Mandarin Learning Basic

Measure Words for Chinese Mandarin
One of the difficult grammar for me when I learn mandarin. In English structure we can see the sample like ‘a pair of leg’, ‘three bunches of bananas’, etc. How to use the correct measures words? The different measure words are used in different kinds of object. The most commonly using […]

One of the grammar using in Mandarin is Particles. Like in the English to performs the changing form of the verb, it’s usually using adverbs. Particles typically occur in the neutral tone. In this article, we will study three different kinds of particles: structural, interrogative, and aspectual.
Indicate Possesion
In English Structure, we can add the possessive […]

If in English consist of three pattern of the verbs, in Mandarin, however, only one form of each verb exist. So we need not to memorizing the ‘conjugation table’, but the word order is very important in Chinese sentences. Word order is often the only indication in Mandarin to tell, so to speak, who is […]

Yeah, that’s right. It is about another pronouncing for uu, but it’s represented by vocal u only. We can see in English that use latin character. The character j and z have similar pronouncing, that’s like for the s and x character. In mandarin language, if the word beginning in j or x, then with […]

If in English, we just use a, i, u, e, o and the combination for vocal. But in Mandarin there is some character can’t be represented by them, like女. This character not spell in ‘ni’ or ‘nu’ but ‘nuu(3)’ (I found from some mandarin language software), how can to spell it right? I don’t know […]

The love words 爱 is a sample for this topic, that’s spell ‘ai(4)’. It is a verb if uses itself, in mandarin, this word have a many different kind of use. We can combinate this word with other to become another meaning. Ok let’s see some sample:
可爱 these words spell ‘khe(3) ai(4)’ have a meaning […]