SENSIBLE CHINESE · THE ARCHIVE
Phrases
I’m happy to be able to bring you another short beginner’s lesson courtesy of That’s Mandarin. Today we’ll be learning some common carnivorous meat eating words (or just animal words if you are a vegetarian! Sorry!) That’s...
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Classical Chinese
One of the most common Chinese characters inherited from Classical Chinese is 之. Mastering this character can unlock many difficult idioms, newspaper articles, and Chinese literary texts. 之 is also used to express percentages and fractions. Understanding...
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Today I’m happy to be able to bring you a short beginner’s lesson courtesy of That’s Mandarin. We’ll be introducing Chinese phrases character by character and then combining everything together into a whole. Today we’ll be...
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Over the last few weeks we’ve had a couple of articles from Outlier Linguistics about their upcoming Chinese dictionary based on the use of functional components to better understand and remember Chinese characters. Some big news: 1. Outlier Linguistics...
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Outlier Linguistics
Unlocking Chinese Characters with Functional Components – Outlier Linguistics Explains This is a guest post from the folks over at Outlier Linguistics. If you aren’t following them yet then definitely check out their work. They are working...
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Learning to Communicate in Chinese: The Dos and Don’ts Learning any language is for the majority of us about using it to communicate in a certain, or a number of capacities or situations. For example one person may wish to learn colloquial phrases...
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Habits/Motivation
When I tell people I am fluent in Chinese, they usually respond by saying that they have always wanted to learn a language, but that they are just naturally bad at languages or don’t have the “language gene.” Many of these people had a negative...
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Being able to voice your opinion in Chinese allows you to have deeper conversations with people. There are many ways to express your point of view in Chinese other than just the plain 我觉得 wǒ juédé and 我认为 wǒ rènwéi, which gets repetitive...
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