SENSIBLE CHINESE · THE ARCHIVE
Phrases
I’m happy to be able to bring you another short beginner’s lesson courtesy of That’s Mandarin. That’s Mandarin have kindly provided these beautiful pictures to introduce some really important Chinese characters. Each graphic has...
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Pronunciation
If you get the distinction between u and ü (explained previously in this article) then the distinction between Zh, Ch, Sh and J, Q, X becomes easy. Without understanding the distinction Chinese pronunciation can often seem insurmountable. This state...
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Pronunciation
Note: See the bottom of this article to learn how to get free human feedback on how good your u and ü are. Very useful! Boy oh boy this one is a doozy. That said, if you nail the difference between the u and ü sounds in Chinese then a whole bunch of...
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Pronunciation
Don’t get me wrong, pinyin is a god-send for early Chinese language learning. You can use pinyin to get up and running and communicating in basic Chinese much faster than if you had to rely on characters. However, the fact that pinyin looks like English...
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Phrases
I’m happy to be able to bring you another short beginner’s lesson courtesy of That’s Mandarin. Today we’ll be using a few key verbs to create some short phrases like 我爱看书；我看书；我爱买书；爱好；看好 That’s...
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