We previously posted a set of questions and answers that would help with making friends in Chinese. Now it’s time to go and out with them and have some fun! Below is another list of useful phrases and words that you can use to arrange to meet and go out with your new found friends!… Read More
Following on from our previous vocabulary lists for beginners, this list of questions and answers will help you get started making Chinese friends. Amongst the Q&As you will also find useful phrases to ask someone to speaker slower, or to repeat a sentence. These dialogues are invaluable when first learning Chinese, as they will teach… Read More
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
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
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
To get into the festive spirit, we thought you might like to learn some holiday words in Chinese. Christmas is becoming a popular festival to celebrate here in China, there are Christmas trees, tinsel and even carol singing! Below, are 8 holiday words to learn, complete with example sentences and links to our dictionary. First,… Read More