I previously wrote an article that focused on sentence patterns for beginners, 10 Essential Chinese Sentence Patterns Every Beginner Should Know. Hopefully, you’ve covered those 10 patterns, and it’s time to move on to more intermediate sentence patterns. 1. 是……的(de) to emphasize 是 (shì) can be omitted from the sentence. The phrase in between 是… Read More
Did you know there was a 5th tone in Mandarin Chinese? Many Chinese learners just refer to this tone as having ‘no tone’ or being ‘neutral’. However, this ‘no tone’ actually has rules that can change the way a character or bigram is spoken. The way the 5th Chinese tone is used in spoken Chinese… Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! If you don’t have time to read this post now, you can and read it later! Unlike in English, the form of a Chinese verb never changes, regardless of whether it is present, past, or future tense. For example, whereas in English the verb ‘eat’ will… Read More