Archive for November, 2008

Learn To Speak Mandarin Chinese

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Title
Since it is polite to call someone with his/her title, therefore we cannot ignore this no matter which language we are learning. Like most other languages in the world, Chinese Language has its own way of calling title too. Sometimes, it is consider rude if calling someone without his/her title in [...]

Learn Mandarin Online – 5W1H

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5W 1H
It is important to study the most useful words 5W 1H when you are learning Chinese Language. By knowing these 6 Chinese characters, you are able to ask simple question and start simple conversation in Chinese Language.

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Learn Mandarin Online – To Be

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To Be (am is are)
In Chinese Language, the “To Be” is used after pronoun to complete the sentence, this is same as in English Language. However, unlike English, there is only 1 Chinese Character to represent all the To Be in English. Or in other word, “am, is and are” are [...]

Online Chinese Course – Pronoun

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Pronoun
It is important to study “Pronoun” in the first place if you want to learn any languages, including Chinese Language. Without knowing

Pronoun in Chinese is quite similar to English, in fact, it is a little bit easier compare to English, as its pronunciation for “He, She, It” are the same, called [...]

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Online Chinese Course – Basic Greeting
Greeting (Basic)
It is always good and polite to start a conversation with greeting, it doesn’t matter which language we are using and what people that we are dealing with. To be able to build a good relationship with Chinese, “Greeting” must not be ignored. In fact, it is never difficult [...]

Online Chinese Course – Punctuation and Spacing

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Punctuation and Spacing
Unlike English, Chinese sentences have no spaces and punctuation marks. Basically, there is no space between subjects, objects and verbs, all are join together:
Exp :

It is wrong to write Chinese sentences with spaces in between:

Basic Sentence Structure

Like English, Chinese sentence structure is always started with Subject, follow by Verb [...]

Learning To Speak Chinese – Consonants

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Consonants

There are total 23 consonants in Chinese Language. These consonants are not able to stand alone to form a Chinese character, instead they must combine with a main vowel, or a compound vowel, or a nasal vowel to build a Chinese character.
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Consonant  + Main Vowel :
b  +  a  = ba       [...]