Chinese is the world’s most widely spoken language. You will meet native Chinese speakers all over the world, as the language has over one billion speakers. Why should you learn Chinese? That’s because it’s a surefire way to increase your career opportunities. China will play a significant role in world events in the future, so … Read more
Chinese is arguably one of the most complicated languages to learn. However, it is actually an interesting language to learn. That is why it is the most spoken language in the world. Now, around 1.3 billion people in the world speak Chinese. The Chinese language dated back 6000 years ago. Its characters have evolved from … Read more
Nowadays, Chinese has been learned by over 40 million foreigners worldwide. Not only that, an expected 100 million foreigners will be learning Chinese within the next few years. Why there are so many people get interested in Chinese? It is because Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese will help you … Read more
Chinese is quite challenging yet a fascinating language to learn. More people learn Chinese today as it helps in daily conversation or education. Well, it is getting popular now. Today, before we dive into our topic, let’s have some fun. “我吃了饭了。” Look at this sentence. Are you thinking why there are two “了” in one … Read more
Chinese is a quite challenging yet interesting language to learn. It is spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers and getting more popular. Many people find it useful to learn as it can be used to communicate with Chinese people and it helps us in education. However, it is also difficult to learn because … Read more
Is there a “Chinese alphabet”? In short: no. The structure of Indo-European languages based on the Latin alphabet means that we very often implicitly look for equivalents of the alphabet in other languages. And while in Arabic or Korean we can talk about the alphabet (understood as a set of phonetical characters used to create … Read more
How do we say “to be” in Chinese? Without this most basic verb, we cannot really communicate: it is usually the very first verb we get to know when learning a new language. As it usually happens, there are many ways to express presence in Chinese, because it is an old language, very rich in … Read more
“Why” seems to be a very simple word, yet Chinese is such a complex language that it has many ways of saying it. The biggest difference here is between spoken and written Chinese. Since you have already started learning this language, you might have heard about it already: Chinese has a very rich formal language … Read more
When you have a conversation with Chinese people, you may find that the structures of the sentences they use are quite flexible. There are many kinds of structural relationships in modern Chinese sentences. A single word can form a sentence, in addition to the sentence composed of a single word, a specific sentence is always … Read more
