou… Read More