Six Tips for Learning Chinese Characters By: Teacher Henry Mastering Chinese characters has always been one of the biggest hurdles when learning Chinese. If you do a quick internet search about learning Chinese characters, you will find many articles complaining
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Why Are Chinese Characters So Hard? Hello everyone, Teacher Steve here. I know many of you have seen our “scary” system of writing and think, “Why did they make this horrible system? There’s no way I can learn it!” Haha!
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“Should I learn Chinese characters?” “What if don’t learn Chinese characters?” “I can use pinyin to learn Chinese, so can I stop learning characters?” During my more than 15-year Chinese language teaching experience, I often heard these questions. And my
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As you may know, it’s essential to eat a variety of vegetables to stay healthy. Fresh vegetables contain lots of water-soluble vitamins, which can help us maintain healthy cells, organs, and the immune system. In addition, vegetables can provide us
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Pssssst. We want to tell you a secret. It’s big. We want to tell you the easy way to learn Chinese or any other language… Just kidding. There is no secret. Just like any skill, learning a language takes repeated
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For every Chinese beginner, one of the most important choices is whether to learn Traditional or Simplified Chinese. Although they both belong to the same spoken language, the two are different in appearance and their practical usage. What are Traditional
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People from different countries each have their traditional attire. Japanese have the kimono and the Scottish have their kilts. China also has traditional clothing, which is called ‘Hanfu’( 汉服hàn fú). The name stems from the Han nationality, who are the dominant
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Mid-Autumn Festival,中秋节 (Zhōng Qiū Jié) as it’s known in China, is the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar. Each year, it falls in either September or October on the solar calendar. The Festival has a long history
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Mandarin Chinese is very different from English. You may have heard that it is impossible to learn and that there are far too many characters to master. There will be some struggles, certainly, but the potential difficulties can be overcome
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The Dragon is the most significant symbol of China, and Chinese may refer to themselves as “descendants of the dragon.” This may sound quite odd to Western people as dragons are seen as evil and unlucky in western culture. Therefore,
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